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Alien_12

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Yorktown class carriers
« on: May 20, 2011, 10:10:36 AM »
Hi, gents! I don't know if anyone is making them but I didn't notice ANY Yorktown class carrier mod, so I assume everyone forgot them. But please, let someone make them! Those carriers were the most important ones of the war (well, at least one) and they are SOOO forgotten and ignored. :(
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Re: Yorktown class carriers
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2011, 11:31:33 AM »
Nope, not forgotten.  It's been requested several times, but no takers yet.
Good to keep the request alive though. :)
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Re: Yorktown class carriers
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2011, 04:15:22 AM »
This deserves to be requested again and again until it gets done.
Needs to be built from scratch though, so its no quick job, if its to be done properly.
Great shame that it was not in the original Pacific Fighters version.

Ashe
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Re: Yorktown class carriers
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2011, 09:01:21 AM »
That's exactly my opinion, Ashe. I think these should be flagships of the new shippack.
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Re: Yorktown class carriers
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2011, 02:00:14 PM »
If someone does wish to make the Yorktown Class carrier, I did find a very good blueprint set (the original plans), located here.
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Re: Yorktown class carriers
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2011, 02:38:44 PM »
I agree that these carriers are the biggest hole in the Pacific theater. Here is at least one of the previous request threads. If I had the knowledge, I would already be working on this.

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,15080.msg161312.html#msg161312
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Re: Yorktown class carriers
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2011, 08:23:27 PM »
Do you guys remember Enterprise? She was the only carrier that survived the entire war. Also the first carrier to send planes to pearl harbor after Japanese attack, AND first nightfighting carrier equipped with night fighting hell cats
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Re: Yorktown class carriers
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2011, 06:42:29 PM »
Quote from: Wildchild on July 06, 2011, 08:23:27 PM
Do you guys remember Enterprise? She was the only carrier that survived the entire war. Also the first carrier to send planes to pearl harbor after Japanese attack, AND first nightfighting carrier equipped with night fighting hell cats

The Saratoga also survived the war, but she was a bit jinxed and was often out of battle being repaired- she didn't have a good relationship with Japanese subs! 

What makes me so mad is the bean counting, paper pushing bureaucrats in the Navy, who had her destroyed in atomic bomb tests and the Enterprise scrapped!  A couple of our most historic ships treated like garbage by men who never came withing thousands of miles of a battle!
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Re: Yorktown class carriers
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2011, 07:02:05 PM »
Every man who served on board her was allowed to take home a 2ft piece of her hull, so small parts of her are still out there
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Re: Yorktown class carriers
« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2011, 11:20:14 AM »
Main hurdle to producing a good model is lack of available detailed plans.
The copies of shipyard drawings linked by Boosh are useful but lack a lot of essential model making information.
The best available, at a price, are probably through http://floatingdrydock.com/

All the models I have made so far have been based on Profile Morskie plans.
These excellent publications are relatively low cost and cover all of the details.
Unfortunately they are yet to do a Yorktown Class vessel.

If I ever get around to doing a PTO subject the Yorktown Class would be high on my list of priorities.

Ashe
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Re: Yorktown class carriers
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2011, 12:46:44 PM »
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Re: Yorktown class carriers
« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2011, 12:46:05 AM »


Found this on the Google 3D warehouse. Will it suffice?
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