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Just wanted to share my latest purchase:

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It's a modern USN carrier base made by Hobby Masters. This is a Hong Kong company that makes die-cast models and also have a small range of accessories for these... including not only the base but some crews and tow tractors. My base is 1/72 but a 1/48 one is available too.

The base is a prepainted single plastic piece. It's really quite light, and the fake wooden edges don't look that great.

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The tie-down points are not bad and have raised impressions of the steel parts at the bottom of the wells. They are prepainted in white and this looks so-so but I can see it will be easy to improve them with some steel paint and black ink for the recesses.

Some weathering will also be useful for a more realistic looking base.

The deck section itself is 270 X 200 mm, so a Tomcat will not fit too well if it has spread wings. With the wings in oversweep position it should fit just fine. Here's a pic of my Crusader on the base, showing the size.

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The one good thing of this base is its price: mine costed Euro 10, equivalent to around £ 8.50. It might not be perfect, but it's cheap !

Edited by Giorgio N
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