Which USS Ticonderoga CVS-14 carrier?

[Michael Morris]

Hi

I'd like to make a model of the carrier USS Ticonderoga CVS-14 picking up the Apollo 17 command module in 1972

I'm looking for something between 1:500 and 1:1000 scale.  There appear to be an offerings from Atlantis in 1/700 scale.

Is this the only model, or are there others or can another Essex/Hancock class carrier be converted?

 

Thanks.

[EwenS]

 

On 08/07/2021 at 21:12, Michael Morris said:

Hi

I'd like to make a model of the carrier USS Ticonderoga CVS-14 picking up the Apollo 17 command module in 1972

I'm looking for something between 1:500 and 1:1000 scale.  There appear to be an offerings from Atlantis in 1/700 scale.

Is this the only model, or are there others or can another Essex/Hancock class carrier be converted?

 

Thanks.

 

I've just seen this and see no one has replied.

There is a summary here of which Essex class ships underwent which post-war modifications. This should give you a starting point. Just watch for the location of the starboard side deck edge lift which varied in some SCB-125 conversions depending on what had happened before.

https://www.seaforces.org/usnships/cv/Essex-class.htm

 

And you will find plenty of photos here.

https://www.navsource.org/archives/02idx.htm

[Michael Morris]

Thanks.  Those are very useful links.  I've managed to pick up a Revell USS Wasp kit at a sensible price, so I may build it as is and change the subject to a Gemini recovery.  I've still not decided.  

It would be useful to understand the differences between Wasp and Ticonderoga before making up my mind.

[Rob S]

On 9/26/2021 at 4:01 AM, Michael Morris said:

It would be useful to understand the differences between Wasp and Ticonderoga before making up my mind.

 

Original differences basically summarised in it’s Wikipedia entry : 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ticonderoga_(CV-14)

 

The modernisation details are summarised in the relevant SCB entries : 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCB-27

 

And : 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCB-125

 

So some modification required to the Wasp kit but more than doable.  Although I thought this kit was great when I was a kid (having built both the Hornet and Lexington boxings) (and although I hate revisionist history) with modern hindsight it’s a real shame it’s an “odd” scale.  

 

 

 

Edited September 27, 2021 by Rob S

[dnl42]

I saw in my LHS that Hasegawa has a 1/700 HANCOCK if that's of any value.