Model Builder International Feb. 2015 Vol. 1 Issue 1 MBI Feb. 2015 Special Edition | Page 6

the big “e”
I started this build in June 2006 and the model
was completed in February 2007. I have clocked
1,096 hours from start to finish. This Tamiya kit
although very impressive needed a lot of
alterations and scratch building to achieve the
accuracy of the real ship. Photo etch from GMM
and White Ensign was used for both the ship and
the air wing. The model is portrayed in full alert
conditions and I think I achieved that by a sortie
going off on the two forward catapults, another
sortie landing and another being fuelled and
armed up on the port side.

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By Lou Carabott