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Wright Aeronautical F4W-1 Hurricane - VF-3, USS Lexington, US Navy, 1942

 

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Where is that Lexington from? I would not mind seeing a version of that model updated to represent USS Saratoga, CV-3 in her post January 1944 configuration with 16 5inch/38's in four two gun and eight single mount, 23 quad 40mm and 2 twin 40mm mounts, and 16 20mm Oerlikon's.   

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The Sea Hurricane wears US Navy colors very well! May I ask that you release this one?

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Lex and Sara, DAT models (there's 2 - one with the 8 inchers, on without)

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The Sea Hurricane wears US Navy colors very well! May I ask that you release this one?

Yes. I'll need to package it up first but I'll get around to it.

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may I suggest you repaint the spinner ... use black. the red is FAR to visible, and could cause blue-on-blue incidents. those few USN birds that used a spinner/spinner cap were usually black (early sbds for example)

 

also might want to create a 'standard" NS blue/NS gray, and have a start date of 05/1942, without the tail stripes and meatballs

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may I suggest you repaint the spinner ... use black. the red is FAR to visible, and could cause blue-on-blue incidents. those few USN birds that used a spinner/spinner cap were usually black (early sbds for example)

 

also might want to create a 'standard" NS blue/NS gray, and have a start date of 05/1942, without the tail stripes and meatballs

It will be released as is.

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Love it. The Sea Hurry (IIc?) looks good in USN uniform. 4x20mm vs. Zekes would've been very interesting!

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Raven has very kindly given the F4W-1 some authentic US style antennae wires. I'll update the upload.

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