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Airfix and Revell sell inexpensive 1/1200 plastic kits of Hornet, Enterprise, Zuikaku and others. The aircraft supplied with these ships are a tad oversize for 1/1800 but a little undersize for 1/1200 but they are separate. Or you could do what I do:
Photo 1.
1. Cut to size a piece of wood veneer for the ocean base.
2. Cut to size a blank for a carrier.
3. Glue 1 and 2 together, paint all grey, paint ocean, paint wake.
4. Obtain a piece of steel shim (about one thou’) about 5mm (1/4″) by 50mm (3″). Steel food can works OK.
5. Glue 4 to the deck.
6. Copy a carrier deck illustration from the web of which there are hundreds.
7. Print off in colour and glue to 6.
8. Buy a bunch of 1x2mm rare earth magnets from Amazon for CAN$15.
9. Slightly enlarge the hole on the base of the VAS aircraft flights casting and glue a magnet into it.
10. Assemble the flights on the deck … Photo 2. Only one of those carriers is from WG but the wood ones work until castings come out.
11. Some of the aircraft in photo 2 are from Mongoose.
12. I modify the aircraft bases to accept a thumbtack onto which the aircraft flights stick nicely or a thin wire about 6 inches long to keep the aircraft way up in the air.
