Give them the steel lads! On this 4th of July why not celebrate
Independence Day with photo-etch from Gold Medal Models? With the GMM
set for the 1:700 scale USS Lexington/Saratoga
you can declare your independence from boring models by packing the smartness
and precision of a brigade of regulars into your build of the two big flattops.
After all Gold Medal Models is based in the State of Washington. If
George was home at Mt. Vernon, he too would be attaching the GMM
photo-etch to his build of the Lexington.
Even the name of the fret rings of the fight for Independence. Lexington and
Saratoga, what more could any patriot want?
Nobody will confuse your Lexington with militia when she is decked out with
the martial accoutrements provided by Gold Medal Models in this fret.
"By Gawd, those are regulars!" Brigadier Smedley-Rupert
will exclaim as you send his redcoats packing. The large CXAM radar array
included in the fret will definitely be standing tall at the peak of the funnel
of the Lex. Of course you have the
ability to form square as GMM provides the rectangular stack grills for
the four openings on the top of the funnel. Reinforce your line with the wide
selection of support bracing provided by GMM. There are parts for the
support of the 20mm gallery at the starboard base of the funnel as well as
supports for the structure on the aft face of the towering stack. Break the
boredom of a completely flat deck by erecting your own windbreak/palisades
provided in the fret. Also providing additional deck detail and relief are
arresting gear sheaves and barricade wire supports.
John Paul Jones would be sea green with envy to see the detailed controls
provided by GMM for the open navigation bridge of Lexington.
No doubt Serapis would have struck
far sooner had the Bon Homme Richard
carried these beauties. For your aircraft GMM provides 36 aircraft
propellers, twelve each for SBDs, TBDs and F4Fs. For close in work the artillery
of Lexington will receive a smart new
treatment. Oerlikons will receive crisp finely done gun shields and the
5-inch/28 gun mounts receive safety rails with fuse setting positions. Speaking
of propellers, GMM provides replacement three-bladed propellers that will
allow the Lex sail into battle at
flank speed.
For boarding parties, GMM provides an extraordinary level of detail
for the ship’s boats. Pulpits, rudders, pulleys, railing and chocks are all
provided and for the marines, carley raft bottoms and oars are included. For
celebrating Independence Day, you can run up an effigy of rotten ole King George
to the GMM yardarms in the fret. Railings are provided for the hull
galleries and for the perimeter of the elevator openings. A huge variety of deck
edge safety nets add a further glory of detail for the Lex
and cable reels further add detail to the starboard side of the island. Loren
even provides a 1:700 scale figure of Captain Frederick Sherman, Lexington’s
last commander.
Gold Medal Models provides all of the drill instructions needed with
their typical one sheet two-sided format. Even Thomas Jefferson would have been
proud to have penned the stirring text and illuminating drawings found in the GMM
instructions. All facets of assembly and attachments of the photo-etch parts are
clearly shown in the step by step approach taken by GMM.
In your quest for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Detail, you need go no
further than Loren Perry’s photo-etch set for the 1:700 scale Lexington
and Saratoga. The fret has all of the
detail needed to fully clothe the Lex
for battle in the quality for which GMM is widely renowned.
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