For Model lovers Navy Veterans and ships Captains.......  enjoy, this is a nice work of art!

 

A Model of USS Sangamon, by René Hieronymus

René Hieronymus, from Austria, has built this amazing 1/72 scale model of USS Sangamon. Please read the The Don Schroeder Collection and the  Story Behind the Model at the ModelWarships.com site.

 

USS Sangamon, an 11,000-ton Independence class small aircraft carrier, was built at Camden, New Jersey. Begun as the light cruiser Dayton (CL-78), she was converted to an aircraft carrier well before launching and commissioned in June 1943 with the hull number CV-26. A month later, this was changed to CVL-26.

'To be honest I have been working on this model exactly 5 and 1/2 years, a total of 4300 hrs and I'm proud that I have finally finished it.  The folding wings of all the aircraft are scratch built as well as all PE parts were done by myself.  The fuselages for the Hellcats came from Italy and the Avenger from Academy.  423 figures came from various sources, all the rest are scratch built.  And just to make sure I would definitely do it again, the next one is already in the early planning stages.'   Model maker René Hieronymus, from Austria

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