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Hello everyone..This is my biggest built ever

The diorama represents the Yorktown CV-5 at Coral Sea during the recovery phase on may the 8th 1942 aprox. in the late afternoon.
I started in 2021 and I almost finished it..

Enjoy

More pics

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I see the first one though…

More pics...sorry still working on the posting of pics

More..pics...I hope you will not say I'm spamming you guys..

Here you can see a custom conversion of the lower part of the upper deck..

Enjoy

Here you can see the elevators pit and centra deck auxiliary elevator

And here the beginning of the super detailling of the aircraft engine test Shop.

Wow... lots of PE parts you got going on here. Is this the Trumpeter kit? Looking fabulous.

BlackSheep214 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2026 11:01 am Wow... lots of PE parts you got going on here. Is this the Trumpeter kit? Looking fabulous.

Indeed it was a lot of PE from the kit and Edouard...and the kit is the former Yorktown CV-5 Merit 1/350 kit...

The kit is OK but there are many mistakes and missing parts/details and in some cases... bizarre interpretations of reality..
But it's a good representation of Yorktown