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Dear Micronaut aficionados,

I am wondering how much differentiation is actually modeled on the scout plane catapults that adorn GHQ's USN capital ships. Obviously the older turret-top catapults are easily distinguished from the deck mounted ones, but are the deck-mounts distinguishable from each other?

In particular I need one for BB-59 Massachusetts and want to know if I can use pretty much any USN deck-mounted catapult?

Thanks in advance.

RedDragon wrote:... Obviously the older turret-top catapults are easily distinguished from the deck mounted ones, but are the deck-mounts distinguishable from each other?

In particular I need one for BB-59 Massachusetts and want to know if I can use pretty much any USN deck-mounted catapult?

Thanks in advance.

I've not noticed a difference for the 'newer' classes, Cleveland, Brooklyn, modern battleships but I don't have all the classes

The "Fast Battleships" (South Dakota, North Carolina and Iowa classes) and the modernized pre-war battleships had Kingfisher scout planes aboard. The GHQ kits representing these classes have the single wing (Kingfisher) float planes on the parts sprues. The older ships have the biplane float planes (Curtis SOC Seagulls) The Kingfishers began to appear with the fleet around 1940. The heavy cruiser Baltimore class and the Light cruiser Cleveland class also have the single wing floatplanes.
The deck catapults themselves in 1/2400th scale are basically identical...except for the planes on top of them.
I hope this helps.

I agree with Battlewagon - GHQ's USN "modern" WW2 battleships (BB-55 and above) all have stern mounted catapults with a single wing floatplane. Same too for many of GHQ's WW2 USN cruisers (Baltimore, Cleveland, and Brooklyn classes). Any of those stern-mounted catapults are interchangeable.
Beware that the USN cruisers that have midships catapults have a slightly different part, with the mounting point being closer to the middle of the catapult track than those from the stern / fantail mounted catapults. There's just enough of a difference to make it look a bit "off" if you use a midships cat on a fantail location.
Kevin

Let me check my spares box, I may have one for you.

For clarity since people are so nice and offering to send me catapults left and right, I can make sure I send the right catapult to somebody else!

So thank you all for the offers, I just needed to make sure I knew what to send.