Corona Virus Project #2: USS Ranger and USS Langley (CV4 and CV1)

USS Ranger was the first "designed" as an aircraft carrier ship for the USN - still experiment in many concepts - the funnel arrangement for one thing looks a frightening nightmare for any friendly aviator approaching her, but she did have a modern island bridge. She was deemed unsuitable for operations n the Pacific so spent her wartime career supporting European Theatre operations (see below, a rather large number "four" shows proud, a bit thicker than the one I put on the Saratoga, but that should not matter as they wouldn't be present in the same fleet operation):

Stepping back, I redid the USS Langley to be in keeping with the other ships (see below, but teh time WWII came around she had been converted to a sea-plane tender, so technically not a CV at all, but I am not going to quibble here):

The early war carriers together (to date I have done four out of the eight needed so I am halfway there). Originally I thought I would do these in an evening .. what a "foolish child" I was! The flight deck (surprise surprise causes all the grief .. I don't mind the "sea bases" now). Still I am pleased to get to this point (see below, an armada of US naval air power, this also means I an going to have to go back and look at the RN flight decks at some point .. I also want to upgrade my sea basing technique across the board): 

Note to Self: Still thinking about that big looking number "four" compared to the skinny number "three". Watch this space I might have to fiddle ;)