Aircraft of CVG -19 (9 Nov 1950 -29 May 1951*) Aircraft deployed to USS Princeton (CV-37) during Korean War. Squadron Aircraft Tail Code VF-191 F9F-2 B VF-192 F4U-4 B VF-193 F4U-4 B VA-195 AD-4 B VC-3 Det F F4U-5N NP Night fighter with APS-6 radar VC-11 Det AD-4W ND 3 seat airborne early warning version VC-35 Det 3 AD-4N NR VC-61 Det F9F-2P PP Photographic version of the F9F HU-1 Det HO3S -1 UP The CVG-19 aircraft are all 1/144th scale. I have worked with 1/72 aircraft in the past, so working with something ½ that size was very different. But surprisingly, these little birds are full of nice detail. The F9F-2 Panther aircraft are from OZMODS Kits, a company from Australia. They were a little difficult to get everything lined up properly and required a bit of body putty all around, but the kits do produce a very nice Panther. The F4Us and the AD-4 variants were from F-Toys of Japan. These are nice little gems. I did strip and repaint them with Model Master enamel paint, then decaled with Microscale and kit decals. Some variations included the APS-6 radar on the VC-3 F4U-5N night fighter. The enlarged canopy, reworked tail, and underbelly radome on the VC-11 AD-4W were scratch built and parts from an Airelex resin kit. The HO3S-1 helicopter was one of the most difficult of to find, and I had originally looked at leaving this out of the display. But quite by accident I found that a company called Anigrand produces rather large resin 1/144th scale aircraft and each kit comes with 3 or 4 additional models of experimental aircraft. As it turns out, one of their kits had the Sikorsky R5-A helicopter which, with a little work produced a very nice model of the HO3S-1.
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