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1/700 HMS Vindictive (Hawkins class cruiser) WWI aircraft carrier - AJM resin
$ 39.59
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1/700 Hawkins Class Cruisers: HMS VINDICTIVEAJM Models 700012
Second hand store find. Un-started resin & PE kit. Please email if you have question before bidding. Sold as-is.
History (from Wikipedia):
HMS Vindictive was a warship built during the First World War for the Royal Navy (RN). Originally designed as a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser and laid down under the name Cavendish, she was converted into an aircraft carrier while still being built. Renamed in 1918, she was completed a few weeks before the end of the war and saw no active service with the Grand Fleet. The following year she participated in the British campaign in the Baltic against the Bolsheviks during which her aircraft made numerous attacks against the naval base at Kronstadt. Vindictive returned home at the end of the year and was placed in reserve for several years before her flight decks were removed and she was reconverted back into a cruiser. The ship retained her aircraft hangar and conducted trials with an aircraft catapult before she was sent to the China Station in 1926. A year after her return in 1928, she was again placed in reserve.