1:72 USS Ranger 1941 - Base - Acrylic 3mm (280x180mm)

Kelik 1:72 USS Ranger 1941 – a base with a deck motif

This color base from Kelik captures the deck of the American aircraft carrier USS Ranger as she looked in 1941. It is intended under aircraft models built in 1:72 scale and replaces the laborious building of a deck scene.

An American deck as a base

The deck surfaces of American carriers from the start of the war look visually different from British ones and have a color scheme of their own. A model of a fighter or a dive bomber on such a base fits at once into the setting it belongs to, and the display case stops looking like a row of machines suspended in emptiness. The effect arrives without a single drop of glue and without touching the model itself.

Ranger in the prewar year

Ranger was the first American ship designed from the keel up as a carrier rather than converted from another type of vessel. Compared with later carriers she was smaller and slower, so the Navy used her mainly in the Atlantic. The year 1941 meant patrol service and ferrying aircraft for her, that is the period just before the United States entered the war.

Suitable uses

• Under American carrier aircraft of the turn of the 1930s and 1940s
• In a collection focused on the Atlantic theater
• As a permanent base in a display case or on a shelf
• For model photographers who need a neutral scene

It is a display accessory; no part of a model of the ship or of an aircraft is in the box.