Hello Everyone...
I'd like to join up with this campaign.
My entry will be Tamiya's F4F-4
representing an aircraft from VGF-29 aboard the USS Santee (an Escort Carrier)
I've found the following photo of the aircaft in squadrons F4F book..
and here isthe relevent excert from the USS Santee's naval record....for the time frame that she carried wildcat fighters...
Emptied of her P-38 cargo, SANTEE departed Glasgow in
convoy on 13 January and returned to Norfolk on the 24th.
She stood out of Norfolk on 13 February with destroyer
escort TATUM (DE-789), transited the Panama Canal on 18 and
19 February and moored at San Diego on the 28th. There,
SANTEE embarked 300 Navy and Marine Corps personnel and 31
aircraft for delivery to Pearl Harbor. She also took on 24
Wildcat fighters and Avenger dive bombers as her own
instruments of war.
Standing out of San Diego Bay on 2 March, the CVE
unloaded her ferried aircraft and personnel at Pearl Harbor
upon her arrival on the 9th.
Escort carriers SANGAMON (CVE-26), SUWANEE (CVE-27),
CHENANGO (CVE-28) and SANTEE, all former oilers, swarmed out
of Pearl Harbor with a flock of destroyers on 15 March,
heading southwest. Designated Carrier Division (CarDiv) 22,
they joined the fast carriers of the 5th Fleet on 27 March
and sped west to the Palaus. There, their planes of CarDiv
22 flew patrols over vulnerable tankers before setting
course for Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides on 4 April.
In this, the closing phase of the New Guinea campaign,
SANTEE fueled and provisioned near Espiritu Santo from 7 to
10 April; then sailed to Purvis Bay, Solomons, on the 13th.
CarDiv 22 joined CarDiv 24 and a destroyer squadron on 16
April and set course for New Guinea.
SANTEE's air group aircraft aided in destroying 100
enemy aircraft and ripping up enemy airfields before the
landings, prior to departing for Manus Island, Admiralties,
on 24 April. Arriving at Seeadler Harbor the next day,
SANTEE and her sister ships took on fuel and food; then
sailed again on the 26th for Hollandia. From 12 May through
1 June, SANTEE traded in her own air arm for 66 Corsairs and
15 Hellcats and personnel of Marine Air Group 21.
I hope this fits in with the spirit of the campaign.
thanks
Delbert
I haven't officially enlisted yet as I need to know if this kit qualifies and what else I might have to do.
With the can rack in place I don't think that one will see much of the rear plate but if I built the kit OOB the instructions show mounting a sledge hammer and large wrench on the plate. The exhaust deflector is another issue. I have some .010" styrene that might serve the purpose or perhaps get a thin sheet of brass sheeting. 
