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What if HMS Hood were converted into Aircraft Carrier?

Started by ysi_maniac, February 14, 2020, 05:58:57 PM

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ysi_maniac

Conversion of HMS Hood into aircraft carrier by a process similar to that of HMS Courageous

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Captain Canada

Very cool. I'd love to build something like that one day !

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Weaver

That's an interesting idea. It might be part of a larger scheme centering on the idea that the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty ended up with different provisions, leading to Hood being converted in the same way as the Lexington and Saratoga.
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Quote from: Weaver on February 14, 2020, 11:57:17 PM
That's an interesting idea. It might be part of a larger scheme centering on the idea that the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty ended up with different provisions, leading to Hood being converted in the same way as the Lexington and Saratoga.

The treaty also drove the thinking on hybrids, so it could work. Maybe they could have sole Ed the Hood's perennial problem - she was a very wet ship!

Rheged

An Airfix kit of Hood does exist......this could be quite fascinating!!
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JoeP

You might also find Hood from Tamiya or Italeri.
Getting that flight deck and an island and stack, RN fashion, that'd be harder and will likely require much scratch building, plus sourcing detail parts.

Count me in as another vote to see this in plastic!
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ysi_maniac

Some more possibilities, this time based on HMS Ark Royal (there is 1/600 model by Airfix) with two hybrid options.

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DarrenP2

given Hood had sisters under construction there could have been 2-3 of them

Old Wombat

If Hood, Anson, Howe & Rodney had all been built, 2 as battlecruisers & 2 as aircraft carriers, that would have given the RN 2 fast carrier battle groups at the beginning of WW2.
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I do like the second Hood hybrid with her guns forward, but I can imagine the comments from the FAA types upstairs to the poor old "normal matelots" forward  ;)
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