PitRoad 1/700 Japanese Aircraft Carrier Chiyoda W256 48a Sharing the same RAF airfield

Sharing the same RAF airfield as the Typhoons which provide Britain's Southern sector QRA cover

This version of Zero had wing of reduced span and the folding wingtips were eliminated

USN and USMC

In February 1943

I got a little Airfix kit of a Heinkel 111

PitRoad 1/700 Japanese Aircraft Carrier Chiyoda W256 48a Sharing the same RAF airfieldPlastic model kit, assembly required. Glue, paint and finishing supplies not included. Chiyoda, like her sister ship Chitose, was initially completed in 1938 as a seaplane carrier, with later conversion to an aircraft carrier in mind. Afterwards, only Chiyoda underwent conversion to a deck target carrier, and with the loss of four aircraft carriers at once in the Battle of Midway in 1942, it was finally decided to convert both ships to aircraft