Construction Notes: The kit molds are from 1958...sometimes it's amazingly good like the detail of the wood planking...or it shows when three kits fail to produce a good hull match, leaving a gap on the bottom. Painting and then scrapping the wood planking on the decks worked very well and left a realistic looking result when overcoated with a gloss coat. Decisions had to be made about historical context. The biplanes supplied in the kit are not what was on the Arizona on Dec 7, 1941...but then...nothing was, because the Kingfisher planes assigned to the ship had been moved to hangars. I used the planes in the kit and made this a tribute to the Arizona of a time before Pearl Harbor.