by Christoph Mentzel
1/700 French carrier Foch (HP Models)
The aircraft carrier Foch was with his sistership Clemenceau the first modern build french carriers. Build in the late 50's and commissioned in the early 60's both carriers are the heart of the french fleet for over 35 years. The Clemenceau was decommissioned 1997 and the Foch was decommissioned 2000 and sold to Brazilia as Sao Paulo.
HP Models have realized both ship. The Clemenceau as the ship was build with the original 8 100mm AA guns and the Foch in her late configuration with only 4 100mm guns and two SACP Crotale missle systems.
The kit have only a few parts:
The hull, flightdeck, five parts for the island, and some smaller parts for guns, radar, mast and boats.
But all parts are very fine cast and have good details. The flightdeck have small holes on it.
The kit included some resin planes. 2 Super Etendard, 4 Crusader, 2 Frelon and 4 Alize. They are not bad. But i have replaced the Crusaders with some from Fujimi. For the Frelon heli's i have not found a PE replacement so i have up to now not placed them on the ship.
The radar i have got from L'Arsenals french radar set of the 50-60's.
The decals are from Starfighterdecals.