USN Flying Deck Cruiser 1/1800

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Proposed 1940 design for a US Navy "Flying Deck Cruiser" - basically a hybrid aircraft carrier-light cruiser. It was first proposed in the 1920s when funding for ships, particularly aircraft carriers, was hard to come by. Proposed again in 1940 but design was deemed not practical and was never built; especially with funding available for Yorktown class CV and Brooklyn class CL.

Model is in 1/1800 scale with the following dimensions: 108mm long, 16.5mm wide, 23mm tall.

Following are specifications of the design (mix of BuShip specifications and my analysis of design):
Displacement: 14,500 tons [BuShips]
Speed: 33 knots [BuShips]
Range: 10,000 nm [BuShips]
3.6" belt armor [BuShips]
2.5" deck armor [BuShips]
6" guns: 2 (1xBOW, 1xSTERN) - both in 3 gun turrets as in Brooklyn class with 135 degree arcs of fire [BuShips]
2x2 5" guns [BuShips]
7x dual 40mm guns
24x 20mm guns
Flight Deck Length: 400ft [BuShips]
Hanger space: 22,942 sq ft
1 elevator (forward) [BuShips]
Aircraft complement (F4F straight wing, based on number of planes I could fit onto the model deck and hanger and still have leading deck park plane fly off)
Hanger: 18
Deck park: 6
Total: 24
Aircraft complement (F4F folded wing, based on number of planes I could fit onto the model deck and hanger and still have leading deck park plane fly off)
Hanger: 39
Deck park: 10
Total: 49
Aircraft complement (VSB - Dautless)
Total: 36 [BuShips]