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I've been making up some bases for my models to sit on, mostly pre-WW2 so grass is working fine. I do have some Navy planes though and thought a little piece of generic carier deck would look good for them. How wide was the planking on on the typical wood decked carrier? Also was their a set length for the planks?

I'm just looking at a generic carrier so an average or most common size is fine if there was some significant variation.

Thanks

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Just looking through some pics online and I would guess that the width of a plank is approx. the width of a wheel - i.e. scale 1/4" - so that would make the planks 6" wide. Looking at this pic, the planks look really long, maybe 12-14" long making them 48'+ long in real life?!? I just don't know about that...

Good luck.

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