The model looks great but the time and details to make this post is equally impressive.
I built a lot of models when I was a kid but never had the patience for such an endeavor that would eventually be blown apart with firecrackers.
Hehehe...when we were kids on the ranch we would glue in compartments to give them more water tight integrity, and then take them down to the creek and plink away at them with 22s and 4-10s.
But now, when I do all the electrical work to light the hangar deck and build the details into the deck...no way am I going to “blw them up.”
Anyhow, I like building entire Carrier Strike Groups and Marine Exidionary Units, or ARGS at least.
I’d heat my model cars up in front of the fireplace so they’d “dent” and crash them into each other, after I got tired of them. Too bad, some would be regarded as somewhat rare today. No value built by an amateur kid though, probably. I was picky but didn’t really know what I was doing. That Testors glue especially created problems. Too much and you’ve marred a surface or melted a delicate part into goop.