Nice work, Michael. The SOC was a really pretty airplane to my eyes, and you model captures its appearance very well. I am glad to know about the 32lb paper and am enjoying your successive projects, which get better and better.
Nobi probably identified this aircraft (Bureau of Aeronautics [BuAer] Number 1134 9-CS-9) as Aircraft No. 9 of Cruiser Scout Squadron [VCS] 9, as it appeared aboard
USS Phoenix [CL-46] in 1939, at which time
Phoenix was part of Cruiser Division 9, which was part of Cruisers, Battle Force, U.S. Fleet and based at San Pedro. [Fahey, p. 26; Larkins, p. 143]]
Incidentally, Joe Baugher's very useful
US Navy and US Marine Corps BuNos, Second Series (0001 to 5029) indicates that this aircraft was lost at sea while operating from USS
Honolulu (CL-48) on 11 June 1942.
Honolulu was operating in the Aleutian islands and based at Kodiak at that time, according to the
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
Sources:
Painting of 9-CS-9:
http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/1686/pics/3_2.png
Joe Baugher,
US Navy and US Marine Corps BuNos, Second Series (0001 to 5029), available at:
US Navy and US Marine Corps BuNos--Second Series (0001 to 5029)
James C. Fahey,
The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet, 1939, Falls Church, VA: Ships and Aircraft 1939, reprinted 1973 and 1986 by Naval Institute Press.
William T. Larkins,
Battleship & Cruiser Aircraft of the United States Navy, 1910-1949, Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military/Aviation History, 1996, pp. 63 (image of 9-CS-3of USS
Honolulu), 81 (information on the 1938-41 cruiser floatplane marking system), 143 (1939 U.S. Fleet floatplane assignments 1939).
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command,
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, "Honolulu II," available at
https://www.history.navy.mil/researc...nolulu-ii.html
I'm looking forward the completion of this build and your next one.
Don