Here is what Mark says about his model:

“ The main structure of the hull is made up of several spines  and frames and are made from 2 mm frame matting material. The skins of the hull  and superstructure, and most parts are the printed parts (24lb high quality  color paper) laminated to 90 lb cardstock. About 90% of the model is paper or card. The mast legs are styrene plastic tube wrapped with paper, the handrails and scratch built from styrene round, main and secondary gun barrels are formed with aluminum tube and wrapped in paper, and some of the detail elements (sailors, draped hoses, signal lights and rafts) are white metal castings.
I added the red fields to the turret tops since the model was  not printed with these on the parts. The OS2U Kingfisher floatplanes are not the ones included with the kit. The Digital Navy birds didn't hold up too well with this much up-scale, so I used Fiddler's Green Kingfishers. The FG birds were painted in a late-war color scheme, so I had to do a pre-war color scheme  on the parts by means of digital re-color. So the planes themselves were a time-consuming part of the project. Both re-color and building them took many  hours.”

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