Flight deck with middle yellow-white stripe, both made from water-soluble decals. Decal "63" for CVA-63 on bow and island areas. Various nicknames were bestowed upon the Kitty Hawk by its crew, including : 1) The Hawk, 2) The Battle Cat, 3) Shitty Kitty - in reference of its air wing bombing capability, 4) Chicken Hawk. Warship Interactive Zone - www.pbs.org/wnet/warship/carriers/flight_deck.html

Rollover : Hull weathering done via black wash method. Excessive paint removed with cotton swab, thus will leave black highlight mark around surface details. . With over 4 decades of service, Kitty Hawk projected American military might on crucial regions, such as Yankee Station in South China Sea during Vietnam War, conducted "Boat People" refugee rescue from Vietnamese fleeing conquest of South Vietnam in 1975, positioned off South Korea in 1979 after assassination of its President Park Chung-Hee to thwart potential North Korean invasion, etc. Nevertheless, negative events also occurred such as 12 October 1972 racial brawl on the carrier involving 100 sailors resulting in 50 injuries, a sign of the times as US society was in-transition to a new social equilibrium. Boat people - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat_people