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Hand made by me with airbrush & original parts HMS Illustrious was a light aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy & the second of three Invincible-class ships constructed in the late 1970s & early 1980s. She was the fifth warship & second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, & was affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". in 1982, the conflict in the Falklands necessitated that Illustrious be completed & rushed south to join her sister ship HMS Invincible & the veteran carrier HMS Hermes. To this end, she was brought forward by three months for completion at Swan Hunter Shipyard, then commissioned on 20 June 1982 at sea en route to Portsmouth Dockyard to take on board extra stores & crew With water diorama with plastic box Hms Illustrious Carrier With Diorama
