Been a long term fan of the light carrier / fighter carrier / aircraft cruiser. The interest kicked off when Australia was buying Invincible from the UK then the Falklands war, I became fascinated with the concept of small to very small carriers operating a small but useful group of fighters and ASW aircraft. The Vosper Thornycroft Harrier Carrier was a favorite, as was the Chakri Naruebet and the various RN Escort Cruiser sketches from the 1960s.
In the late 40s the RN planned to replace their cruiser squadrons on colonial station with light carriers supported by a smaller number of cruisers, operating fighters, strike fighters and ASW aircraft. These were to be the Colossus and Majestic classes, a type powered by a half a Crown Colony cruiser propulsion set, then there was the USN CVL, based on a light cruiser hull. There were multiple prewar studies in a number of countries on aircraft cruisers etc. Hermes design was based on a cruiser hull form, then there was the Washington treaty clause which excluded carriers with a standard displacement below 10000tons from being counted against the signatories total carrier tonnages. Overall I am surprised, except for the financial restrictions of the time, that there weren't a significant number of just under 10000 ton carriers built pre WWII.
Anyway, the reason I've been rabbiting on about light carriers, in particular, fast light, cruiser sized carriers, is the logical aircraft to operate from them would be pretty much any pre-war naval fighter but during the war, the Wildcat and post war, the Bearcat. What I'm thinking of doing is building a Sea Gladiator, a Wildcat and my Bearcat as aircraft operated from my wiff RAN prewar light carrier class based on the County class cruiser hull.