Scale: 1/128

Set includes 5 turrets with barrels and optional slotted trunnions for brass barrels.  Brass barrels are not included.
 
Recommended for:
Fleetscale 1/128 scale Takao-class heavy cruiser Chokai
and more!
 
A set of 4 turrets is available separately for Maya as she appeared from 1943-1945 (click here).  Maya's Turret #3 was removed in 1943 during her conversion to an anti-aircraft cruiser.
 
This set of 5 turrets represents the three different configurations of 20.3 cm, 50 caliber twin-gun, year 3, Nendo Shiki model "E" turrets fit to Takao class heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy as they appeared from 1943 to 1945.  This set of models captures the Takao class turrets' appearance after wartime modifications were made during a major refit to each ship of the class.
 
The models' overall dimensions and detailing match scaled drawings published in "Anatomy of the Ship: The Heavy Cruiser Takao" by Janusz Skulski.
 
The set includes individual 3D-printed barrels on a trunnion (not paired/attached to each other).  The barrels can be installed at any realistic elevation.  The set also includes an optional slotted trunnion so that you can use your own brass barrels if desired.  The slots are 0.8 mm in diameter, sized to accept brass barrels by Master Barrels.  Brass barrels are not included.
 
"Third year type 20 cm/50 caliber guns (五十口径三年式二〇糎砲, gojūkōkei sannenshiki ni-maru centi-hō) formed the main battery of Japan's World War II heavy cruisers. These guns were also mounted on two early aircraft carriers.
 
"These were built-up guns with an inner A tube, encased by a second tube, encased by a full length jacket. Early guns were partially wire-wound, but later guns dispensed with the wire winding. The guns were breech loaded with two cloth bags of smokeless powder. Third year type refers to the Welin breech block on this gun. Breech block design began in 1914 AD, the third year of the Taishō period. This breech block design was also used on Japanese 41 cm (16.1 inch), 15.5 cm (6 inch), 14 cm (5.5 inch), 12.7 cm (5 inch), and 12 cm (4.7 inch) naval guns."
 
"Maximum elevation was 70° in the five turrets installed aboard Atago, Takao, and Chōkai in 1932. Early recognition of the impracticality of using these guns for anti-aircraft fire caused reduction of maximum elevation to 55° in all subsequent installations. Maya received five 55° turrets as original equipment in 1932." - Wikipedia

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