Scale: 1/144

Includes 1 turret with separate barrels.

This model represents the middle pair of 15 cm L/55 (5.9"/55 caliber) twin-gun turrets of the World War Two-era Deutsche Kriegsmarine battleships Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. These turrets were also intended to be installed aboard the proposed H-klasse super-battleships and proposed M-klasse cruisers. The turret is properly known as the SK C/28.
 
This version does not have rangefinders with armored hoods.
 
Click here for a detailed description of the real turrets.

Features:
overall dimensions scaled from Krupp factory drawings.  The scaled dimensions match drawings published in Anatomy of the Ship: The Battleship Bismarck by Jack Brower and the latter work of the same title by Stefan Draminski
details confirmed by careful study of photographs of one of Gneisenau's surviving turrets, removed from the ship and used as a part of a coastal fortification during World War Two
blast bags (bloomers)
accurately sized and positioned bolthead, viewfinder and rangefinder port shutters and shell ejection port details

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