Scale: 1/192    (1/16 inch = 1 foot)

Set includes 4 mounts (turrets) with barrels"
2 "double-knuckle" mounts
2 "single-knuckle" mounts
 
Notice: the design has been updated to include solid trunnions for easier barrel alignment based on customer feedback.  Renderings of these mounts show the discontinued design with open, hollow trunnions.  Click here to see photos of 5"/38 cal. Mk.28 mounts featuring barrels with the new, solid trunnion.

Recommended for:
Classic Warships 1/192 scale USS Sims DD-409 (Sims class)
Yankee Modelworks 1/192 scale USS Sims DD-409 (Sims class)
and more!
 
Among naval historians, the US Navy 5"/38 caliber cannon is considered the best intermediate-caliber, dual purpose naval gun of World War II.  These models represent the 5"/38 cal. Mk.30 single gun mount fit to several classes of warships and Coast Guard cutters.
 
This set includes two different configurations:
Two "Heavyweight" or "Double Knuckle" type mounts were positioned on the main deck. These two mounts had a reinforced roof with two "bumps", called "knuckles", that resisted blast from another 5-inch turret firing overhead.
Two "Lightweight" or "Single Knuckle" type mounts were normally placed in superfiring positions on top of deckhouses therefore roof reinforcement was not required.
 
The early version of these mounts, reproduced here, appeared sometime up through 1942, and was fit to Sims-class, Benson-class, Gleaves-class, and "round bridge" Fletcher-class destroyers.

Features:
overall dimensions and details scaled from official US Navy O.P. 1112 drawings dated March, 1945 and measurements taken from surviving 5" mounts aboard the museum ship USS Kidd DD-661
details were confirmed by careful study of photographs of Sims-class, Benson-class, and Gleaves-class destroyers
mount can be made rotatable and the gun can be positioned at any realistic elevation
an accurately shaped asymmetrical gunhouse (turret)
accurate, offset gun opening
forward face stiffeners
detailed turret bottom supporting structure with accurately placed bolt-head detail
rear vent
detailed gun captain blast hood, fit to the right side of the roof of "Double Knuckle" mounts as they were during World War Two
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