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Scale: 1/192   (1/16 inch = 1 foot)

Set includes 2 mounts (turrets) with barrels.

 

Recommended for:

  • Bluejacket Shipcrafters 1/192 scale USS Samuel B. Roberts DE-413
  • and more!

 

Designed with upper, aft facet, specifically for John C. Butler and Rudderow class destroyer escorts.  One Edsall class ship (USS Camp DE-251) and eleven Buckley class ships received two of these mounts during refits.  This type was also fit to the New Mexico class battleship USS Idaho BB-42.

Among naval historians, the US Navy 5"/38 caliber gun is considered the best intermediate-caliber, dual purpose naval gun of World War II.  Two 5-inch/38 Mk.30 single mounts were normally fitted to Rudderow and John C. Butler class destroyer escorts, one forward and one aft.

Features: 

  • scaled from official US Navy drawings
  • accurate, asymmetrically-shaped gunhouse (turret)
  • separate barrel and trunnion to allow the modeler to set the gun at any realistic elevation
  • accurately offset gun opening
  • accurate glacis (forward face) stiffener detail
  • access hatches and viewports with hinge, clasp ("dog") and bolt detail
  • detailed turret bottom supporting structure with accurately placed bolt-head detail
  • rear vent and shell ejection chute

 

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1/192 Destroyer Escort 5"/38 cal. Mk.30 Mounts, also for USS Idaho BB-42

SKU: 192-5in38 DE mounts-2
$14.00Price
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