Scale: 1/350

Set includes 2 mounts (turrets).  No barrels.

Recommended for:
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale USS Rudderow DE-339 (1944)
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale Buckley Class DE
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale USS New Mexico BB-40 (1944) built as USS Idaho BB-42
Trumpeter 1/350 scale USS England DE-635, refit or converted to Edsall class USS Camp DE-251
 
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: 
fully assembled
scaled from official US Navy drawings
accurate, asymmetrically-shaped gunhouse (turret)
slot for 5"/38 cal. gun barrel set at the loading angle of +5 degrees (barrel not included)
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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