Scale 1/350

Set includes 3 turrets with trunnions.  No barrels.

Recommended for:
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale USS Pittsburgh CA-72
Trumpeter 1/350 scale USS Baltimore CA-68 (1944)
Trumpeter 1/350 scale USS Pittsburgh CA-72 (1944)
Yankee Modelworks 1/350 USS Baltimore CA-68

This accurately shaped and highly detailed set represents the three 8 inch 55 caliber triple turret main battery of the US Navy's Baltimore class heavy cruisers as they appeared during World War Two.

A set of 3 turrets in their Vietnam War-era configurstion is available separately.

Features:
designed according to official US Navy Bureau of Ordnance publication O.P. 1112 dated 15 January 1945
accurate shape
separate trunnion allows the modeler to set barrels to any realistic elevation from +41 degrees to -5 degrees just like the real turret (barrels not included)
detailed rangefinder and viewfinder hoods
accurately sized, positioned and numbered rangefinder and viewfinder hood bolt-head details
blast bag (also known as buckler, bloomer) attachment rings
numbers correctly representing the part numbers welded to the turret-roof viewfinder hoods
turret roof viewfinder hood doors correctly offset to the left

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