Scale: 1/350

Set includes 4 turrets (no barrels).

Recommended to help build a late Cleveland class light cruiser from:
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale USS Birmingham CL-62 (1944)
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale USS Miami CL-89 (1944) ex-Gulfstream Models kit
Very Fire 1/350 scale USS Cleveland CL-55
Very Fire 1/350 scale USS Birmingham CL-62
and more!
 
Note: the Very Fire kits' barrels are molded in groups of 3, connected together on a trunnion, therefore will not fit through the bottom opening of these turrets without modification.  Model Monkey barrels, available separarely, are designed as individual barrels, not connected together.  The Model Monkey barrels will individually fit through the turret bottom opening.
 
These four accurate and highly detailed model turrets represent the four 6"/47 cal. Triple-gun Turrets mounted to the later ships of the US Navy’s Cleveland class of light cruisers, those fit with a "square bridge".  These turrets have integrated, welded rangefinder hoods.  Early ships of the class, those fit to "round bridge" ships, had bolt-on armored rangefinder hoods like those of the preceding Brooklyn class.  Early turrets for "round bridge" ships are available separately.
 
After World War Two, some ships of the class had the large rangefinder and armored rangefinder hoods removed from Turret #1.  When ordering, please specify whether you want a World War Two-era set (rangefinder on Turret #1) or a Post-war set (no rangefinder on Turret #1).
 
Ships known to have been fit with late configuration turrets:
USS Vincennes CL-64
USS Pasadena CL-65
USS Springfield CL-66
USS Topeka CL-67
USS Biloxi CL-80
USS Houston CL-81
USS Providence CL-82
USS Manchester CL-83
USS Vicksburg CL-86
USS Duluth CL-87
USS Miami CL-89
USS Astoria CL-90
USS Oklahoma City CL-91
USS Little Rock CL-92
USS Galveston CL-93
USS Amsterdam CL-101
USS Portsmouth CL-102
USS Wilkes-Barre CL-103
USS Atlanta CL-104
USS Dayton CL-105

Features:
overall dimensions precisely scaled from scans of original builder's blueprints
accurately shaped complex curvature
open glacis gun ports
turret side rivet and weld line detail
armored rangefinder hexhead bolt and domed screw details
base for rooftop periscope
rooftop raised access plate, bolt-head and tiedown details
turret bottoms are numbered for easy identification
Turrets 1 and 4, located on the main deck, have accurate crew access hatch and shell ejection ports on rear turret wall (superfiring Turrets 2 and 3 do not – crew access for Turrets 2 and 3 was made through the turret bottom overhang)
Turret 4 does not have an integrated rangefinder
 
These scale model turrets are designed from scans of original builder’s blueprints of the real turret stored at the National Archives.  They are not 3D-printed copies of any resin or plastic model kit’s parts and therefore are not the same shape or size.

© Model Monkey LLC.  This 3D-printed product may not be copied or recast.