Scale: 1/350.  
 
Notice:  These turrets are designed at 95% of 1/350 scale specifically to better fit resin kits affected by typical resin shrinkage during curing in which true-scale turrets are too large to fit.
 
Turret apron diameter = 28.1 mm.  Measure the diameter of the barbettes in your resin kit to ensure that these turrets are a good match for your model ship kit.
 
Sets of true 1/350 scale early or late turrets are available separately.
 
Set includes 4 turrets, no barrels.  Barrels or trunnions are available separately.

These models represent the modified appearance of the 16"/45 caliber main battery of the Colorado-class battleships USS Colorado BB-45, USS Maryland BB-46 and USS West Virginia BB-48.  At various times during the service lives of the Colorado-class battleships, external vent trunks were added to turrets 1, 2 and 4.  These 3D-printed turrets are suitable for all ships of the class after the addition of external vent trunks.  USS Maryland BB-46 had this configuration on the morning of December 7th, 1941 while anchored at Pearl Harbor on "Battleship Row".  
 
A set of four early 16"/45 cal. Colorado-class twin-gun turrets without vent trunks is available separately. 

Features:
accurately scaled from official US Navy drawings
overall length: 37.09 mm
turret apron diameter: 28.1 mm
accurate shape - these are not Tennessee-class turrets with two guns
accurately shaped gun openings with barrel rests
accurate blast bag (bloomer) attachment collars
closed armored rangefinder viewport shutters
rooftop screwheads acurately sized, numbered and located
armored rangefinder hexhead bolt and screw details
accurately sized and shaped ventilation trunks for Turrets 1, 2 and 4.  Turret 3, the aft superfiring turret, did not have external vent trunks

These 3D-printed acrylic parts are designed to accurately represent features of the real turret based on official US Navy drawings.  These turrets are not 3D-printed copies of any plastic or resin kit's parts and therefore may be shaped and sized differently than those parts.  These turrets were designed specifically for Blue Water Navy and Yankee Modelworks resin kits.  Resin kits typically experience some shrinkage during curing and may be under-scale.  Some adjustment to your kit's parts or other aftermarket parts such as photo-etch or wood decks may be necessary for best fit.

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