Scale: 1/350.  
 
Notice: These turrets will not fit the Blue Water Navy 1/350 scale USS West Virginia BB-48 kit or Yankee Modelworks 1/350 scale USS West Virginia BB-48 kit.  Those kits appear to be slightly under-scale.  These turrets are too big for those kits.  A set of turrets scaled to fit the Blue Water Navy and Yankee Modelworks kits is available separately.
 
Set includes 4 turrets with barrels and slotted trunnions.

Recommended for:
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale USS Maryland BB-46  (1941)
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale USS West Virginia BB-48  (1941)
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale USS Tennessee BB-43  (1944) with optional parts for USS West Virginia BB-48, built as USS West Virginia.
Toms Modelworks 1/350 scale USS West Virginia BB-48  (1941)

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 configuration 16"/45 cal. Colorado-class twin-gun turrets without vent trunks is available separately (click here). 

Features:
accurately scaled from official US Navy drawings
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 accurately sized, numbered and located
armored rangefinder hex-head 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
barrels grouped on a common trunnion to permit the modeler to set the barrels to any realistic elevation
separate set of slotted trunnions for those modelers who prefer to use their own brass barrels (brass barrels not included)

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.  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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