Scale: 1/350

Set includes 4 turrets (no barrels).

Recommended to help build an early Cleveland class light cruiser from:
Blue Ridge Models 1/350 scale USS Cleveland CL-55
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale USS Birmingham CL-62 (1944)
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 early, "round bridge" Cleveland class light cruisers.  "Round bridge" ships’ turrets had bolt-on armored rangefinder hoods like the turrets of the preceding Brooklyn class.  Later Cleveland class ships, those with the "square bridge", had turrets with integrated, welded rangefinder hoods.  Late turrets for "square 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 early configuration turrets:
USS Cleveland CL-55
USS Columbia CL-56
USS Montpelier CL-57
USS Denver CL-58
USS Birmingham CL-62
USS Mobile CL-63

Features:
overall dimensions precisely scaled from scans of original builder's blueprints
accurately shaped complex curvature
open glacis gun ports
armored rangefinder hexhead bolt and domed screw details
turret side rivet and weld line detail
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 to 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 held by 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.