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Also accurate for USS Pennsylvania BB-38, USS Nevada BB-36 and USS Oklahoma BB-37.

 

Scale: 1/426  (1/429 to precisely match your Revell kit's true scale).


Includes 2 fighting tops, the "Fore Top" and the "Main Top".


Recommended to help build USS Arizona BB-39 as she appeared from 1931 through 1940, from:

  • Revell 1/426 scale USS Arizona BB-39
  • Revell 1/426 scale USS Pennsylvania BB-38
  • Revell 1/426 scale Pearl Harbor Set USS Arizona, Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero, Nakajima B5N2 Kate  (# 05751)

 

These two models represent the two conspicuous fire control stations ("fighting tops") located on top of large tripods of USS Arizona BB-39, USS Pennsylvania BB-38, USS Nevada BB-36 and USS Oklahoma BB-37 as the ships appeared from their 1929-1930 reconstruction through 1940.  

 

The forward fighting top was known as the "Fore Top".  The aft fighting top was known as the "Main Top".  The Fore Top and Main Top have different rivet and reinforcing plate detail.

 

Fighting tops as they appeared on 7 December 1941 are available separately.


Features:

  • overall dimensions and features scaled from scans of official US Navy shipyard blueprints obtained from the National Archives.  Details match high resolution photographs obtained from the National Archives of USS Pennyslvania at Mare Island taken shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
  • accurate shape
  • accurately numbered, sized and located rivets of various sizes
  • accurate exterior reinforcing plates and straps
  • accurately shaped, sized and located rooftop access hatches with hinge detail


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1/426 USS Arizona BB-39 Fighting Tops, 1931-1940

SKU: 426-BB39 fighting tops 1930-1940-2
$12.00Price
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