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Scale 1/72
Includes 1 turret with trunnion. No barrels.
This accurately shaped and highly detailed model represents the 8 inch, 55 caliber triple-gun turret of the US Navy's Baltimore class heavy cruisers as they appeared during World War Two.
A turret in its Vietnam War-era configuration is available separately.
Features:
- designed according to official US Navy Bureau of Ordnance publication O.P. 1112 dated 15 January 1945
- accurate shape
- separate trunnion allows the modeler to set barrels to any realistic elevation from +41 degrees to -5 degrees just like the real turret (barrels not included)
- detailed rangefinder and viewfinder hoods
- accurately sized, positioned and numbered rangefinder and viewfinder hood bolt-head details
- blast bag (also known as buckler, bloomer) attachment rings
- numbers correctly representing the part numbers welded to the turret-roof viewfinder hoods
- turret roof viewfinder hood doors correctly offset to the left
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