Scale: 1/96  

Includes 1 turret with barrels.
 
Recommended to help build USS Tennessee BB-43 or USS California BB-44 from:
Fleetscale 1/96 USS Tennessee BB-43 hull, 1943-1945 (click here)
Scale Shipyard 1/96 scale USS Tennessee BB-43 hull (click here)

This three-gun turret (more properly called a "gunhouse") represents the enormous 14"/50 caliber main battery of Tennessee class battleships:
just Turret number 3 of USS Tennessee BB-43 as she appeared throughout her service life
all four turrets of USS California BB-44 as she appeared from 1921-1941
just Turret number 3 of USS California from 1942-1945
 
Those turrets had no exterior ventilation trunks during those years.  They are nearly identical to the gunhouses of the preceding New Mexico class battleships, differing only in the shape of the armored rangefinder hoods.  A turret with exterior ventilation trunks is available separately.

These 3D-printed acrylic parts are designed to accurately represent features of the real turret based on official US Navy drawings.

Features:
closed armored rangefinder viewport shutters
rooftop screwheads acurately sized, numbered and located
armored rangefinder hexhead bolt and screw details
bases for rooftop periscopes accurately located
blast bag attchment rings with bolt and clasp detail
barrels are grouped on a trunnion to allow the modeler to set the position of the barrels to any realistic elevation from +30 degrees to -5 degrees, just like the real turrets
 
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