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Scale: 1/144

Includes 1 turret with barrels.

This three-gun turret (more properly called a "gunhouse") represents the enormous main battery of the Iowa class battleships.  This set is suitable for models of USS Iowa BB-61, USS New Jersey BB-62, USS Missouri BB-63, USS Wisconsin BB-64 and the incomplete USS Kentucky BB-65 and USS Illinois BB-66. 

This model is also suitable for the proposed Montana class battleships which would have been fit with 4 of these enormous turrets.

Features:
	
dimensions scaled from scans of original builder's blueprints and confirmed by measurements taken from actual gunhouses on the real ships
	
barrels integrated with a trunnion permitting the modeler to set the barrels to any realistic elevation from +45 degrees to -2 degrees, just like the real turrets
	
open armored rangefinder viewport shutters
	
rangefinders with telescopic sights visible through the open shutters of the armored covers
	
armored rangefinder hexhead bolt and domed screw details
	
detailed rooftop periscopes
	
asymmetrical underside ventilation trunks (as-built 1943-1945 configuration)
	
detailed turret-bottom crew access hatches
	
turret roof plate screws, properly numbered, sized and located
 
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