Scale: 1/192 (1/16 inch = 1 foot)
Set includes 2 mounts (turrets) with barrels.
Recommended for:
- Bluejacket Shipcrafters 1/192 scale USS Samuel B. Roberts DE-413
- and more!
Designed with upper, aft facet, specifically for John C. Butler and Rudderow class destroyer escorts. One Edsall class ship (USS Camp DE-251) and eleven Buckley class ships received two of these mounts during refits. This type was also fit to the New Mexico class battleship USS Idaho BB-42.
Among naval historians, the US Navy 5"/38 caliber gun is considered the best intermediate-caliber, dual purpose naval gun of World War II. Two 5-inch/38 Mk.30 single mounts were normally fitted to Rudderow and John C. Butler class destroyer escorts, one forward and one aft.
Features:
- scaled from official US Navy drawings
- accurate, asymmetrically-shaped gunhouse (turret)
- separate barrel and trunnion to allow the modeler to set the gun at any realistic elevation
- accurately offset gun opening
- accurate glacis (forward face) stiffener detail
- access hatches and viewports with hinge, clasp ("dog") and bolt detail
- detailed turret bottom supporting structure with accurately placed bolt-head detail
- rear vent and shell ejection chute
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