Scale: 1/192   (1/16 inch = 1 foot)

Set includes 4 turrets with barrels.
 
These four accurate and highly detailed model turrets represent the four 6"/47 cal. Triple-gun Turrets mounted to early Cleveland class light cruisers, those with the "round bridge".  These ships’ turrets had bolt-on armored rangefinder hoods like the turrets of the preceding Brooklyn class.  Later Cleveland class ships had turrets with integrated rangefinder hoods.  Late turrets are available separately.
 
Ships known to have these early turrets:
USS Cleveland CL-55
USS Columbia CL-56
USS Montpelier CL-57
USS Denver CL-58
USS Birmingham CL-62
USS Mobile CL-63

Features:
overall dimensions precisely scaled from scans of original builder's blueprints
accurately shaped complex curvature
open glacis gun ports
armored rangefinder hexhead bolt and domed screw details
turret bottoms are numbered for easy identification
Turrets 1 and 4, located on the main deck, have accurate crew access hatch and shell ejection ports on rear turret wall (superfiring Turrets 2 and 3 do not – crew access to Turrets 2 and 3 was made through the turret bottom overhang)
Turret 4 does not have an integrated rangefinder
 
These scale model turrets are designed from scans of original builder’s blueprints of the real turret stored at the National Archives.  They are not 3D-printed copies of any resin or plastic model kit’s parts and therefore are not the same shape or size.

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