Scale: 1/200

Recommended to help build USS Pennsylvania BB-38, as she appeared in 1945, from:
Fujimi 1/200 scale USS Arizona BB-39
Trumpeter 1/200 scale USS Arizona BB-39
and more!

This model kit superstructure is intended to help the modeler convert your 1/200 scale USS Arizona BB-39 model kit to sistership USS Pennsylvania BB-38 in her final wartime appearance. This model represents the ship's aft fire control tower.

Instructions describing how to convert your USS Arizona kit to USS Pennsylvania are not provided with this product when shipped to you.  Please study the images shown in the carousel on this webpage to learn where each part goes, as well as online references such as photographs of USS Pennsylvania BB-38 found on NavSource (click here).
 
 
A set of detailed, scale plans of USS Pennsylvania BB-38 as she appeared in 1945 are available from The Floating Drydock (click here).
 
Features:
fully assembled
overall dimensions and features scaled from official US Navy drawings.  Overall dimensions match scaled drawings by Thomas Walkowiak with details adjusted to match high-resolution photographs of the actual ship
accurately shaped platforms and Bofors tub' splinter shields
doors of the correct 3-bar type accurately located, some doors open, with chevron-shaped rain deflectors
accurate portholes of the correct size (16"), properly positioned
accurately shaped and positioned quadruple 40mm Bofors tubs (quadruple 40mm Bofors mounts not included)
integrated aft mast
antenna trunks
36" searchlights
open flag lockers

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