Scale: 1/426 (1/429 true scale to match Revell kits' true scale).
Set includes 10 mounts (turrets - 6 "single knuckle" and 4 with upper rear facet). No barrels.
Recommended to help build New Mexico class battleship USS Idaho BB-42 from:
- Revell 1/426 scale USS Arizona BB-39
- Revell 1/426 scale USS Pennsylvania BB-38
- Revell 1/426 scale Pearl Harbor Set USS Arizona, Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero, Nakajima B5N2 Kate
This set of models represents the ten 5"/38 cal. enclosed single-gun mounts fit to the battleship USS Idaho BB-42 in 1944. Idaho received a mixed set of mounts. Six of the ten mounts were typical "single-knuckle" 5"/38 cal. Mk. 30 mounts. The other four mounts were conspicuously different, of the type with the upper rear facet like those of Rudderow class and John C. Butler class destroyer escorts. This set contains the correct mix of 6 and 4. Please view the photos of USS Idaho in the carousel to see where to place each type of mount.
These 3D-printed acrylic parts are designed to accurately represent features of the real mounts based on official US Navy drawings. These mounts are not 3D-printed copies of any plastic or resin kit's parts.
Features of each mount:
- fully assembled
- scaled from official US Navy Ordnance Pamphlet 1112 drawings dated January, 1945
- accurate, asymmetrically-shaped gunhouse (turret)
- 5"/38 cal. gun trunnion barrel slot set at the loading angle of +5 degrees (barrels not included)
- 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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