Scale: 1/490 (1/483 true scale). Some Revell/Atlantis boxart states the kit's scale to be 1/490. When compared to official US Navy plans, the models' true scale is closer to 1/483. These turrets are perfectly matched to your Revell/Atlantis kit.
Recommended to help build a Cold War-era Baltimore-class heavy cruiser from:
- Atlantis 1/490 scale USS Pittsburgh CA-72
- Revell 1/490 scale USS Boston CAG-1
- Revell 1/490 scale USS Canberra CA-70/CAG-2
- Revell 1/490 scale USS Helena CA-75
- Revell 1/490 scale USS Pittsburgh CA-72
- Revell 1/490 scale USS Los Angeles CA-135
Set includes 3 turrets with barrels.
This accurately shaped and highly detailed set represents the three 8 inch/55 caliber triple turret main battery of the US Navy's Baltimore-class heavy cruisers as they appeared during the Vietnam War.
A set of World War Two-era turrets is available separately.
Features:
- designed according to official US Navy Bureau of Ordnance publication O.P. 1112 dated 15 January 1945
- accurate shape
- separate barrels and trunnion allow the modeler to set barrels to any realistic elevation from +41 degrees to -5 degrees just like the real turret
- subtle, raised number on the inside of each turret to identify which is which
- roof-top antenna pedestal on Turrets 2 and 3
- detailed left-side rangefinder and rooftop viewfinder hoods
- accurately sized, positioned and numbered rangefinder hood bolt-head details
- blast bag (also known as "buckler" or "bloomer") attachment rings
- turret roof viewfinder hood doors correctly offset to the left
- subtle turret-side recesses representing the plated-under openings of the former World War Two-era rangefinders
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