Scale: 1/500

Set includes 4 turrets and trunnions.  No barrels.
 
Until late 1941, the Lexington class aircraft carriers USS Lexington CV-2 and USS Saratoga CV-3 carried four twin 8"/55 caliber turrets.  The upper two turrets were fit with rangefinders.  The lower two turrets were not.

These turrets are not suitable for models of US Navy cruisers of World War Two.  Those ships carried 8"/55 cal. turrets of a different design, available separately.

Features:
overall dimensions accurately scaled from official US Navy drawings
accurately shaped armored rangefinder hoods
six crew access doors with raised hinge, rain deflector and dog details
158 hex-head exterior bolts properly sized, numbered and positioned according to photos of the actual turrets
separate trunnion, slotted for your favorite brass barrels (barrels not included) to allow you to position the guns to any realistic elevation from -5 degrees to +40 degress just like the real turret
turret-back shell ejector ports
turret-bottom breech well
heavy turret-bottom supporting structure per photos of the actual turrets
 
These turrets are not 3D-printed copies of plastic kit parts but are original designs based on Navy references.

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