Scale: 1/700

Set includes 4 mounts (turrets).  No barrels.

Recommended to build a US Navy Sims class destroyer, or Benson or Gleaves class destroyer, DD-421 through DD-444 from:
Dragon 1/700 scale USS Buchanan DD-484 & USS Lansdowne DD-486 1945
Dragon 1/700 scale USS Livermore & USS Monssen 1942
Dragon 1/700 scale USS Laffey DD-459 1942  
Jim Shirley Productions 1/700 scale USS Sims DD 409
Naval Works 1/700 scale USS Sims DD-409
Nico Model 1/700 scale USS Hughes DD-410 1942
Pit-Road 1/700 scale USS Benson DD-421
Pit-Road 1/700 scale USS Caldwell DD-605
Pit-Road 1/700 scale USS Livermore DD-429
Pit-Raod 1/700 scale USS Monssen DD-436
Pit-Road 1/700 scale Asakaze I DD-181 with Photo Etched Parts 
Tamiya 1/700 scale USS Hammann DD-412 Waterline 
 
These four models represent one type of the US Navy's 5 inch, 38 caliber Mk.30 single-gun mount (turret) with steel shield and canvas top fit in a superfiring position aft to some Sims class, Benson class and Gleaves class destroyers circa 1941.  The Benson class destroyer USS Madison DD-425, for example, carried this mount. These 3D-printed mounts offer the modeler the ability to accurately build many other ships of the Benson and Gleaves classes.

Noted naval historian Rick E. Davis reports that this mount set is correct for some Sims class and Benson-Geaves class ships USS Benson, USS Livermore, USS Gwin, USS Mayo, USS Madison, among other early ships, basically any of the original BENSON-GLEAVES class destroyers DD-421 through DD-444. 

Features: 
overall dimensions scaled from official US Navy drawings
details confirmed from careful study of National Archives photographs provided by noted naval historian Rick E. Davis
accurately shaped asymmetrical gunhouse (turret)
accurately offset gun opening
detailed turret bottom supporting structure
bolthead detail
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These 3D-printed mounts are designed to match the overall dimensions of features of the real mounts as recorded in official Navy drawings.  They are not copies of any injection molded plastic or resin kits' parts and therefore may be differently shaped and sized.  Some adjustment to your kit, or other aftermarket products such as photoetch, may be necessary for best fit.

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