This set of models is recommended only for expert modelers with previous 3D-printed model building experience.  Support removal is very difficult.
 
Scale: 1/700

Recommended for:
Dragon 1/700 scale USS Arizona BB-39  (1941) 
Dragon 1/700 scale USS Arizona BB-39 + IJN Type 97 "Kate" Carrier Bomber "Pearl Harbour Attack" 7 December 1941
Dragon 1/700 scale USS Pennsylvania BB-38  (1944) 
Hobby Boss 1/700 scale USS Arizona BB-39  (1941) 
MidShip Models 1/700 scale USS Pennsylvania BB-38 (1941)
Mini Hobby Models 1/700 scale USS Arizona BB-39  (1941) 
and more!

This two-part model kit superstructure is intended to help the modeler convert any 1/700 scale USS Arizona BB-39 or USS Pennsylvania BB-38 model kit to USS Pennsylvania BB-38 in her final wartime appearance. This model represents the ship's enormous forward command and control tower with distinctive fighting top, supporting tripod, air defense station, Mk.37 fire control director bases, and signal deck.

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).

Scans of official US Navy general arrangement drawings of USS Pennsylvania BB-38 as she appeared in 1945 are available for free download from the US Navy Battleships section of our Ship Plans catalog page (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 hi-resolution photographs of the actual ship
accurately shaped decks, deckhouses and splinter shields
properly shaped navigation bridge and pilot house
accurately shaped and detailed fighting top with external bolthead detail and intricate internal structure
accurately shaped fighting top rooftop radar platform with below-platform structural details
accurately shaped air defense deck with unusual mid-deck sloped ramp
accurately positioned air defense lookout shelters with open scuttles
accurate doors in accurate positions, some doors open, with chevron-shaped rain deflectors
accurate portholes of the correct size (12" and 16"), properly positioned, with rigol (eyebrow) detail
open top flag lockers with perforated rear supports
accurately located and integrated 20mm Oerlikon ready service ammunition lockers
small, subtle raised locator disks marking 20mm Oerlikon positions (Oerlikons not included)
"battle light" detail
Mk.37 secondary battery fire control director bases (Mk.37 directors available separately)
accurately shaped and positioned twin-gun 40mm Bofors tub
heavy under-deck supporting structural details, accurately shaped and positioned
 
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