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Scale: 1/200
Contains 1 turret with barrels.
Recommended for GPM 1/200 scale USS North Carolina BB-55 (1944-1945)
This three-gun turret (more properly called a "gunhouse") represents the enormous main battery of battleships USS North Carolina BB-55 and USS Washington BB-56.
The turrets are costly due to the extraordinary amount of acrylic plastic extruded by the printer and the time required to print them. Unfortunately, they cannot be printed in other, less-costly materials while preserving their exceptional detail.
These 3D-printed acrylic parts are designed to accurately represent features of the real turret based on original builder's blueprints and measurements made of an actual turret on USS North Carolina. They are not 3D-printed copies of any plastic, resin or paper kit's parts and therefore may be shaped and sized differently than those parts. Some adjustment to your plastic kit's parts or other aftermarket parts such as photoetch or wood decks may be necessary for best fit.
Features:
Click here for cleaning and painting advice.
© Model Monkey Book and Hobby. This 3D-printed item may not be copied or recast.
Scale: 1/200
Contains 1 turret with barrels.
Recommended for GPM 1/200 scale USS North Carolina BB-55 (1944-1945)
This three-gun turret (more properly called a "gunhouse") represents the enormous main battery of battleships USS North Carolina BB-55 and USS Washington BB-56.
The turrets are costly due to the extraordinary amount of acrylic plastic extruded by the printer and the time required to print them. Unfortunately, they cannot be printed in other, less-costly materials while preserving their exceptional detail.
These 3D-printed acrylic parts are designed to accurately represent features of the real turret based on original builder's blueprints and measurements made of an actual turret on USS North Carolina. They are not 3D-printed copies of any plastic, resin or paper kit's parts and therefore may be shaped and sized differently than those parts. Some adjustment to your plastic kit's parts or other aftermarket parts such as photoetch or wood decks may be necessary for best fit.
Features:
- scaled from scans of original builder's blueprints. Dimensions and details confirmed by measurements taken from actual gunhouses on USS North Carolina BB-55 preserved as a museum ship at Wilmington, North Carolina
- open armored rangefinder viewport shutters
- rangefinders with telescopic sights visible through the open shutters of the armored covers
- rooftop screwheads accurately sized, numbered and located
- armored rangefinder hexhead bolt and screw details
- detailed rooftop periscopes
- accurately sized and shaped ventilation trunks
- detailed turret-bottom crew access hatch, accurately offset slightly to the left
- barrels grouped on a trunnion to allow the modeler to set the position of the barrels to any realistic elevation from +45 degrees to -1 degree, just like the real turret
Click here for cleaning and painting advice.
© Model Monkey Book and Hobby. This 3D-printed item may not be copied or recast.
