Dual 5"38s

Posted by Bill Oreto on 12th Jul 2015

I thought these to be excellent especially in how the barrel end that meets the turret face is a "C" coupling, allowing you to vary the barrel elevations. Too many offerings' barrels do not fit their turret faces. The view scopes were all nicely done. I thought the access hatches could have been raised "just a hair" so that they would stand out better after painting and the addition of flatten climb rungs in the rear of the turret would have added to level of close-up detail when turrets are traversed inboard or open mounted (CV decks, destroyers etc.)
These turrets surpass the foreign imports, who may have provided brass barrels but with no clear cut manner to adhere barrel to turret (so much for brass barrels and lack of quality control) and whose turret skin details were slightly under scale, wrong shape. This 3D Model Parts turret is superior to anything offered in my opinion and I plan to buy more.