1/2400 Battleship Turrets

[JasonAfrika]

Can anyone please suggest the largest/best dual battleship turrets that can be bought as spare parts and used as shore batteries for an operational level board game? Thanks in advance.

[STS]

If you really want dual turrets, the largest out there are probably the 406mm SKC/34 from the H-39 battleship. Most other navies had/were planning to use their big guns in turrets of 3-4 guns (e.g. Yamato, Missouri, Lion). The SKC/34 were even used in a shore-battery capacity, in Norway and France, although never as a dual turret.

[Donald M. Scheef]

Limiting the discussion to mounts actually used as shore defense batteries, the only examples I can find are four twin 12-inch turrets on the island of Helgoland. The guns were 30.5 cm SK L/50, essentially identical to those used on Helgoland, Kaiser, Koenig, Derfflinger, and Lutzow. Going to triple mounts would add the three 28 cm SK C/34 removed from Scharnhorst & mounted in Norway and two of the 14-inch mounts removed from Arizona & mounted at Kahe Point and Mokapu Point in Hawaii.
Don S.

[STS]

While not really a "shore" battery, there was also the "concrete battleship" Fort Drum, which mounted 2 14" dual gun turrets. (*cough* shapeways *cough*)