Description

This new set is custom designed for the Trumpeter USS Massachusetts & Alabama battleship kits and contains the following items: custom fitted and pre-shaped main deck railing with pre-positioned chocks and cutouts for catapults; specialized railing in all the correct styles for upper decks; watertight doors in the correct sizes in open and closed positions; sixteen inclined ladders in two sizes; vertical ladders; SK, SK-2, SC-2, SG, Mk. 3, Mk. 8, Mk. 12, Mk. 22, & Mk. 27 radar antennas; TDY ECM antenna; two TBS antennas; propellers for OS2U and SC-1 floatplanes; two aircraft catapults; stern crane with hooks & rigging; two pairs of two different styles of boat crane booms with hooks & rigging for the first three ships of the South Dakota-class; rails and gunsights for twenty (20) 40mm Bofors; similar details for sixty (60) 20mm Oerlikons; gunsights for twelve (12) 5" dual gun mounts; paddles plus perforated bottoms for life rafts; highly detailed replacement yardarms in the correct sizes for both masts; rudders and chocks for four 26' motor whaleboats; two leadsman's platforms; four cable reels; two anchor hawsepipe screens with spares; anchor capstan brakewheels in two styles with spares; replacement bridge with see-through fold-to-shape windshield frames, six Stokes stretchers, and eight life preservers plus an assortment of eyebolts and turnbuckles for superdetailing the ship's rigging. Numerous spare parts are included in the event of loss or damage.