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Converting a Mk33 twin 3"/50 gun mount..
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:57 am
by jepot
.. to a single Mk 34 3"/50 gun mount in 1/700 scale, thats the project im going to start soon. the 1/700 scale Mk33 guns by Skywave i have from their Modern Weapons set are not quite exactly what i need to the ship im building, so there.
Does anyone know if the turrets of either Mk 33 and Mk 34 are just the same in size? or do i have to do major surgery in itsy bitsy scale to conver the Mk 33 turret to a Mk34 one?
thanks all!

Re: Converting a Mk33 twin 3"/50 gun mount..
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 7:39 pm
by jepot
after 5 years time to bump this thread---any one?thanks!
Re: Converting a Mk33 twin 3"/50 gun mount..
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 8:29 am
by jepot
unfortunately the closed ones; the nearest kit turrets are the twin gunned ones in the Trumpy old Blue Ridge kit- trying to figure out if i can make it to a single gun turret ( unless like i said there is a kit of such out there)....
Re: Converting a Mk33 twin 3"/50 gun mount..
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:27 am
by jepot
DavidP wrote:start carving up the twin enclosure into a single.
thus it seems there is no easy way out on this query of mine....

Re: Converting a Mk33 twin 3"/50 gun mount..
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 11:40 am
by jepot
DavidP wrote:start carving up the twin enclosure into a single.
exactly just what i did...after several false starts and more than 2 years since the recommendation:
seems to have been no other way as there are no kits of this gun in 1/700...
Re: Converting a Mk33 twin 3"/50 gun mount..
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2023 11:21 pm
by jepot
after 15 years or so, i finally found the Mk 33 twin from a Skywave JMSDF weapons set - and managed to convert it...
now, i can finally make this....