Using SketchUp to Create a 1:72 Scale Model of an Iowa Class 16" Battleship Turret

Thank you for giving excellent detailed updates and the final result is amazing.

I am also working on a similar project and was hoping to get some help, if you don’t mind. I just cannot seem to get the Gun slide and yoke to look right and I think my dimensions are way off. Do you have any suggestions?

This thing is mind-blowing! Amazing labor and craftsmanship! :open_mouth:

I’m attaching the SU file of the gun and the photo that really helped me get the geometry close. I’m sure it’s still not perfect. That said, it’s buried in the bowels of the gun house with the close partitions so you can see much beyond the stuff on the top.

Mo Gun~.skp (3.5 MB)

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Let me know if you need any more assistence.

Yeah, but I know its there…which drives me crazy.

Thank you very much for the file. It made a world of difference and I’m more comfortable about proportioning etc. Thank you again.

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Happy to have helped! The gun slide geometry was very non-intuitive, and was not easy to pull off in SU.

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Beautiful work.