Joy Yard is coming out with a 1/350 scale USS Ohio MONTANA class battleship model with 18" guns. The picture below may say a 2023 release date, but I think this may have been a typo error. So the kit may come out in 2024 instead. This model will have four 2-gun turrets. Eight 18" inch guns total. The Montana class battleships never had 18" guns. But I think they were proposed very early on in the design phase. Ultimately, the Montana class went with the same 16" gun turrets that the Iowa class battleships had.

Nice looking ship. Somehow those funnel baffles, if that's the correct word, give them a slightly Kriegsmarine look.

looks "wrong" with the twin mounts, but what a ship and model. 

Four triple 16 inch turrets would be wild!

Quote from: kerick on December 24, 2023, 07:24:47 AMFour triple 16 inch turrets would be wild!

And one helluva blastwave.  In the Admiral's stateroom on the NJ, there's a model of Montana with that particular loadout.

Gotta love whifs in the box

Quote from: sandiego89 on December 24, 2023, 05:41:37 AMlooks "wrong" with the twin mounts, but what a ship and model. 

If I'm not too mistaken, there were some very early preliminary studies of having the Montana and/or Iowa class with either four 18" 2-gun turrets or four 18" 3-gun turrets before the Navy ultimately went with final designs to have the Montana class use the same 16" gun turrets as the Iowa class had.
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_18-48_mk1.php

Quote from: scooter on December 24, 2023, 07:28:50 AM

Quote from: kerick on December 24, 2023, 07:24:47 AMFour triple 16 inch turrets would be wild!

And one helluva blastwave.  In the Admiral's stateroom on the NJ, there's a model of Montana with that particular loadout.

Gotta love whifs in the box

If that's the same model as the one shown in the below picture, it's wrong!    The below model looks absolutely NOTHING like a Montana class battleship. It's more of a stretched Iowa class.

The funnel caps do make the vessel look very Kreigsmarine.

  The throw-weight of a full four turret  8 by 18 inch gun broadside would be something like  12 tons (assuming that the gun is not dissimilar from the Royal Navy  BL 18 inch mk1)  which is pretty much the same as the  actual three turret , nine 16 inch gun broadside.   However a four turret vessel would probably be heavier and introduce the complications of a whole extra range of spare parts and a logistical hiccup for the fleet train.

But this is Whiffworld,  and such practical problems can be set aside with an airy wave of the hand.

Quote from: Rheged on December 24, 2023, 09:30:05 AMand such practical problems can be set aside with an airy wave of the hand.

But isn't that what senior management do ? 

The Great Leap Forward slogan style text is hilarious.

The Montana superstructure, as I recall, was going back to the North Carolina layout, as the SoDak/Iowa design was considered too compact.

They would not have simply been a stretched Iowa, though that's generally the most common way they've been modeled.  If I ever do, I'll combine a North Carolina and an Iowa with new secondaries, and it has to have a lowered quarterdeck because that looks cool and reduces topweight.

One of these years I'll get the Dulin/Garzke American Battleships book; I have read it is being updated for a new release with the final dispositions of the Iowas.