USS Colorado

USS Colorado at 1:300 scale assembles 2,326 compatible bricks into the lead ship of America’s ‘Big Five’ treaty battleships. Triple 16-inch turrets and the distinctive cage mast silhouette capture interwar USN aesthetics for builders aged 6+. The long hull teaches patience through repeated deck plating layers that finish with a museum-quality line. Eco-friendly ABS keeps the model display-ready beside North Carolina or Missouri kits. Perfect for collectors who want pre-WWII US battleship design before fast battleship doctrine reshaped the fleet.

Historical background

Commissioned in 1923, Colorado class ships carried eight 16-inch guns—the US Navy’s first super-heavy calibre at sea. Colorado survived Pearl Harbor undamaged and shelled Japanese positions across the Pacific, earning battle stars without the fame of carrier raids. The class represented the end of slow battleship orthodoxy before North Carolina introduced speed. Brick models preserve that transitional moment when dreadnoughts still mattered but aircraft already threatened their reign.