1/144 Hawker Tempest Mk V/V1 Aircraft (2 in 1)

Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 46 parts and one clear part (the cockpit canopy). A comprehensive decal sheet is included. A resin kit of the ‘Buzz bomb’ (produced by Brengun), containing 6 parts, and a display base (made of pasteboard card), depicting grassy field, are added for modeller’s convenience.

The Hawker Tempest Mk.V was the RAF’s last piston-engined fighter used in the WWII, attaining great success in destruction of the German V-1 flying bombs. Developed in late 1941 from the troublesome Typhoon interceptor, the prototype flew in September 1942. The first order was for 400 Tempests, produced as the Mk.V Series 1 (100 a/c by Hawker) and Series 2 (300 a/c by Gloster); the first aircraft were completed in mid-1943. A further two orders for Hawker-built Mk.V Srs.2 aeroplanes raised the total of the Tempests produced to 801.