Zeppelin P-class LZ45/LZ58 ‘Naval Raiders’
Zeppelin P-class LZ45/LZ58 ‘Naval Raiders’
Mark I Models 1:720
This injection-moulded kit contains 38 parts, including a useful model stand. A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.
Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) Zeppelin LZ45 (P-class), L13, Black L13, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Hage Airship Base, Germany, Action of 19 August 1916, summer 1916
2) Zeppelin LZ58 (P-class), LZ58, White L25, Naval Airship Division (Marine-Luftschiff-Abteilung), Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), Potsdam Airship Base, Germany, 1917
| Ref. No.: | MKM720-03 |
| Availability: | IN STOCK |
Zeppelin P-class LZ45/LZ58 ‘Naval Raiders’
Description
Rigid airships (or dirigibles) were produced and relatively successfully employed in the period from the early 1900s to the end of the 1930s.
During WWI the Zeppelin company, of Imperial Germany, built nearly one hundred uniquely designed military airships both for army and naval service. Their type and construction was characterised by particular class (A to X). During the early stages of The Great War they were utilised as a new and progressive type of attack weapon, reconnaisance and patrol craft, mainly over the Western Front.
The Zeppelin P-class airship consisted of a structural metal framework covered in doped fabric containing cells filled with a highly flammable hydrogen lifting gas. It was fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew members were carried in two suspended gondolas mounting Daimler engines and pusher propellers, while bombs were contained in internal bomb bays. A defensive front gunner was stationed in the front upper part of the airship’s body.
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Decal sheets containing national insignia and/or tricolour stripes, and/or serial numbers/letters and/or various symbols and inscriptions in 1:144th scale. Due to their generic nature they can also be used for other scales (1:72, 1:87, 1:100 etc.).
Two sheets of decals are included in this set.
Detailed product specification:
- Estonia: insignia sizes: 400,750 mm; fin flash: 250×150 mm; slanted tricolour stripes (2 types)
scale sizes: 2.8;5.2 mm; fin flash: 1.7×1.0 mm - Latvia: insignia diameters: 300,500 mm
scale diameters: 2.1;3.5 mm - Lithuania: insignia height: 580 mm
scale height: 4.0 mm
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Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) de Havilland Canada UV-18B (Series 300) Twin Otter, 77-0465 (MSN 554), AF 77465/98 (wearing WWII heritage D-Day scheme), Wings of Blue Parachute Demonstration Team, 98th Flying Training Squadron (FTS), 306th Flying Training Group (FTG), USAF Academy (USAFA), U.S. Air Force, Peterson AFB, Colorado, U.S.A., 2020-22
2) de Havilland Canada CC-138 (DHC-6 Series 300) Twin Otter, 13802 (MSN 304), 802, No.440 Transport Squadron, Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), Yellowknife Airport, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2006-15
3) Viking DHC-6 (Series 400) Twin Otter, 1730 (MSN 972), STOL Medium Transport Squadron (Escuadron de Transporte Medio), Guatemalan Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Guatemalteca, FAG), La Aurora Airport, Guatemala, 2019-23
