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					<item><title>Mark I Models MKM144154</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM144154</link>
<description>Lavochkin La-7/S-97 &#039;Post-war Service&#039; (2in1) WAS £17.99. TEMPORARILY SAVE 1/3RD!!!. Price:&amp;pound;11.99</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:17:35 GMT</pubDate>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM144126</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM144126</link>
<description>Curtiss H-75A-4/A-8/P-36G &#039;Late Hawks&#039; (2in1 = 2 kits in 1 box) (Finnish AF, Norwegian AAS, RAF, USAAF) WAS £18.40. TEMPORARILY SAVE 1/3RD!!! 
	
The Curtiss H-75 was the export version of the American P-36 Hawk (Curtiss Model 75) fighter of the mid-1930s. The biggest foreign customer was France, where the first planes entered service in the spring of 1939. Of the fourth French sub-variant ordered, the H-75A-4 (H-751), only a handful reached the country before it surrendered to Nazi Germany in June 1940 while the rest of 190 a/c were taken over by the RAF as the Mohawk IV.
In March 1940 Norway ordered 36 H-75A-8s, but in the event they did not reach Europe and were used as advanced trainers in Canada. Of these, 30 a/c were bought by the USAAF in 1942 and after a short service they were sold to Peru.
The H-75A-4/8 was a single-seat, all-metal low-wing monoplane with fabric-covered control surfaces. It had a retractable undercarriage with the main landing gear rotated 90° to fold flat into the wing. Powered by a Wright R-1820 Cyclone single-row radial engine, it was fitted with Curtiss Electric propeller. Its armament consisted of two machine guns in the nose and another two guns in each wing. Racks for two to five bombs could also be mounted under each outer section of the wing.
Following the fall of France a number of Curtiss H-75 aircraft were seized by Germans and some of them were used by the Luftwaffe for pilot training. In the summer of 1941 the first batch of ex-French H-75s, including seven H-751s, were sold to Finland, which extensively used them against Soviet forces.

Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Curtiss H-75A-4, CUc-504, (ex-French H-751 No.24/ex-Luftwaffe DS+NQ), 1/LeLv 12 (Fighter Sq.), Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat), Joroinen airfield, Finland, summer 1941
2)	Curtiss H-75A-8, No. 465, &#039;Little Norway&#039; Air Force Training Camp, Norwegian Army Air Service (HÃ¦rens flyvÃ¥pen), Toronto Island Airport, Ontario, Canada, 1942-43
3)	Curtiss Mohawk Mk.IV, BS734, White 14, Air Transport Auxiliary Flight, Royal Air Force, Wroughton airfield, Wiltshire, U.K., 1941
4)	Curtiss P-36G (ex-Norwegian H-75A-8), s/n 42-108995, Yellow 2108995, USAAF, Patterson Field, Ohio, U.S.A., early 1943

Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 23 parts and four clear parts (the cockpit canopy, rear windows and a landing light). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.. Price:&amp;pound;12.27</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 16:32:12 GMT</pubDate>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-11</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-11</link>
<description>K-type Blimp (K-19/43/125) &#039;Special Markings&#039; USUALLY £19.70. TEMPORARILY HALF PRICE!!! Non-rigid airships (or blimps) were the first types of lighter-than-air craft. Since the turn of the 20th century, they have been employed on a large scale by armed forces and also engaged commercially.
The Goodyear Aircraft Company, the foremost producer of airships in the United States, produced a series of K-class airships which became the backbone of the US Navy&#039;s airship fleet in WWII. Developed from earlier 1930s designs, the prototype ZNP-K-2 first flew in December 1938 and the production was started two years later. A total of 134 airships in four production batches had been built by the end of 1944.
The K-type airship consisted of a fabric covered envelope containing the lifting gas and two internal ballonets. It was fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew was carried in a control car (gondola), attached flush to the underside of the envelope. It was fitted with a forward firing Browning M2 machine gun while four Mk.47 depth charges could be mounted on two external carriers and in an internal bomb bay. Radar and magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) equipment was also fitted. The ship was powered by two Pratt &amp; Whitney Wasp engines, turning tractor propellers.
The K-type blimps were used for anti-submarine patrols and convoy escorts in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. Post-war, the Navy&#039;s LTA programme continued, with many ships modified with more advanced electronics, radar search systems and increased capacity envelope. In 1947, the upgraded ships were designated ZP2K and ZP3K and after 1954 they became ZSG-2 and ZSG-3, respectively. The last K-class airship retired in March 1959.

Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Goodyear ZPK-19 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 04369, Black K-19, Blimp Squadron ZP-2, Fleet Airship Wing 1 (FASW-1), US Navy, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, U.S.A., seen during the first official celebration of Armed Forces Day at Annapolis, Maryland, on 20 May 1950
2)	Goodyear ZSG-3-43 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 30165, Black 43, Blimp Squadron ZP-2, Fleet Airship Wing 1 (FASW-1), US Navy, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, U.S.A., recorded during a recruiting circle trip, NAS Moffett Field, California, December 1955
3)	Goodyear ZSG-3-125 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo not received, Black K-125, Reserve Patrol Squadron ZP-951, Naval Air Reserve Training Unit (NARTU), LTA (Lighter Than Air), US Navy, Marine Corps Air Facility, Santa Ana, California, U.S.A., summer 1955.

This injection-moulded kit contains 17 parts, including a mobile mooring mast. A towing tractor (4 resin parts) is provided. For modeller&#039;s convenience a display base, made of pasteboard card, depicting a section of the military airfield is added. A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;9.85</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-11</guid>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-09</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-09</link>
<description>K-type Blimp (K-3/6/28) &#039;Early Production&#039; USUALLY £19.70. TEMPORARILY SAVE 1/3RD!!! Non-rigid airships (or blimps) were the first types of lighter-than-air craft. Since the turn of the 20th century, they have been employed on a large scale by armed forces and also engaged commercially.

The Goodyear Aircraft Company, the foremost producer of airships in the United States, produced a series of K-class airships which became the backbone of the US Navy&#039;s airship fleet in WWII. Developed from earlier 1930s designs, the prototype ZNP-K-2 first flew in December 1938 and the production was started two years later. A total of 134 airships in four production batches had been built by the end of 1944.

The K-type airship consisted of a fabric covered envelope containing the lifting gas and two internal ballonets. It was fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew was carried in a control car (gondola), attached flush to the underside of the envelope. It was fitted with a forward firing Browning M2 machine gun while four Mk.47 depth charges could be mounted on two external carriers and in an internal bomb bay. Radar and magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) equipment was also fitted. The ship was powered by two Pratt &amp; Whitney Wasp engines, turning tractor propellers.

The K-type blimps were used for anti-submarine patrols and convoy escorts in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. Post-war, the Navy&#039;s LTA programme continued, with many ships modified with more advanced electronics, radar search systems and increased capacity envelope. In 1947, the upgraded ships were designated ZP2K and ZP3K and after 1954 they became ZSG-2 and ZSG-3, respectively. The last K-class airship retired in March 1959.

Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Goodyear ZNP-K-3 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 7025, Blue K-3, Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-12, Airship Patrol Group 1 (APG 1), US Navy, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, U.S.A., early 1942
2)	Goodyear ZNP-K-6 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 7028, Blue K-6, Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-12, Airship Patrol Group 1 (APG 1), US Navy, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, U.S.A., spring 1942 
3)	Goodyear ZNP-K-28 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 04378, Blue K-28, Blimp Squadron ZP-24 (Blimpron 24), Fleet Airship Wing 1 (FASW 1), Fleet Airships Atlantic (FASA), US Navy, Naval Air Station Weeksville, North Carolina, U.S.A., summer 1944

This injection-moulded kit contains 17 parts, including a mobile mooring mast. A towing tractor (4 resin parts) is provided. For modeller&#039;s convenience a display base, made of pasteboard card, depicting a section of the military airfield is added. A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;13.13</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-09</guid>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM720-10</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-10</link>
<description>K-type Blimp (K-74/112/134) &#039;Fleet Defender&#039; USUALLY £19.70. TEMPORARILY SAVE 1/3RD!!! Non-rigid airships (or blimps) were the first types of lighter-than-air craft. Since the turn of the 20th century, they have been employed on a large scale by armed forces and also engaged commercially.

The Goodyear Aircraft Company, the foremost producer of airships in the United States, produced a series of K-class airships which became the backbone of the US Navy&#039;s airship fleet in WWII. Developed from earlier 1930s designs, the prototype ZNP-K-2 first flew in December 1938 and the production was started two years later. A total of 134 airships in four production batches had been built by the end of 1944.

The K-type airship consisted of a fabric covered envelope containing the lifting gas and two internal ballonets. It was fitted with vertical tailfins and horizontal tailplanes with control surfaces. The crew was carried in a control car (gondola), attached flush to the underside of the envelope. It was fitted with a forward firing Browning M2 machine gun while four Mk.47 depth charges could be mounted on two external carriers and in an internal bomb bay. Radar and magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) equipment was also fitted. The ship was powered by two Pratt &amp; Whitney Wasp engines, turning tractor propellers.

The K-type blimps were used for anti-submarine patrols and convoy escorts in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. Post-war, the Navy&#039;s LTA programme continued, with many ships modified with more advanced electronics, radar search systems and increased capacity envelope. In 1947, the upgraded ships were designated ZP2K and ZP3K and after 1954 they became ZSG-2 and ZSG-3, respectively. The last K-class airship retired in March 1959.

Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Goodyear ZNP-K-74 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 30196, Blue K-74, Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-21/Blimp Squadron ZP-21 (Blimpron 21), Airship Patrol Group 2 (APG 2)/Fleet Airship Wing 2 (FASW 2), Fleet Airships Atlantic (FASA), US Navy, Naval Air Station Richmond, Det. NAS Key West, Florida, U.S.A., June/July 1943
2)	Goodyear ZNP-K-112 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo 33504, Blue K-112, Blimp Squadron ZP-14 (Blimpron 14, &quot;The Africa Squadron&quot;), Fleet Airship Wing 1 (FASW 1), Fleet Airships Atlantic (FASA), US Navy, Craw Field, Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco, North Africa, July 1944 and Cuers-Pierrefeu Naval Air Base (Base d&#039;aéronautique navale, BAN), Var Department, France, September/October 1944
3)	Goodyear ZNP-K-134 (K-type) Blimp, BuNo not received, Blue K-134, Blimp Squadron ZP-14 (Blimpron 14, &quot;The Africa Squadron&quot;), Fleet Airship Wing 1 (FASW 1), Fleet Airships Atlantic (FASA), US Navy, Craw Field, Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, French Morocco, North Africa, summer 1944 and La Sénia airfield, Oran, Algeria, North Africa, December 1944

This injection-moulded kit contains 17 parts, including a mobile mooring mast. A towing tractor (4 resin parts) is provided. For modeller&#039;s convenience a display base, made of pasteboard card, depicting a section of the military airfield is added. A comprehensive instruction leaflet and a decal sheet are included.. Price:&amp;pound;13.13</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM720-10</guid>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM144110</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM144110</link>
<description>Hawker Tempest Mk.V series 2 &#039;Fierce Fighter&#039; (2in1) (Royal Air Force) WAS £18.40. TEMPORARILY SAVE 1/3RD!!! 
	
The Hawker Tempest Mk.V was the RAF&#039;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.
It was a single-seat monoplane aircraft, of all metal construction, powered by a Napier Sabre II engine. DH or Rotol four-bladed propellers were used. It featured a bubble canopy and a retractable undercarriage. The Srs.1 aircraft had four long-barrelled 20mm Hispano cannons in the wings, while the later Tempests had cannons without projecting barrels. The Srs.2 aircraft could also carry 45-gal drop tanks. In its later guise, the Tempest could perform as a fighter-bomber, carrying a wide variety of bombs up to 1000 lbs. From early 1945 it was cleared for rocket firing and combinations of 25lb or 60lb RP could be carried.
Tempest Mk.Vs were delivered to the RAF and RNZAF squadrons between April 1944 and July 1945, ultimately equipping nine fighter units and one auxiliary squadron. 
During the advance of Allied forces into Germany, ground attacks, close-support sorties and pursuit of Luftwaffe aircraft were the main tasks of the Tempests. After VE-Day the Tempest Mk.Vs soldiered on with seven squadrons of BAFO in Germany, and the last units retained their aircraft until early 1948.



Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Hawker Tempest Mk.V (Srs.2), EJ555, Sky JJ-W, &#039;Bet&#039;, No.174 Sq., Royal Air Force, British Air Forces of Occupation (BAFO), Dedelstorf Air Base (B-155), Germany, September 1945
2)	Hawker Tempest Mk.V (Srs.2), NV716, Sky J5-X, No.3 Sq., Royal Air Force, British Air Forces of Occupation (BAFO), Gatow Air Base, Germany, spring 1946
3)	Hawker Tempest Mk.V (Srs.2), SN213, Black 5R-S, No.33 Sq., Royal Air Force, British Air Forces of Occupation (BAFO), Gatow Air Base, Germany, February 1946
4)	Hawker Tempest Mk.V (Srs.2), SN326, Sky W2-L, &#039;Betty&#039;, No.80 Sq., Royal Air Force, Volkel airfield (B-80), the Netherlands, early 1945

Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 42 parts and one clear part (the cockpit canopy). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.. Price:&amp;pound;12.27</description>
<author>sales@hannants.co.uk</author>
<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM144110</guid>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM144111</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM144111</link>
<description>Hawker Tempest Mk.V/TT.5 &#039;In final roles&#039; (2in1) USUALLY £18.40 TEMPORARILY SAVE 1/3RD!!!. Price:&amp;pound;12.27</description>
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<guid>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM144111</guid>
</item><item><title>Mark I Models MKM144138</title>
<link>http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MKM144138</link>
<description>Hawker Tempest F.6 &#039;Middle East Operations&#039; WAS £19.99. TEMPORARILY SAVE 1/3RD!!!

The Hawker Tempest Mk.VI was the RAF&#039;s piston-engined fighter, which evolved as a Mk.V development with a more powerful Sabre VÂ engine. Its prototype first flew in May 1944, while the first aircraft were available in July â‚‹ August 1945.

As with other Tempests, Mk.VI orders were reduced when the war ended. Of 300 plus aircraft only 142 were actually built. They were delivered to five RAF squadrons in the Middle East in 1946/47 â‚‹ Nos.247 and 6 Squadrons being the first, followed by Nos. 213, 8 and 39. 
The Tempest Mk.VI was a single-seat monoplane aircraft, of all metal construction, powered by a Napier Sabre VÂ or VA engine. DH or Rotol four-bladed propellers were used. It featured a bubble canopy and a retractable undercarriage. Compared to the Mk.V it had carburettor air intakes repositioned to the wing roots, oil cooler placed behind the the coolant radiator and additional oil coolant radiator installed in the starboard wing. It was fitted with four 20mm Hispano cannons in the wings and it could carry 45-gal or 90-gal drop tanks. The Tempest could also perform as a fighter-bomber, carrying a wide variety of bombs up to 1000 lbs. 

The Tempest Mk.VIs (re-designated F Mk.6 in mid-1947) were involved in such delicate actions in the ME region, such as Canal Zone defence, the British Palestine handover, Israeli-Egyptian hostilities and unrests in Iraq and Eritrea. By March 1950 all the units gave up their Tempests.




Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) 	Hawker Tempest F Mk.6, NX129, Sky JV-D, No.6 Sq., Royal Air Force, RAF Station Khartoum, Sudan, spring 1948
2)	Hawker Tempest F Mk.6, NX143, Red GN-H, No.249 &#039;Gold Coast&#039; Sq., Royal Air Force, Habbaniya Air Base, Iraq, 1947
3)	Hawker Tempest F Mk.6, NX151, White E, No.213 &#039;Ceylon&#039; Sq., Royal Air Force, RAF Station Deversoir (Abu Sultan), Egypt, 1949
4)	Hawker Tempest F Mk.6, NX135, Black V, No.6 Sq., Royal Air Force, detachment at RAF Station Nicosia, Cyprus, early 1949


This injection-moulded kit (one model is included) contains 37 parts, 3 resin parts (the wing, the radiator and a Pitot tube) and one clear part (the cockpit canopy). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.. Price:&amp;pound;13.33</description>
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