Scale: 1/350

Set includes 4 directors.
 
Recommended for:
FlyHawk Model 1/350 scale HMS Prince of Wales
Mini Hobby Models 1/350 scale HMS Prince of Wales
Mini Hobby Models 1/350 scale HMS King George V
Tamiya 1/350 scale HMS King George V
Tamiya 1/350 scale HMS Prince of Wales
Trumpeter 1/350 scale HMS Queen Elizabeth 1943
Iron Shipwright 1/350 scale HMS Queen Elizabeth
Iron Shipwright 1/350 scale HMS Sirius
and more!
 
This highly detailed, properly asymmetrical, and accurate set of four Royal Navy Mark IVGB HACS Directors is meant to replace the simplified plastic kit parts of models of British battleships HMS Prince of Wales, HMS King George V, late HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant, and the battlecruiser HMS Renown.  It may be suitable for other ships that carried HACS Mk.IV directors.

This "covered top" Mk.IVGB version was normally fitted above with Type 285 radar antennas.  Radar antennas are not included - please use your favorite photo-etch radars or the kit's plastic radar parts.
 
Model Monkey King George V class products:
HMS Duke of York 1945 Enlarged Signal Deck
HMS Duke of York 1945 Aft Funnel Extended Searchlight Platform
HMS Anson 1945 Enlarged Signal Deck
HMS Howe 1945 Aft Funnel Emergency Control Station
HACS Mk.IV Directors - for HMS King George V and HMS Prince of Wales
HACS Mk.V Directors - for HMS Duke of York, HMS Howe and early HMS Anson
HACS Mk.VI Directors - for late HMS Anson
Type 271 and 273 Radar "Lanterns" (set of six)
 
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From Wikipedia: "High Angle Control System (HACS) was a British anti-aircraft fire-control system employed by the Royal Navy from 1931 onwards and used widely during World War II. HACS calculated the necessary deflection required to place an explosive shell in the location of a target flying at a known height, bearing and speed.
 
"Demonstrating the RN's rapid strides in naval AA gunnery, in May 1941, HMS Prince of Wales went to sea with HACS IVGB, with full radar ranging systems, and no less than 9 AA associated fire control radars: four Radar Type 285, one on each High Angle Director Tower (HADT) and four Radar Type 282, one on each Mk IV QF 2 pdr "pom pom" director, and a long range Radar Type 281 Warning Air (WA) radar which also had precision ranging panels for aerial and surface targets. This placed HMS Prince of Wales in the forefront of naval HA AA fire control systems at that time. In August and September 1941, HMS Prince of Wales demonstrated excellent long range radar directed AA fire during Operation Halberd. However, although the shortcomings of HACS are often blamed for the loss of Force Z, the failure of the anti-aircraft gunnery on intercepting the Japanese bombers were due to bizarre circumstances. The HACS was originally designed on Atlantic conditions on mind, not the tropics, and by December 1941, Prince of Wales's AA FC radars had become unserviceable due to the extreme heat and humidity in Malayan waters and her 2 pdr ammunition had deteriorated badly as well."