Scale: 1/500

Set includes 6 lanterns (3 round style and 3 octagonal).
 
This multi-part set represents the protective perspex "lantern" housings for the exceptional Royal Navy Type 271 and Type 273 target indication radars. This feature is often missing from plastic model kits and oversimplified in others.

On King George V class battleships, for example, they can often be found mounted between the forward HACS directors or on the foremast starfish, especially before 1944.  On HMS Rodney, it was found on the mainmast starfish.  It is known to have been carried on the battlecruiser HMS Renown and some battleships of the Queen Elizabeth class and "R" class.  This was also a common feature found on County class and Town class cruisers, Dido class light cruisers, and escorts including the famous Flower class corvettes and Kingfisher class sloops of the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Australian Navy. 

There were many varieties of perspex housing.  This set represents two of the most common kinds, one circular and one octagonal, installed on major Royal Navy World War II combatants.  Consult your references to know which of these two is most appropriate for your model.

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From Wikipedia: "Type 271 was the original naval centimetric target indication radar, later fitted with a plan position indicator. Modifications P and Q were known as the "Centimetric Mark IV". It had separate transmit and receive aerials, small parabolic dishes stacked on top of each other, and referred to as "cheese" after their shape. The antenna array was carried in a distinctive protective perspex "lantern", and initially had to be fitted directly onto the radar office roof due to limitations in coaxial cabling (until suitable  waveguides  had been developed). The Type 271 was a vitally important war weapon, as for the first time it allowed escort ships to reliably detect surfaced U-boats or even just their periscopes. It was first fitted in  HMS Orchis. 350 sets were ordered.[4] It was fitted widely to escort vessels of corvette and frigate size.

"Type 273 "Centimetric Mark IV" target indication set. This set was based on the Type 271, but was intended for major warships of cruiser and battleship size. It used side-by-side 3 feet (910 mm) wide cheese antennas that were carried in a distinctive protective perspex "lantern". In the Battle of the North Cape, HMS Duke of York identified the target of Scharnhorst at 45,000 yards (41,000 m) using her Type 273 set.[5]"
 
Recommended for:
Academy 1/350 scale HMS Warspite
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMS Ajax
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMCS Buctouche, Flower class corvette
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMS Exeter
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMS Hesperus, H class destroyer
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMS Lance, L class destroyer
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMS Middleton, Hunt class destroyer escort
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMS Onslow, O class destroyer
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMS Queen Elizabeth 1943
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMS Rodney/Nelson
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMCS Sackville, Flower class corvette
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMS Sheffield
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMS Sirius, Dido class light cruiser
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMS Warspite 1942
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMCS Whidbey, Flower class corvette
Iron Shipwrights 1/350 scale HMS Zulu, Tribal class destroyer
Mini Hobby Models 1/350 scale HMS King George V
Mini Hobby Models 1/350 scale HMS Prince of Wales
Mirage Hobby 1/350 scale HMS Anchusa
Mirage Hobby 1/350 scale HMS Pennywort
Mirage Hobby 1/350 scale HMS Spiraea 
Mirage Hobby 1/350 scale HMS Zinnia
Tamiya 1/350 scale HMS King George V 
Tamiya 1/350 scale HMS Prince of Wales 
Trumpeter 1/350 scale HMS Belfast 
Trumpeter 1/350 scale HMS Queen Elizabeth 1943
Trumpeter 1/350 scale HMS Warspite 1942
Trumpeter 1/350 scale HMS Rodney
White Ensign Models 1/350 scale HMS Barfluer, Battle class destroyer
White Ensign Models 1/350 scale HMS Havelock, H class destroyer
White Ensign Models 1/350 scale HMS Janus, J class destroyer
White Ensign Models 1/350 scale HMS Kittiwake, Kingfisher class coastal sloop
White Ensign Models 1/350 scale HMS Laforey, L class destroyer
White Ensign Models 1/350 scale HMS Musketeer, M class destroyer
White Ensign Models 1/350 scale HMS Portchester Castle, Castle class corvette
White Ensign Models 1/350 scale HMS Starling, Black Swan class sloop
and more!