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FULL-BUILD: WORLD WAR TWO ALLIED AVIATION
EDUARD 1:48 HAWKER TEMPEST MK.V SERIES II ● KIT NO.82122

Oliver Peissl joins TMMI
with his superb build of Eduard's
1:48 Tempest Mk.V Series II, fitting
Eduard's Brassin cockpit, landing
gear, exhaust pipes and 'Löök'
instrument panel for good measure!

HAWKER'S

HUNTER

riginally intended 1941. Originally, it was Due to manufacturing Used as a fighter and
to serve as an called Typhoon Mk. II, but it problems, the first engines fighter-bomber, the Tempest
interceptor, the was soon renamed because were not delivered until Mk.V proved to be one of
OHawker Typhoon subsequent developments February 1943 and mass the fastest propeller combat
was not really up to this resulted in a heavily production was not expected aircraft of WW2 at low and
mission and was therefore modified aircraft, the most until around the middle of medium altitudes. This is
quickly re-assigned as a important innovation being the following year. Camm why it was mainly used
fighter-bomber, this time its thin, elliptical wings. then decided to produce the against the Me262 and the
with much more success. The first flight of the aircraft with a Sabre IIb V1 'vengeance' weapon. In
Sir Sidney Camm, chief Tempest prototype was replacement engine. For addition to seven hundred
designer of Hawker Aircraft, carried out by PG Lucas this reason, the aircraft was flying bombs, RAF units
soon abandoned efforts to on September 2nd, 1942. renamed 'Tempest Mk.V' equipped with this type were
improve the Typhoon and Originally, the RAF ordered and began to roll off the able to shoot down at least
opted for a completely new 400 Tempest Mk.I equipped assembly lines from June twenty Me262s as well as
design, completed in October with the Sabre IV engine. 1943. one He162.

The resin parts of the cockpit and the internal parts of the fuselage were painted in Grey-Green Mr. colour 364 and in dark grey, here the RLM 66 Gunze H416
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