Scale: 1/600
Set includes 4 directors.
Recommended for:
- Airfix 1/600 scale HMS King George V
- Frog 1/600 scale HMS Prince of Wales
- MPC 1/600 scale HMS King George V
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 Radars (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.
The following ships are reported to have been fitted with HACS Mk.IV fire control directors:
Battleships
King George V-class: HMS King George V, HMS Prince of Wales
Queen Elizabeth-class: HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Valiant, HMS Warspite (post-modernization)
Revenge-class / Royal Sovereign-class: select modernized ships
Battlecruisers
HMS Renown (post-modernization)
HMS Repulse (prior to loss)
Cruisers
Town-class: HMS Birmingham, HMS Sheffield, HMS Glasgow, HMS Newcastle, HMS Liverpool, HMS Manchester, HMS Gloucester, HMS Belfast
Fiji-class (Crown Colony): HMS Fiji, HMS Nigeria, HMS Newfoundland
Dido-class & Bellona-class: HMS Dido, HMS Bellona, etc. (these carried two directors)
Aurora-class: HMS Aurora (carried two directors)
Aircraft Carriers
llustrious-class
HMS Ark Royal
Depot Ships
HMS Forth, HMS Maidstone





