Wings of The Great War WW19901
Zeppelin P-class Airship Display Model
Kaiserlich Marine, Germany, 1915 | |
| 1:700 Scale | | Length | | Width |
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| Zeppelin P-class Airship | | 9.25" | | 1" |
Made of quality resin with cast metal gondolas, this 1:700 scale model replicates LZ 41 (#L 11), a P-Class zeppelin flown by the Imperial German Navy in World War I. Draped in a "multi-colored cow" paint scheme, the aircraft took its initial flight on June 7, 1915, and was written off less than two years later, in April of 1917. During its short lifetime it completed 31 recon missions and 12 raids over England, dropping 15,543 kg worth of bombs.
The Zeppelin P Class was the first Zeppelin airship type to be produced in quantity after the outbreak of the First World War. 22 of the type were built. They were used for many of the airship bombing raids on the United Kingdom in 1915-16, for naval patrol work over the North Sea and Baltic and were also deployed on the eastern and south-eastern fronts. © Copyright 2003-2024 The Flying Mule, Inc.
The Wings of The Great War range presents affordable, ready-made resin models of WWI aircraft. Each model is crafted and painted by hand and features a unique pivoting stand that allows the model to be displayed at a variety of different attitudes.
Wings of The Great War display airplanes feature:
- Molded resin construction with no assembly required.
- Fixed, non-rotating propellers and wheels.
- Poseable presention stand to display the aircraft "in flight".
Why Resin?
It's very expensive to produce die-casting molds, and manufacturers must sell a large number of models from each mold in order to recoup development costs. Some subjects are so obscure that it's difficult to sell large quantities of them. Resin-casting is a much simpler and less expensive process, and manufacturers can use it to make limited runs of models that can't be cost effectively manufactured in diecast metal. With resin-cast models, collectors can add fascinating and unusual subjects to their collections without the time and difficulty of assembling and painting a model kit.
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