Product Description

--Silver Wings is a Polish manufacturer that has released many high quality resin kits.
――It's not cheap, but it's an aircraft modeler's coveted kit with great details and parts accuracy to match.
――The kit comes with 101 resin parts, etching with 23 parts, and 2 transparent films.
--The strength is increased by inserting metal wires into the wings and main landing gear.
--Three types of markings (2 types of RAF and 1 type of Finnish Air Force) are included.
――It's a super kit with lots of contents.

--The Gloucester Gauntlet is a single-seat biplane fighter developed by Gloster Aircraft in the United Kingdom in the 1930s.
――After the prototype SS18 first flew in 1929, the improved SS19, such as replacing the engine, was officially adopted by the Air Force as Gauntlet Mk.I in 1934.
--Gauntlet Mk.II is the main production type, and 204 machines have been manufactured.
--The Gauntlet was the fastest fighter of the Royal Air Force in the mid-1930s, and was an extremely excellent interceptor fighter due to its high rate of climb.
――In 1937, 14 squadrons of the British mainland were equipped with gauntlets, and at one point they were the main fighters of the Royal Air Force.
--By 1939, mainland British squadrons were equipped with hurricanes in place of gauntlets, but in Africa and elsewhere they were deployed to ground attack units until 1942.
――The aircraft exported to Finland was operated as a higher training aircraft during the Winter War and trained many Finnish Air Force ace.

Product Specifications

Country

UK , Finland

Item code

SVW32023

JAN code

4589913369245

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