Pre-war British aircraft

Anyone know of a 1/72 or 1/48 scale kit of the Hawker Fury or Hawker Hart? I’ve always thought they were really beautiful aircraft. Both were produced in the 30’s- sleek, polished aluminum biplanes.

There have been a few kits of the Fury, but I don’t recall any for the Hart. They are all pretty old kits & may be hard to find. There may be a Hart kit somewhere, but I can’t think of one off-hand. The Fury is one of my favorite pre-war aircraft. I keep hoping a modern tooled one will be released, but it’s not a popular era with kit manufacturers.

Regards, Rick

this is no help really but if your really into pre-war

squadron has a nice hawker nimrod

smooth looking aircraft

And this is no help at all, but I wondered which war you were asking about! [:)]

There are a fair number of us who build WW I models, so before the war is before 1914. The stuff you’re looking for we refer to as “golden age” aircraft, or “between-the-wars.” [:D]

In my opinion, this era needs more kits.

Regards,

For 1/72 scale:

http://www.72scale.com/aircraft/Hawker/Fury.htm

and

http://www.72scale.com/aircraft/Hawker.htm

Don’t know about 1/48.

Yes! Thank you!

LOL- good point!

Those were some great looking aircraft during that period. I especially like the American and British aircraft. They were always so colorful.

You might try Aero Club at http://www.aeroclub-models.com/

I know they did a lot of the 'tween wars British stuff, in 1/72 I believe …

John

Czechmaster have a lot of pre-war British stuff in 1/72 scale. A quick trawl through Hannants website brought up some interesting bits such as the Gamecock and Waipiti. Another manufacturer is Dujin, again, a trawl through Hannants brought up more interwar stuff, like a Fox. I’m sure others also do stuff, but those two reguarly appear in the modelling press.

How about an Avro Anson 1 . I did not even know such a plane existed until I got an old airfix 1/72 model of one in a lot of models that I bought. I open up the box and fot its age it looks quite buildable. I have about twenty old airfix kits . Some of them are pretty awful and some are not to bas fot fourty year old kits.

Soulcrusher

Airfix produced an excellent 1/48 Fury I have built a few in my time, OOP now but can still be found on e-bay

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal1/101-200/gal153_Fury_Eglen/gal153.htm

http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/preww2/cleavernimrod.htm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-48-scale-HAWKER-FURY-BIPLANE-AIRFIX-4103_W0QQitemZ6041098996QQcategoryZ63660QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem