Silver Wings unleash the Demon...

Silver Wings’  new all resin kit in 1/32^nd scale has just today hit the market – in our preview we have some shots and info about what you might be getting in the package if you order one…

Just Released from Silver Wings…

Hawker Demon

Cat. No.: 31-014

Material: resin

Scale: 1:32

Period: 1930 - 1938

Marking options: 2 (RAF)

Number of parts: 130 x resin, 92 x pe, film

Length & wingspan: 281 x 354 (mm)

Additional features: main elements iron reinforced

 

On entering service in 1930, Sydney Camm’s Hawker Hart bomber proved so much quicker than the RAF’s existing fighters that the potential for a fighter version of the newcomer was self-evident and developed without delay. Following initial evaluation of two prototypes at RAF Martlesham Heath, a batch of six Hart Fighters was duly completed in 1931 and placed for development with No.23 Squadron at RAF Kenley.

The adaptation was considered successful and in 1932 a contract was raised for the manufacture of an initial run of 17 such aircraft. At first the new aircraft was known as the Hart Fighter, being renamed the Demon in July 1932. The aircraft was ordered into full production, entering full service in 1933. In all 305 Demons were produced, 232 of them for the RAF.

Due to pressure of work at the H G Hawker Engineering Company, production of the last 59 Demons was subcontracted to Boulton-Paul Aircraft. In their time, Demons equipped six regular RAF and five Royal Auxiliary Air Force squadrons and saw service in the Abyssinia crisis of 1935.

As a fighter with the RAF the Demon was finally superseded from late 1938 by the Blenheim IF, but a few were used as target tugs until replaced by the Hawker Henley.

Hawker Demon technical data

Engine:

- Rolls-Royce Kestrel IIS (485 HP)

- later Kestrel VDR (585 HP)

- Kestrel VDR in Australian Demons (600 HP)

Max speed: 291 km/h at ceiling 3962 m

Weight (empty): 1513 kg

Range: 750 km

Wingspan: 11,35 m

Length: 9,02 m

Height: 3,35 m

Armament: twin forward firing 7.7 mm Vickers machine guns + one dorsal ring-mounted Lewis Mk.III gun + eight 20 lb bombs

Crew: two – pilot plus observer/gunner

Operators: United Kingdom (RAF), Australia (RAAF)

The supplied decal sheet:

Available marking options:

-Hawker Demon, K4520, 64 Squadron, Martlesham Heath, June 1937

-Hawker Demon, K4500, 604 Squadron, Auxiliary Air Force, Hendon, 1936

 Pictures of the resin sent to us from Silverwings up close is always welcome..

92 parts of photo etch make up the finer details on the Demon

 You an order this kit – or any other in their golden years of aviation range  directly from the  Silver Wings Webstore