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VERY HIGH QUALITY RESIN KIT

Subject: GLOSTER GAMECOCK (UK)

Manufacturer: MONTEX PLASTIC MODEL CLUB (Poland)

MONTEX Stock # RMA3202

Set: Resin Scale Model Kit (Limited Run)

Material components: Resin & Clear resin

Scale: 1/32

Set includes:

• 148 Resin parts
• 6 clear resin parts
• 4 Masks sheets for painting the National Insignia & Tactical Marking for 2 aircraft
• Manual of instruction 6 pages

The kit features a very highly detailed cockpit interior & Bristol Jupiter 9 cylinders engine.

Kit Markings: For 2 aircraft

• Gloster Gamecock Mk I of 32nd Squadron, No 8081 (RAF)
• Gloster Gamecock Mk I of 23rd Squadron, No 8409 (RAF)

Manual of instruction:

(PDF Document) About the Gloster Gamecock
(PDF Document) Page 1
(PDF Document) Page 2
(PDF Document) Page 3
(PDF Document) Page 4
(PDF Document) Page 5
(PDF Document) Page 6

Packaging: Color box
Dimensions: 298 mm x 147 mm x 98 mm/11.73” x 5.79” x 3.86”
Weight: 0.50 Kg/1 Lb & 12 oz

REVIEW on this item
LSP 06/20/07
LSP 09/16/07

ABOUT THE GLOSTER GAMECOCK:
In July 1924, Gloucestershire Aircraft began work on an improved Grebe single-seat fighter to Specification 37/23 and intended to be powered by the 398hp Bristol Jupiter IV nine-cylinder radial engine. Of wooden construction with fabric skinning and retaining the then-standard armament of two synchronised 7.7mm Vickers guns, and to receive the appellation of Gamecock, the prototype was delivered to Martlesham Heath on 20 February 1925. In the following September, an initial order was placed on behalf of the RAF for 30 Gamecock Is powered by the 425hp Jupiter VI. In the event, a further 60 Gamecock Is were built for the RAF (1925-27), one of these (unofficially known as the Gamecock III) at one time flying with a lengthened fuselage, new and enlarged fm-and-rudder assembly and narrow-chord ailerons. A developed version, the Gamecock II, with a steel-tube upper wing centre section, narrow-chord ailerons and a larger rudder, appeared in 1928. This was adopted by Finland, two pattern aircraft and a manufacturing licence being acquired. Fifteen Gamecock IIs were built for the Finnish air arm 1929-30 by the State Aircraft Factory (Valtion Lentokonenetehdas), these having the lengthened fuselage tested earlier in the UK by the so-called Gamecock III and being powered initially by the 420hp Gnome-Rhone Jupiter (IV) 9Ab or 9Ak and later by the 480hp Jupiter (IV) 9Ag. The last Gamecock Is were finally withdrawn from first-line RAF service mid-1931, Gamecock IIs remaining first-line Finnish equipment until 1935.