Special Hobby Westland Whirlwind Mk 1

[Jan_G]

Boxart

 

[thierry laurent]

A true hot rod!

 

Is it only me but, from that angle, without spinners and with swastikas, she would look like a Me262 relative...?

[Kagemusha]

Great box art. 

[CharmyDown]

8 hours ago, Jan_G said:

Boxart

 

Drool!

Love it. 

[Rick Griewski]

Yippie!  Great box art indeed!

[scimitarf1]

The Whirlwind just missed the Battle of Britain - I always wonder how they would have done. The concentration  of fire would have been awesome. It would also have been faster than any other fighter 

[Alburymodeler]

Looks like we might get a few boxings, the clean "Cannon Fighter" and then a bomber version. All is good.

 

[scvrobeson]

Going off of their 1/72 kit, there'll be a few boxings of this.  Especially since the box-art for this one is exactly the same as the 1/72 kit.

 

 

 

Matt 

[brewerjerry]

6 hours ago, scimitarf1 said:

The Whirlwind just missed the Battle of Britain - I always wonder how they would have done. The concentration  of fire would have been awesome. It would also have been faster than any other fighter 

 

Hi

   I read many years ago at the pro/na 

that dowding ? or fighter cmd ?  would not let them fly in the BoB, but they were all to be held in reserve in scotland as they were the only a/c capable of attacking army targets with the 20mm cannon in the event of invasion

 

so most likely no matter how many were available they still wouldn't have flown in the BoB fights 

  cheers

    jerry

[fastterry]

Also like the Typhoon & Tempest they were best at low level and were probably unable to fight effectively at 25-30,000ft like the Hurricane & Spitfire.

TRF

[MikeC]

12 hours ago, scimitarf1 said:

The Whirlwind just missed the Battle of Britain - I always wonder how they would have done. The concentration  of fire would have been awesome. It would also have been faster than any other fighter 

 

There was an article on that very subject in the September 2020 issue of Aeroplane.  Dowding deliberately chose not to use the Whirlwinds as it was too risky, not least because of the type's engine problems.

[scimitarf1]

Thank you for that - it makes sense given that the Spits and Hurris were doing very nicely.

 

Worth pointing out that the bombers came over in the BoB in the low teens altitude wise so this would not have been an issue.

 

 

[Jan_G]

another sprue test shot  posted on SH page

 

 

 

 

[Out2gtcha]

Thanks Jan, those dont look bad at all to my eye.....

[adameliclem]

Well, that's a fine-looking test shot, isn't it? Surface details look really subtle and fine, the sprue gates impressively small and I have an impression that the trailing edges are quite sharp. Thanks, Jan. 

 

Adam