thierry laurent Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Hi folks, Frankly this is puzzling me as between the Hart and the Hunter this is the only 1/32 major missing link in the Hawker lineage. We do not even have a vacuform! This is really weird for different reasons: -small plane -simple airframe -graceful lines -nice decos -role in the Suez campaign We got many kits of planes that do not comply with half of that list! It seems to me there were rumors of a Vac years ago but I cannot remember from whom...Possibly Iain, Tim or another of our Brit Friends knows more...? What do I miss...? Thierry mozart, scvrobeson, KiwiZac and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 It’s a very good question Thierry for which I don’t have a ready answer, I need one for my “Hawker lineage” kits! Perhaps Graham at Iconicair might be able to fill the gap since he did the Attacker? NigTT and Mr.T 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted April 9, 2022 Author Share Posted April 9, 2022 Thanks Max. As this looks to be a so obvious 'no-brainer' project, I'm fully puzzled by such a gap. By the way the Attacker is important in the Supermarine lineage but her history is lacking luster in comparison with the Seahawk one for which I forgot another noticeable factor: foreign operators! mozart, scvrobeson, Royboy and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 I've wondered this too. It's a pretty little jet, and, as has been said historically significant, not least as the first fighter selected for the post-war German naval air arm. Royboy, mozart, scvrobeson and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mydesign Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 (edited) I remember many years ago , I think in 2005, being at a press conference at Revell Germany in Bunde and talking to the head of product development. I suggested that a 1/32 Sea Hawk would be a nice kit to be developed by Revell. The model would not be too large for 1/32 modellers. And it would surely be popular with the large Revell modellers base at the U.K, West Germany and Netherlands. It is was in museums ready to measured up and not that expensive to make the moulds. .... yep..... I also (with same arguments a few years later around 2010) suggested top Revell a 1/32 Vampire. Yes, it was not used in West Germany but in dozens of other countries..... yep... Well, this last kit finally will come from Infinity this year Meindert Edited April 9, 2022 by mydesign typo thierry laurent, Kagemusha, Paul in Napier and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank83 Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Agree with all above. 1/32 Skyhawk would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotsman Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 EDSG/Sky I'm in and wouldn't a Seahawk look good placed next to it's bigger brother the Hunter - speaking of - Can Revell PLEASE release a T7/8 Hunter Pretty Please with Sprinkles and cherries on top Tony T, Royboy and mozart 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quang Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 22 minutes ago, frank83 said: Agree with all above. 1/32 Skyhawk would be great. We’re talking here about the Hawker Sea Hawk Paul in Napier, mozart and MikeC 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npb748r Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 it is a surprising gap and one of the best looking aircraft ever made in my view. mozart, Oldbaldguy and Scotsman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royboy Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Non U.S Navy aircraft of any description are the poor relations in our scale and it is indeed a mystery why they don't do them? I think a 1/32 scale Hawker Seahawk would sell well....... but then, what do I know? MikeC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank83 Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 8 hours ago, quang said: We’re talking here about the Hawker Sea Hawk Yeah, I know, just mistyped. Too many hawks after all Paul in Napier 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldbaldguy Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 I remember nearly a lifetime ago seeing a photo of a German Seahawk in a purloined copy of Naval Aviation News (my dad absolutely knew how to spoil me as a child) and it was love at first sight. Still love it! And it even has a hook! thierry laurent and Royboy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom2 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Good question, Thierry! I have wanted a Sea Hawk in 1/32 for years, I just love that little aeroplane! It´s a big gap in the Hawker lineage and in our scale! Stefan Royboy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.T Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Yes, the Dutch Navy flew them for a while as well from its one and only aircraft carrier back in the day: http://www.vlaggeschipsmaldeel5.nl/html/katapultstart_sea_hawk.html thierry laurent and MikeC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 I suspect it's one of those subjects that's fallen down the cracks between vac/resin and injection moulded over the years... Mainstream manufacturers shy because of unknown sales. Smaller manufacturers worried that if they take the time, effort and money to tool a kit, that an injected kit manufacturer will promptly announce a new kit and make it a wasted exercise? Give it time and I'm sure one will appear - there's more than enough to keep us busy for now, isn't there? Iain Jack, scvrobeson, Royboy and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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