PWS-10 1:48 Full Printed kit - Spanish Service
Description
The set includes:
- Model printed entirely in 3D technology, high quality, non-raster (may require slight smoothing).
- Upper wing - 3D printing - wings with a hole (double) (reinforcement with rod: 2 mm for 1:32 scale, 1.2 mm for 1:48 scale, 0.8 mm for 1:72 scale)
- Main struts and landing gear with a hole for wires: (0.8 mm for 32 scale, 0.5 mm for 1:48 scale, 0.3 for 1:72 scale)
- 3 paint schemes for the Polish version of PWS-10 and 2 paint schemes for the Spanish version.
- Rods added to the set only for the 1:32 scale.
- Photoetched sheets
- Decal (digital printing, application on water - testing recommended)
- Auxiliary elements (wires, fairing template)
- Color instructions
A bit of history:
The PWS-10 was a Polish fighter aircraft, designed at the Podlasie Aircraft Factory. It was the first Polish fighter to enter serial production. The series was built from 1931 to 1932, numbered from 5-1 to 5-80. High-wing parasol type of mixed construction, covered with fabric and plywood. Fuselage with a metal frame, covered with duralumin in the front part and fabric in the rear part. Two-spar elliptical wings, of wooden construction, covered with fabric and plywood. Stabilizers, rudder and elevator of metal construction, covered with fabric. Open cockpit with windshield. Fixed conventional landing gear, with rear skid. Engine: 12-cylinder inline liquid-cooled Lorraine-Dietrich LD-12Eb engine, built under license at Polish Skoda plants. Water cooler under the front of the fuselage. Two-blade wooden fixed-pitch propeller. 280 l fuel tank in the fuselage. Armament: two fixed 7.7 mm Vickers machine guns with interrupter, in the fuselage sides.