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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => WW1 Aircraft Information/Questions => Topic started by: Allan31 on August 18, 2025, 12:24:16 AM
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I just found out Gannon had another company called "Silver Cloud". How did this enterprise fit in with the other companies?
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From what I remember, Silver Cloud was a series to include fairly obscure late WW2/ early jet age RAF/FAA aircraft that generally had, or would have had, a 'silver' finish in1/48.
I recall a Spiteful/Seafang and a Martin Baker MB5. There was an early jet, but it wasn't my taste so memory is cloudy.
They had the chunky buttery plastic of the BM kits and were a bit crude, but at the time there was nothing else on the subjects
S
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They were fairly savagely panned as innacurate. Didn't help that some of the audience wasn't accustomed to the short run nature that those of us who built the WW1 stuff were used to. I have the Seafang and Spiteful, and whereas IMO later Pegasus and Blue Max became qute refined, these two are a little on the crude side. I don't recall there being anything else in the series except the MB5. All three lines live on under the Freightdog label.
Paul.