1:72 Vickers Wellesley

kevincallahan · April 25, 2012, 06:51:51 PM

This is a RW subject, but owes a debt to one of WIM's own, Kit Spackman. The Wellesley kit I had did not have a rear canopy (or instructions or decals for that matter). But I noted when Kit posted his own modified Wellesley that it had only one cockpit. I sent him a PM asking if he still had the surplus canopy, and he was shortly sending it across the ocean. So cheers Kit!

I have ordered decals for the grey fuselage codes and white underwing serials, so technically it won't be finished til then. But don't tell anyone. More details on the 72 Land blog referenced below.

PR19_Kit · April 26, 2012, 01:35:57 AM

YESSsssssssssssss!

I LOVE it when a plan comes together!

PR19_Kit · April 26, 2012, 01:39:56 AM

I just read your blog page Kevin (GREAT work there BTW) and was shocked to see your Wellesley suffered a landing gear failure due too high a landing speed.

So did mine!

Either that's a co-incidence or that guy Barnes Wallis needed to re-calculate his landinge gear stress figures.......

NARSES2 · April 26, 2012, 03:27:18 AM

Always liked the Wellesley and thats a nice one

Old Wombat · April 26, 2012, 09:53:11 PM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 26, 2012, 01:39:56 AM
I just read your blog page Kevin (GREAT work there BTW) and was shocked to see your Wellesley suffered a landing gear failure due too high a landing speed.

So did mine!

Either that's a co-incidence or that guy Barnes Wallis needed to re-calculate his landing gear stress figures.......

Of course, it may be as simple as he expected his planes to be flown by careful pilots, not whizzed around by ham-fisted giants!

PR19_Kit · April 26, 2012, 11:34:18 PM

Quote from: Old Wombat on April 26, 2012, 09:53:11 PM
Of course, it may be as simple as he expected his planes to be flown by careful pilots, not whizzed around by ham-fisted giants!

And Clear Air Turbulance hadn't been invented in Barnes' time either...........

Old Wombat · April 26, 2012, 11:51:46 PM

Of course not!

Clear Air Turbulence is a fabrication of the 70's (?) to explain-away a series of otherwise unexplained aerial incidents & accidents which occurred because no-one was willing to admit the truth...

... that they were, if fact, caused by ham-fisted giants whizzing the aircraft around!

kitbasher · April 28, 2012, 10:03:37 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on April 26, 2012, 03:27:18 AM
Always liked the Wellesley and thats a nice one

Ditto. Can't have too many of them - I do wish Revell would re-release the old Matchbox one. Maybe Airfix could be persuaded to do a new 1/72 tool - it'd go nicely with 2013's Seafire FR.47 in the same scale.