The answer would be one of the LAMEST puns in a personal history of very lame puns. Curse your mouse and cursor for even clicking on it! [} Yeah, forget about that…
Anyway, back on subject…
People (around here, anyway) are familier with the unique geodesic construction employed by the Vickers Wellington. What people DON’T know is that it wasn’t the first to use this construction method. That distiction would go to the very oddly-shaped Vickers Wellesley (and hence, the pun. Get it? You do? I’m sorry). Pun? What pun? I see no pun here…
While the Wellington looked like a normal bomber, the Wellesley defintely didn’t. The fuselage looked like a small zeppelin with wings, a tail, and two canopies grafted on to it. The wings were also exeptionally large, and employed the crisscross pattern used in the later Wellington.
And I was able to get the old Matchbox 1/72 kit of it. [:D]
The kit is of so-so quality. Fit is decent, but not great. There was nothing in the cockpit, so I added some random stuff to to make it look sufficently “busy”. On the plus side, the fabric effect on the wings is rather delicate and well molded.
Also note the different colored plastic, so I don’t have to paint it if I don’t want to!
I’m almost ready to begin painting, so stay tuned for more updates.
