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Revell 1/72 Vickers Wellington Mk II
Topic Started: Nov 13 2014, 12:03 PM (1,936 Views)
Mark M
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Revell 172 Vickers Wellington Mk.II

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Popularly known by the nickname Wimpey , the Wellington was the most successful RAF twin-engine bomber of the Second World War. They bore the brunt of night missions, particularly during the initial phase of the war but due to increasing losses were replaced by the more powerful four-engined bombers from October 1943 onwards. More than 400 Wellington Mk.II bombers were fitted with the more powerful Merlin engine. A total of 21 Squadrons were equipped with the Wellington nearly 600 participated in the big raid on Cologne.



The Kit

This kit has been released and re-released several times over the years having been boxed by MPM, Italeri and Matchbox, however the tooling is of good quality and reflects the detailing of the Wellington:

- Structured surfaces
- Detailed cockpit
- Detailed undercarriage
- Undercarriage bays with many details
- Rotating propeller
- Rear MG turret with 4 MG's
- Twin nose turret for the Mk.II version
- Antennas


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The instructions....


These are the normal Revell booklet style with 11 pages covering the 43 steps of the build, The Paints are in Revell callouts only and some require mixing


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The decals


These are very clean and crisp and in perfect register with minimal excess on each decal
Markings are for


- Wellington Mk.II, No. 104 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Driffield, England, August 1941
- Wellington Mk.II, No. 405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, Pocklington, England, August 1941


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The Plastic...


The box contains several sprue's of light grey plastic this is of good quality but the mouldings are very soft in definition and detail, and really does show the kits age, however surprisingly these are free from flash. The kit also offers many unused parts such as propellers for other variants of the Wellington


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In Conclusion


This is a surprising re-release from Revell and would of benefited from a new tool, however this is still a good kit and ‘Looks like’ a wimpy. The kit is not up to the standard of recent releases but will build into a nice model. The kit is rated a 5 for a difficult build however i feel this is miss leading and should be a 3 or 4



Revell model kits are available from all good toy and model retailers. For details visit www.revell.de/en, @RevellGermany or facebook.com/Revell
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Im in no way shape or form an expert on wellingtons but those engines look odd to me, almost like a modern day turbo prop.
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LCDR Paul "Voodoo" Carter
Unusual to have A Merlin engine Wimpey, but nice. I also see the more normal radials in the sprues, to the option is there. Do you know who was the originator of this kit?
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i think it was matchbox, but possibly MPM
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No pilots, so I doubt it was Matchbox. I also remember the Matchbox version had the option of a chin mounted radar, which I can't see.

A bit of research tells me it's the MPM kit with all the optional sprues thrown in.
Edited by DevilFish, Nov 13 2014, 02:58 PM.
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See, Ive learnt something.

I never even knew they did a merlin engined wellington. But then again I didn't know they did a radial engined lanc until I bought the airfix kit. Whats even worse is that radial lancs were based at waterbeach even worse, 4 miles down the road from me at witchford and I stood looking at a radial they had dug out of the ground in there museum. It never twigged until I saw the kit :redface

Still looks like a turboprop though :laugh:
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shaunb
Nov 13 2014, 03:03 PM
See, Ive learnt something.

I never even knew they did a merlin engined wellington. But then again I didn't know they did a radial engined lanc until I bought the airfix kit. Whats even worse is that radial lancs were based at waterbeach even worse, 4 miles down the road from me at witchford and I stood looking at a radial they had dug out of the ground in there museum. It never twigged until I saw the kit :redface

Still looks like a turboprop though :laugh:
You learn something new every day with Professor Devilfish..... :whistle

I think the reason it looks like a turboprop is because it has to fair (fare?) in from the original fat, round radial mounts. That and the spinner is quite pointy....
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Definitely an MPM original and not released by Matchbox ever.
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Nov 13 2014, 04:02 PM
Definitely an MPM original and not released by Matchbox ever.
?? I take it you mean these mouldings? Not the Wellington in general....
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Thank god, I thought it was just me that was thinking 'im sure I built a matchbox welly as a child'
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Something is tickling the back of my mind about a couple of kits that crept out and not overly publicised but can find nothing in all my sources but have a feeling that it was WW-2 orientated. Check the sprue and if it's squarish it's Matchbox but if round it's MPM.
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Matchbox did a Wellington, this isn't it.

Si.
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
Thanks Simon for confirming this for us, I just had that feeling about Matchbox.
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Mark M
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this seems to think its a 2002 mpm tooling

http://www.scalemates.com/products/product.php?id=629429
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LCDR Paul "Voodoo" Carter
It is. I did some research. Normally comes with either Merlins or radials. This has both.

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