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Wimpy! A Slightly Smaller Build - Vickers Wellington Mk.1A: Part 2


toboldlygo

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Finally after a few weeks away from the Wimpy due to Loco commission work (& brief venture venture back to WW1 with the Eindecker) & number of exchanges between myself and Airfix (more on that later) - it's been full steam ahead on the with build...

 

Test fit of the bomb bay partitions.

 

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Making sure all the main assemblies fit together.

 

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And so the fun with Airfix Customer care began..

 

I noticed that a part was malformed (E2 main under carriage support strut), so I reported to Airfix and requested a replacement. It got very long winded, I had a very rude email from one of their customer care team and I ended up putting a formal complaint in, but in the end it got high enough up the food chain at Airfix for them to start investigating the tooling issue and Airfix supplied me with a replacement part (along with parts for the Shackleton that were missing)

 

The photo below shows the issue E1 & E2 should be identical - Airfix Supplied me with a spare E1 & E2

 

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Back on with the build..

 

..time for some black paint

 

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After masking up for the initial top coat of Dark Earth and airbrushing that on, I masked up for the camouflage scheme..

 

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Painting done and masking removed - some touch up painting was needed due to bleed-through, it was time to put those major assemblies together and add a few more parts..

 

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Bombs away (or not)

 

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Sat on her undercarriage (main wheels not painted) for the first time...

 

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Till next time

 

TBG

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  • RMweb Gold

I'm intrigued what the rude email contained, please tell.

 

I will pm you about it.

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Nice bit of modelling TBG, I always enjoyed making up these larger aircraft in my younger days.

 

As far as that e-mail is concerned maybe it should be loaded into the Bombay ! :))

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  • RMweb Gold

Nice bit of modelling TBG, I always enjoyed making up these larger aircraft in my younger days. As far as that e-mail is concerned maybe it should be loaded into the Bombay ! :))

 

A one point I wished I had a 4,000lb Cookie to drop on Hornby HQ - it might of shook some sense in to them more quickly ;)

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  • RMweb Premium

That bomb bay looks interesting. Leave the doors off and add two torpedoes and you have 38 squadron "torpington". These were used in the med. My old man was on their first torpedo based mission.He was a wireless op/air gunner.

 

Their claim to fame was dropping two torpedoes on Rommels' HQ when an engine went U/S.

 

Baz

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  • RMweb Gold

That bomb bay looks interesting. Leave the doors off and add two torpedoes and you have 38 squadron "torpington". These were used in the med. My old man was on their first torpedo based mission.He was a wireless op/air gunner. Their claim to fame was dropping two torpedoes on Rommels' HQ when an engine went U/S. Baz

 

With everything I've read about Wellington's the bomb bay was easily adaptable to what type of bomb load - even the prototype Upkeeps.

 

Apparently my Grandfather (he ended up as a Wing Commander) flew Wimpy's at some point during the war - though I've yet to confirm it.

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