(no not rubber boots )

I am supposed to be making a RAF Wellington for my grandfather as a birthday present. He flew in one when he was training for nightfighting use of radar.

First: What Mk would it have been. My research so far shows it is probably a IX or X.

Second: What model/s are available in 1/72?

Third: What upgrades resin, PE or otherwise are avilable?

A lot of questions I hope not impossible to answer

With much thanks

h7

Only one mark X, that I see, sorry http://www.squadron.com/SearchResults.asp?ScaleList=72&TypeList=1&ManuList=everything&Key=wellington&Submit=Go
Best of Luck

Heres a couple of kits, don't know about the quality because I'm not an aircraft modeller.

http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/619_1_23396.html

http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/901_1_12431.html

The second one is sold out on this website, but now you know whats out there. Can't find any resin/PE upgrades, but maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

The only Wellington I've seen in 1/72 is the ancient Airfix which was one of my first 1/72 aircraft over 40 years ago. Its flaps, rudder and airlerons were all movable.

I remember that well. I built it with my dad and then a couple of years later i flew it out the window :-)

Hi, as far as I know, Revell, MPM, Matchhbox and modelcraft all do a Wellington. But what they are like I don't know. Not really helpful am I.

The Revell kit is a re-boxed Matchbox kit. External detail is not to bad, fairly restrained geodetic effect on the flying surfaces but missing from the fin. Sparce cockpit detail, though now much will be visable through the glasing remains to be seen (I've not built my example yet) and no wheel well detail. Their "trade mark" panel lines on the engine cowls and fin. One of the MPM kits is reviewed on Hyper-scale , there may be other marks in the pipline. The Aifix kit has been around since the 60's, I belive it was their first large model, with all that implies reguarding detail.