Airfix A08021 1/72 Vickers Wellington Mk.II AIRFIX

Vickers Wellington Mk.II

As Britain looked to strike back at the start of WWII, the Vickers Wellington was arguably their most important aircraft and they needed to ensure a constant supply of new machines. In an attempt to introduce some engine option flexibility and to provide the Wellington with greater power, around 400 Mk.II Wellington’s were modified to take Rolls Royce Merlin X engines, a development which gave this famous bomber a very different appearance.

The most distinctive feature of the Wellington’s manufacture was the use of hundreds of Duralumin W-beams to form an intricate metal lattice-work fuselage construction on to which wooden battens would be screwed, with doped fabric applied as the aircraft’s outer skin. This method of construction was developed by famous British engineer and inventor Barnes Wallis.

Our newly tooled Wellington kit is a stunningly faithful scale representation of one of the most important bombers of the Second World War.

With this latest kit we are introducing a new frame of parts, allowing an unusual version of the aircraft to be modelled.

Specifications

• Item Length – Without Packaging (cm): 27.3

• Item Height – Without Packaging (cm): 7.3

• Item Width – Without Packaging (cm): 36.4

• How many pieces will be found in the box opened by the customer? 133

• Item Scale: 1:72

• License line: BAE SYSTEMS is a registered trade mark of BAE Systems plc.

• Contents (what’s in the box) sets: Sprues & decals

• Finish: Plastic

• Number of Scheme options: 2

• Skill Level: 3

• Flying Hours: 3

• Wingspan (mm): 364

Schemes

• A – Vickers Wellington Mk.II Z8339/SM-N, RAF No.305 (Polish) Squadron, Lindholme, South Yorkshire, England, June 1942.

• B – Vickers Wellington Mk.II W5442/BU-V ‘SRI GUROH’, RAF No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron, Waltham, England, March 1942.