My Forgotten Hobby is fast becoming a sitcom…with my Spitfire Mk Vb still on hold with “unhinged” canopies.
Last week I was contacted by someone who wanted me to build two Airfix Vickers Wellington Mk IIIs he had bought a few years back. One would be for him and one for me.
Nice box art!
I told him I did not not see any problem except that these two model kits were vintage kits and although they could be quickly built they were lacking details.
So I went shopping around on Amazon.ca…
There was only one Trumpeter Wellington Mk. III left on Amazon.ca.
And only one Mk. X on Amazon.com.
Looking for information about them, I found both model kits are almost the same except for a few extra parts to build the other one.
I had always wanted to buy Trumpeter 1/48 scale version of the Wellington B III. The Wellington B III was flown by RCAF 425 Squadron at Dishforth in 1942 and the squadron flew the Wellington Mk X at Kairouan in Tunisia.
There was one Trumpeter 1/48 scale Wellington Mk III available on Amazon.com but it was too costly being almost four times the asking price for the Trumpeter 1/72 version of the Mk. III. So with the fear of passing up a great deal, I had decided to follow Jeff’s advice and buy the 1/72 scale version although that scale is not my favorite scale.
This model kit will be built instead and the two vintage kits later…
One will be build as RCAF 425 Alouette squadron Wellington Mk III call sign KW-E and the other as a Mk X serial number HE268, call sign KW-K.
There is so much history behind RCAF 425 Alouette squadron. You just have to Google 425 Alouette squadron on the Internet, and you will probably stumbled on what I have been writing on that squadron since 2010.
Writing about unsung heroes is what I like to do best even more than building model airplanes. Unsung heroes like Jacques Morin who had never talked to strangers before about his service in WW II before I met him in 2011.
My Forgotten Hobby III 