1/72 Wellington MkIII - Wheels

[James Taylor]

Hi 

 

Is it my imagination or did I see somewhere on this marvelous site the suggestion that, for more scale accuracy, one could replace the skinny Trumpeter Wellington wheels with those from the Revell Halifax?

 

Many thanks

 

James

 

[Graham Boak]

I didn't realise they were that much undersize.  Is it not possibly to simply add some plasticard between the Trumpeter wheel halves, or do they come as single parts?

[dogsbody]

I know the Matchbox Welly wheels are too narrow for the undercarriage legs. When I built mine years ago ( unfinished ) I just glued some sheet plastic between the halves.

 

 

 

 

I have just looked at my Trumpeter kit and checked the wheels. They are not too narrow for the gear legs and are the same diameter as the Matchbox wheels. To check them against something more modern, I measured the diameter of the Airfix Wellington's wheels. Trumpeter's are a half millimeter smaller ( maybe less ) than the Airfix kit.

 

 

 

Chris

[Seahawk]

Have never heard any voices raised against the diameter of the Trumpeter wheels: it's all been about the fact they look as if they are intended for a racing bike rather than a heavy bomber.  Easy to correct that, but then you'll need to redo the main u/c legs to accommodate them, then you'll need to adjust the nacelle/wheel wells to take them ….  Then you decide it's all too much like hard work, put the bits back in the box and toss the kit onto the Too Difficult pile.

[Graham Boak]

It is the Halifax ones which have too small a diameter.  For a Halifax...

[Ratch]

On a similar vein, did all Wellingtons have retractable tail wheels?