Meng Whippet British WW1 Tank 1:35 – Dai W. build

Feature Article with Dai Williams

Before we get started, here’s a look at how it all turned out…

Both Meng and Takom produced excellent kits of the vehicle.

I think it’s fair to say that while both kits are easy to build and accurate, the Meng offering is perhaps the simpler of the two. The Takom kit provides some parts in etched brass. However, the mouldings on the Meng kit are very good and I don’t think that the kit suffers in any way for not supplying brass parts, for example, the hooks along the sides of the hull are provided as very fine three-dimensional injection moulded parts rather than the flat-section brass items in the Takom kit.

A feature common to both kits is that the fighting compartment is supplied as flat panels which need to be bent to shape. I didn’t find this particularly difficult provided constant reference was made to the roof section to ensure that the angles were correct.

Construction…