MW Miniature Work

The First of April, 1918 A date on which many celebrate the birth of the Royal Air Force (while others mourn the brutal killing off of the Royal Naval Air Service ).  A date on which Major Percy “Pranger” Double-Barrel sauntered out to test Sopwith’s new wonder plane . He appears not to have been alarmed by the new kite’s unique ‘asymetric bicycle undercarriage’, but was halfway through a bottle of whiskey and may not have noticed. Fortunately for Percy, the aircraft merely described an agricultural circle in the grass and failed to get into the air. Even with two main wheels, it is doubtful that it could have flown, having been intended for ground attack and thus fitted with extensive armour plate and a bomb bay. At the subsequent Official Enquiry, a representative from the Sopwith's design office explained that the instruction to “repeat on the other side” had been accidentally cut off the plans sent to the workshop but it was “clear and obvious” and “only a blithering idio...