Barrel of laughs

Imagine this: you get excited seeing this box of a kit you want to build; you pay up at the counter and take the trip home all excited to get started on the plane. You get home, open up the box and there it is. A puny, tiny little airplane. But wait, this can't be. It looks too funny to be a real plane. Its like a barrel with wings. Oddly enough, that's what the Yanks called this thing: a barrel. Oh well, let's see. What can we do with it. Then you read about it. You read about how it held the line in the dark days of the Pacific war. You read about how it fought Zeros. You read about how it helped win Midway. Wow. So there we go. An Academy 1/72 F4F-1 Wildcat. It may look funny, but it did its part.