My kind of kit, Lenny! It makes me want to get out and finish a Frog Whitley thats about the same vintage.
Very cool!
[#ditto]
Very nice! [tup]
Actually, unlike the U.S. made Boeings, etc., most WWII RAF bombers were, since they had little or no armor, no auto-pilot to stabilize the plane during a crew bail-out as well as lacking built in fire extenguishing systems.
If you can get the old book “The 1000 Plane Raid” it has a lot of insight to these typical problems which led them to night bombing.
The typical routine for bailing out was for the pilot to go last, since he had to hold the controls in lieu of an auto pilot, wait for the other crew members and then try to rope the control stable so he could jump out without getting trapped himself. One of the few who “beat the system” simply dropped himslef into a Dutch Dike by releasing his harness while flying upside down.
Likewise, the special-purpose Mosquito daylight raids were typical “Charge of the Light Brigade” affairs, since plywood did not do well against ack-ack guns.
Tom [C):-)]
Just out of interest I’ve just gone onto ebay to see if they have got any Hampdens on for sale. Well at the moment don’t bother. The person who is selling them is taking the [censored] £25 a pop [tdn] when I got mine for a £5 and thats packing and a stamp.
I’l keeping looking if you want fellas.
Keep safe
Lenny[tup]
Hello again to you all,
This will be my last post for a couple of weeks so I just want to leave you on what I have done today. I’m happy with the cam to a certain point but may change it when I get back, all depends. There’s still lots to do i.e mount the vickers, touch up jobs and the engines, no less. I’m going to find where they sell Future polish. Used to have loads of the stuff when I was in the Army, brings your boots up like mirrors.
Anyway here’s a taster of the Hampden. Hope its to your taste.
Stay safe and stay lucky[:)]
Lenny[tup]
Nice job man ! [tup]
I neve saw a Hampdem model, good work on them.
Just one tip: I use Optical Fiber to make the internal wires on my models, they are in large colors variations and is so scale to 72 or 48 models… is cheap and easy to use, and give good results…
best regards,
Lucas
Great job on a gem of an old kit.
The main thing that made the Hampden a death trap was that the cockpit was isolated from the rest of the machine, there was no access to it from inside. If the pilot got killed, the other crew members couldn’t get to the cockpit to try to fly the thing and the dead pilot couldn’t keep it steady for the others to bail out.
Don’t waste time trying to get the Airfix Hampden kit on ebay.
Not that long ago the Czech company Bilek reissued a slog of old airfix kits and the Hampden was one of them.
Also, another Czech firm, Valom, has a completely new tooled Hampden in the works and its scheduled for the third quarter of this year.
Looking good Lenny, I love those old Airfix kits and the Hampden is a cool looking plane. Just gald I never had to fly in one. [;)]
Super-neat-O!
What an awesome build fella. Nice info on a wierdo of a plane. Hurry back. We need more pics.
…Guy
Hello to you all again!!! I’ve managed to finish off my Handley Page Hampden this afternoon and I feel very pleased with it. The only gripe I have with it, is because the kit was very old the decals on some of them had gone a bit yellow and after trying to get rid of silvering problem once and for all I was a bit gutted [censored]
Anyway as I’ve said before I had waited a long time to do this kit and I have many a night opened the box to take a look and plan ahead and now that time has come where I can look at the finished item with a bit of a smile.
I do hope you like them,. Please, comments, pointers anything will be very welcome[:)]
Stay safe everyone
Lenny[tup]
[tup][bow] Excellent. Hope you don’t mind me using this a ref for my future build. Really enjoyd following along. Lot of good quality work to learn from! Thanks
sfcmac
I’d consider it an honour!
Lenny[tup]
Excellent job Lenny. Looks absolutely Pucker my friend. If you had any problems or difficulties, it doesnt show.
…Guy
Thanks Guy
My heart was in my mouth when I was applying the decals because the last time I did it with decals of that age was on my Wellington III and they fell apart in thousends of bits!!
Lenny
Thanks for your comments and your interest fellas![:)]
I’l be back with my P-47’s soon
Lenny[tup]
Very nice work, Lenny. You did a great job on a kit I haven’t seen modeled too much. That interior detailing is especially nice.
Really well done. Now if only I could build as well!
Very, very good job on that.
What an interesting bomber! It’s skinny here and a bit skinny there… a little skinny everywhere!
I’ve never seen a model of that airplane, ever. Thanks for sharing all those photos and comments.
Nice work, Lenny.
Great work Lenny! I really like the way she looks!