I built the original kit when it came out years ago and wanted a replacement but as AIrfix haven't retooled this yet I bought the Kovozavody Prostejov (K.P. Kev, lol) kit upon it's release. The model comes on two grey sprues plus a clear one, a five page instruction booklet and markings for three aircraft, one of which is P-EA featuring Popeye on the side which was also the markings for the original Airfix kit. I however am not building as that aircraft. Flash is minimal but as with KP kits there are no locating pins and holes for the fuselage and wings. There are however a few 'knock out' points in visible places which will need to be removed.

It certainly looks clean. It shouldn't cause you much trouble Chris.

I hope not, I'm running out of Valium.

Quote from: cph64 on May 31, 2026, 05:45:02 AMI hope not, I'm running out of Valium.

What about pinching some of Tracy's? If you need it.

At the recent PlayDay I started scribing the bomb bay doors as I plan to have them open and fit bombs and cradles inside. Online research showed that the doors were in two parts and having only scribed the lower I subsequently opened the thinner upper ones. The bomb bay roof has been attached to one side but I will repaint this Black along with the door interiors. A start has been made on the cockpit floor and a major item has come to my notice, there are no internal bulkheads or a floor for the rear gunner. As the kit glazing is relatively thick I'll check to see what I can get away with.

I don't think there was an internal bulkhead behind the pilots seat Chris, though I may be wrong.

I have a Cutaway book of Bombers of WWII, and it includes the Hampden. I'll bring it on Sunday if your going to the Northern Model Show, otherwise I'll bring it to the next meeting.

Hi Kev, thanks. I'm not going to the Northern it's our village Open Gardens that day and ours is one of them. Tracy is running the tombola in the Village Hall so can't cover.
Anyway, I've seen a cutaway that, as you say, has no bulkhead behind the pilot but there is one aft of the wing spar into the rear compartment. On second thoughts I'm going to try and make this and a representation of the cover over the spar. Another case of IKIT!!

Bulkhead made and fitted, I even marked out the door! A piece of 10 thou was added to the back of the cockpit floor to represent the wing spar also. To fit the rear gunners seat I used some Evergreen strip to represent a fuselage spar, mirroring this on the opposite fuselage half. Digging through the spares box I found some bombs, first built around 60yrs ago, attached to the correct cradle so these and two others were quickly cleaned up and repainted before fitting. I didn't spend too much time on these as they will be mostly hidden once the fuselage is joined up.

Great to see you adding that extra detail.

Nice detail Chris.

Great