Airfix Handley Page Hampden - Part II

Guess it had to happen sooner or later, but it's still annoying. I committed an irrecoverable mistake which landed my Handley build in the bin couple of minutes ago. The fatal mistake took place during construction of tail section - I put it together "wrong side up" and since I used super-glue to plug the gaps, a dis-assembly was pretty much impossible.

I have to be honest though and admit that I am not mourning over this "disaster", because as it turns out, the Handley project was not very enjoyable (which probably explains my slow progress). It definitely shows its age - the fit between the fuselage halves is very bad, the fit between the fuselage assembly and closed bomb bays is even worse. The crew figures are on the way of cockpit and the rare gunner makes it impossible to fit in the dual Lewis guns he's supposed to operate. And then we have the rivets sticking out all over the place, just begging to be filed down by accident - a wish which is impossible not to comply with, due to bad fit of different parts of the model.

The airplane type in itself is still very fascinating subject for me, but I doubt that I will pick this particular model yet again.

This is as far as I came before discovering the fatal mistake. 

Unseemly cover-up of badly aligned fuselage halves is clearly visible here.

The fatal mistake - what is up should be down and viceversa.

The result... the tail section just didn't fit with the rest of the fuselage.