1/72 Zvezda Hind FINISHED

Hi,

I can't wait to see your build.  Russian/Soviet helicopters have such a fascinating look to them.

Pat

Hello!

The Mi-24 is distinctively "crooked" - you see that very well looking at if from the front and I heard the Zvezda kit is the only one showing that. They have designed it that way to lower the amount of power needed for the tail rotor for to keep it straight, leaving more power for speed!

Good luck with your build (or will there be two of them?) and have a nice day

Paweł

What's that blue thing in the little package up front?  

I knew you were bluffing.

Revenant

What's that blue thing in the little package up front?  

 

Foam padding

Replacement chin gun and pitot tube...detail shots later.

Clearing the bench right now to do some work on these monsters!

Been a long time, but I finally got somewhere with these...

Pretty much nothing but the area where the rotor mounts will be visible. There's a good amount of detail, that could easily be enhanced, if one was so inclined to open up some panels...I am not!

Hello!

The "guts" look really good! Nice instrument panels, too, the russian blue is a very good match, too! Thanks for sharing and good luck with your build, have a nice day

Paweł

Can't believe it's been almost 5 months....  

Work seriously got in the way this summer! I did get little bits of time here and there. For the last couple days, I've been hammering away on the finish. Ready for a flat coat and their final parts...

Those are such cool looking machines.

They're looking good.  By good, I mean appropriately mean.  

Thanks dudes!

Got these suckers finished up!!!

Hi,

Thise look really nice.  The Hinds are both a bit goofy looking while also being very intimidating looking too 

Awesome job. Those look great! I like the way the rotors are painted.

Hello fermis!

Those babies look really good! In Poland our Mi-24s never were outfitted this good (we didn't have those exhaust IR dampers). Could you show a photo showing one of those beauties directly head-on? I'd like to see how that twist of the fuselage looks like in scale.

Recently I have found one very funny paint scheme for a Hind on Hannants:

Starred in some Russian movie - funny, eh?

Thanks for sharing and have a nice day

Paweł

Being an old Coastie, I like that.

Were there any fit issues? 

Thanks all! 

Pawel

Hello fermis!

Those babies look really good! In Poland our Mi-24s never were outfitted this good (we didn't have those exhaust IR dampers). Could you show a photo showing one of those beauties directly head-on? I'd like to see how that twist of the fuselage looks like in scale.

Recently I have found one very funny paint scheme for a Hind on Hannants:

Starred in some Russian movie - funny, eh?

Thanks for sharing and have a nice day

Paweł

 

That marking option did get some serious thought!!!

A bit off center, but you can clearly see the "tilt", when you look at the winglets...

Revenant

Were there any fit issues? 

 

The tail portion fit great...everything in front of that was pretty rough.

Very interseting indeed. 

Shots of the actual USCG Hind-D in the Soviet-era movie. "Loaded with Death" (original title Zaryazhennye smertyu) was a 1991 Soviet action movie directed by Vladimir Plotnikov. A group of escaped criminals hijacks the Russian fishing vessel "Udachlivy" ("Lucky") in the waters of the North Pacific. A Soviet Border Guard patrol ship "Yuri Andropov" and a "US Coast Guard" helicopter make a joint operation to release the vessel.  

What's next???

Revenant

What's next???

 

A Chinook...a P-51....and a P-61....then I'm thinkin a couple 110's and maybe even a 410 as well!

fermis

 

 

Revenant

What's next???

 

 

 

 

A Chinook...a P-51....and a P-61....then I'm thinkin a couple 110's and maybe even a 410 as well!

 

Ok!

 Gotta Ask you Fermis . Did you show these to Humper Yet ? He's gonna choke . You do those instrument panels like I do them , even in my scratch built ship wheel-houses !

 Now for the Next question . When are you going to ship them to me ?  LOL.LOL.LOL. Great job on a Whacky Lookin pair of birds !  Tanker - Builder

Fermis,

Very nice work on the Hinds. Your weathering is spot on.  It reminded me of the former Bulgarian Hinds at the Cold War Air Museum near Dallas before they got repainted.  As impressive as they are on the ground, they're even more impressive in the air.