Mi-6 first look

I just picked up the 1/72 AModel kit last month. Seems to be pretty accurate, but it looks like it's going to be a challenge to assemble.
Last month's Model Graphix featured a build of this kit, and the builder said it was indeed difficult, but the results are worth it.

It's huge, even in 1/72!

now here is a worthy subject for one of the big model companies. i built an mil6 years back from one of the eastern european companies, cant remember the mfg. the kit was crude, innaccurate, flashridden, and fit like mud chips from a dry lake bed, but what a beauty of a subject. so big, so sleek, its the 1965 pontiac bonneville of rotorcraft!
id like to see it in 1:48 and ill be doing mine in pure snow white. imagine russia joining nato and sending a mil 26 in tiger meet paint! wow!!

I got them off the internet, they look pretty accurate, I superimposed a picture of the real thing and it shows the same innacuracies.

You can get the plans from here, the site is in russian but it is worth it:
http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/mi6.html

and also:

http://www.airwar.ru/other/drawe.html

How accurate are your plans?

w-ww-well...... I guess I won't be getting that one! h-hehe

Ouch! I think that kit is the reason that we won the cold war, right? lol
Watch trumpeter jump on this beast and sell it for $150 bucks a pop, heheh.

With so much talk about German engeneering, you wouldn't know it from this kit! Sure the kit is old, but they could have done a little better job.

I am wondering how to disect the fuselage in order to make it a half decent kit. And that's not all, virtually everything needs major surgery- the wheels, ther rotor hub, the blades... the list goes on.
B.

Geeemini Christmas!!!! That really is a tad off, isn't it!! I thought the 1/144 Hasegawa DC-3 was bad, but yours takes the cake!

Thanks,
take care,
Frank