Taking off on a tangent

I am going to venture to say that it is the Trumpeter Mi-17/Mi-8 kit.  I think that those are the engines that is on there.

HTH,

Austin

Aaahhh,

Nice motors.  I was going to guess something completely different, and I was going to be very wrong.  I'm sure it's going to turn out great.  I love that H-34 on your website. 

Semper Fi,

Chris

Looking VERY GOOD as always Swanny

Bud

Absolutely fantastic stuff, Swanny.

Please tell me those engines will get shown off by leaving the cowlings open.

Always glad to see somebody building Mil helos.

Engines look great although they are missing supports. The 'pit of Trumpeter kit is a separate story)))) To make it right everything need to be scratchbuild.

Here is nice walkaround for reference

http://walkarounds.airforce.ru/avia/rus/mil/mi-8mt/index.htm

Andy

Further development of the front office

I'm not especially thrilled with the seats. Trying to decide if I should rip them out and overhaul them or just let it be.

Looking GOOD Swanny as always

Bud

  Awesome work!

Keep it up!

Andy

Swanny,

Sweet looking build so far.  Only comment that I would give you is to double check the collectives, in the walk around that was posted above you can see that they are level with the seat and not almost vertical.  When the collective is positioned as you have it there would be a tremendous amount of pitch in the main and tail rotor blades.

Other than that, I hope that when I start my Hind it looks half as good as your Mi-8 looks so far.  Once again I am impressed!!!!

Thanks for posting,

Matt

blkhwkmatt wrote:

Swanny, Sweet looking build so far.  Only comment that I would give you is to double check the collectives, in the walk around that was posted above you can see that they are level with the seat and not almost vertical.  When the collective is positioned as you have it there would be a tremendous amount of pitch in the main and tail rotor blades. Other than that, I hope that when I start my Hind it looks half as good as your Mi-8 looks so far.  Once again I am impressed!!!!   Thanks for posting, Matt

Excellent catch there. I just checked my reference pictures and sure enough the collectives are not correct. It's not too late for me to fix that -- thanks for the tip.

Thanks for taking the time to post your progress, Swanny. The engine and interior detailing is looking superb.

Andy

Main rotor is not complete other than some light wash on the blades. Good thing this will be hanging from the ceiling cause it's bloddy huge.

Nice! What did you do for the metallic effect on the main rotor hub components?

Swanny,

 Very good job you've done there on your Hip's rotorhead! Paint job and plumbing...hmmmm cant wait to see more pics.  

BTW

   What markings this thing will have? There is pritty cool new walkaround of UN/Russian Hip on ARC helo page now.

  Andy 

  Go for the gunship! 

 Oh yeah, gunship from Afganistan 89' with rockets on pylons, MG's in the nose cone and back door and a AGM-17 in a side doorway!

I know I will go for something like that.

Andy