Dan Vadas
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Dan Vadas reacted to RGL in DKM Graf Zeppelin by RGL - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC
SEcond last piece to the puzzle, working on the Bf109t’s
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Dan Vadas reacted to RGL in DKM Graf Zeppelin by RGL - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC
So I have just discovered today this is what would really have been used as a tractor!!! How cool is this? I have to make it.
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from paulsutcliffe in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
Now for a REAL fun bit - the control system for the main rotor. Here are most of the parts :
The lower part :
A "drive shaft" part which controls the angle :
The upper part. I used a 2mm punch to keep the centres aligned while gluing the pieces together :
The upper and lower parts fitted to the main shaft :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Old Collingwood in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
The final pieces of the exhaust coolers are two flanges :
The coolers fitted. I'll fit the right side one later, as it will be in the lowered position :
I've re-installed the part that broke off earlier and fitted the guards around it :
Then I fitted the weapons platforms :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from mtaylor in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
Now for a REAL fun bit - the control system for the main rotor. Here are most of the parts :
The lower part :
A "drive shaft" part which controls the angle :
The upper part. I used a 2mm punch to keep the centres aligned while gluing the pieces together :
The upper and lower parts fitted to the main shaft :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from paulsutcliffe in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
The final pieces of the exhaust coolers are two flanges :
The coolers fitted. I'll fit the right side one later, as it will be in the lowered position :
I've re-installed the part that broke off earlier and fitted the guards around it :
Then I fitted the weapons platforms :
Danny
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Dan Vadas reacted to Captain Slog in Borodino by Captain Slog - Dom Bumagi - 1:200 - CARD
Hi all,
A bit more progress, the rear deck fitted last time now has its hand rails and stairs fitted.
Then is was on to the upper deck fitting the cabins, stair, bracing and columns ready for installing.
The finished rear decks and structures with previously made compass platform and a couple of ready ammo boxes.
A few shots of all progress to date
Heading back to Melbourne tonight for who knows how long but looking forward I think I will head concentrate on the ships boat decks amidships which go over and cover all the previously installed skylights etc.
Cheers
Slog
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Dan Vadas reacted to lmagna in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
Great work Danny
I do not think I would want to be around when those bombs were dropped. Helicopters as a rule are kind of low and slow aircraft. Bombs tend to be a high and fast type of weapon. I have read of more than one case where the dropping aircraft almost got it's own tail plucked when the fuse of the bomb they dropped at low altitude had been set too short! There is a BIG difference between 1/10th of a second and 10 seconds when you are already close to the ground and the bomb does not have that far to travel!
The exhausts you built were probably cooling, or diverting exhausts. Helicopters are a BIG target for shoulder fired heat seeking missiles.
It's been fantastic following your build.
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Dan Vadas reacted to popeye the sailor in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
rocket racks look very good.......nicely done!
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Dan Vadas reacted to popeye the sailor in Cape Byron Lighthouse by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - HMV - 1:250 - CARD
you really should do the other vans.........that one looks so cool! superb job Danny........totally awesome build!
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from pjofc4 in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
This is the main landing gear bay. I'm going to install all the parts for this and prepare it for the landing gear, but I won't fit the gear until the winglets have been fitted :
Two of the four landing gear doors :
The medicine cups hold the myriad of different parts for the landing gear struts, among a few other items :
One of the landing gear struts. Note the spiral groove cut into the wire with an Xacto knife to assist in glue adhesion :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from hexnut in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
I'm guessing these are some type of exhaust noise suppression units (aka mufflers ). They are quite complex assemblies which needed very careful cutting and gluing at every stage to ensure that no problems arose later on. I'm very happy with the final results :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from hexnut in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
Now that I've finished the Lighthouse it's back to this model . Moving along with the missile brackets, I used the jig to assemble them :
Next I added the air lines made from 0.2mm wire :
The completed missiles. I forgot to take progress pics. The wire pieces haven't been painted yet :
All finished and fitted to the racks :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from pjofc4 in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
The inside of the rocket launcher needed to be painted, one of the very few bits of this kit that could have been designed better :
The launchers fitted to the wings :
The two bombs were an enjoyable step :
Again, there is a mistake in the kit. The outer side of the rings should have had a coloured piece fitted. I used some left-over card from the two bombs that I wasn't going to fit to fix the problem :
The nose cones came out the best of any rounded pieces I've done so far :
The bombs fitted :
The four missiles use a mounting bracket. These are a rather involved unit, as there are 28 pieces of wire holding the inner part to the other which needed 56 0.5mm holes drilled right on the edge of the parts. This step took me 3 hours :
More pieces of the brackets :
I made a jig to assemble the rails :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from hexnut in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
The two rocket launchers took me three days to make. The kit gives you the option of using 4 launchers, 4 bombs or a combination of the two. I've opted to do two of each. Hopefully the pics are fairly self-explanatory about the construction :
There were a total of 58 1.0mm diameter angled tubes to make which fit inside the oval holes in the nose cones :
I glued a toothpick to each cone for ease of handling :
Aligning each internal tube was accomplished with the aid if a piece of 1mm wire :
The tubes were not a perfect fit, but quite easy to trim down after the glue dried :
A bit of touch-up acrylic paint was needed after the trimming :
Finally, 5 more tubes were fitted to the end of each cone :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from pjofc4 in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
The "winglets", or Weapons System Platforms if you like, were a relatively easy step to construct. I had to glue the trailing edge of the wings in-situ after making up the frames this time, as the vertical pieces of the wings didn't allow me to fit the wings the "usual" way :
The left wing has a pod attached :
I made the rocket launcher/bomb pods as a demonstration of Card Model Building at the Port Macquarie Model show over the weekend, although I seemed to be spending most of the time explaining the construction of card models to interested spectators :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from hexnut in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
The four-barrel "Gatling" type gun and it's swivelling mounting. This is another piece that will be fitted later in the build :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from pjofc4 in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
This pod fits beneath the gunner's cab. Two smaller pods are attached to it :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Papa in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
This is the main landing gear bay. I'm going to install all the parts for this and prepare it for the landing gear, but I won't fit the gear until the winglets have been fitted :
Two of the four landing gear doors :
The medicine cups hold the myriad of different parts for the landing gear struts, among a few other items :
One of the landing gear struts. Note the spiral groove cut into the wire with an Xacto knife to assist in glue adhesion :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from pjofc4 in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
Now that I've finished the Lighthouse it's back to this model . Moving along with the missile brackets, I used the jig to assemble them :
Next I added the air lines made from 0.2mm wire :
The completed missiles. I forgot to take progress pics. The wire pieces haven't been painted yet :
All finished and fitted to the racks :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from pjofc4 in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
The two rocket launchers took me three days to make. The kit gives you the option of using 4 launchers, 4 bombs or a combination of the two. I've opted to do two of each. Hopefully the pics are fairly self-explanatory about the construction :
There were a total of 58 1.0mm diameter angled tubes to make which fit inside the oval holes in the nose cones :
I glued a toothpick to each cone for ease of handling :
Aligning each internal tube was accomplished with the aid if a piece of 1mm wire :
The tubes were not a perfect fit, but quite easy to trim down after the glue dried :
A bit of touch-up acrylic paint was needed after the trimming :
Finally, 5 more tubes were fitted to the end of each cone :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from pjofc4 in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
I continued further toward the tail, completing the fin and elevators. These went together without too many dramas. I've changed my method of skinning to a certain degree. I now glue the skin together along the edges and slip it over a faired framing, doing more fairing until it's a good fit and the skin slips in easily before gluing them together :
Although it won't be fitted until the end of the build I made the tail rotor. This is quite a complex arrangement, and will be good practice for the main rotor later. Here are most of the parts :
First part is a universal joint :
The rotor arms. Wire is used for strengthening :
The finished assembly :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from lmagna in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
I'm guessing these are some type of exhaust noise suppression units (aka mufflers ). They are quite complex assemblies which needed very careful cutting and gluing at every stage to ensure that no problems arose later on. I'm very happy with the final results :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from lmagna in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
Now that I've finished the Lighthouse it's back to this model . Moving along with the missile brackets, I used the jig to assemble them :
Next I added the air lines made from 0.2mm wire :
The completed missiles. I forgot to take progress pics. The wire pieces haven't been painted yet :
All finished and fitted to the racks :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from lmagna in Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter
The two rocket launchers took me three days to make. The kit gives you the option of using 4 launchers, 4 bombs or a combination of the two. I've opted to do two of each. Hopefully the pics are fairly self-explanatory about the construction :
There were a total of 58 1.0mm diameter angled tubes to make which fit inside the oval holes in the nose cones :
I glued a toothpick to each cone for ease of handling :
Aligning each internal tube was accomplished with the aid if a piece of 1mm wire :
The tubes were not a perfect fit, but quite easy to trim down after the glue dried :
A bit of touch-up acrylic paint was needed after the trimming :
Finally, 5 more tubes were fitted to the end of each cone :
Danny
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