Mi24D Hind by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD - Russian Attack Helicopter

[gjdale]

Superb work Danny. The kit may be a good one, but it takes a true master to realise its full potential and you are doing just that.

[druxey]

Extraordinary paper engineering, Danny!

[hexnut]

What a magnificent beast!  Love the details!  I remember making a little 1/72 plastic one years back in Hungarian air show display livery...

[popeye the sailor]

looks fantastic Danny   

[Old Collingwood]

Superb work  of a beast of a helicopter,  I was lucky  years back to see a couple in the flesh flying at an airshow  - what a helicopter.

 

OC.

[Dan Vadas]

The two air intakes needed careful assembly. I did most of the work on a piece of MDF with double-sided tape attached to make it easier (read POSSIBLE ) to put them together :

 

This is the skin that covers the transmission. It has an internal skin as well :

 

The next skin forward has two 90 degree tubes fitted to it. They need to be fitted to the skin before it's fitted :

 

Danny

[Old Collingwood]

Very fine work.

 

OC.

[Dan Vadas]

Next to be made is the central turbine. I'm pretty happy with the way the rotor shaft turned out :

The fascia surrounding the turbine wasn't real easy to make :

I prepare several skins at once to make sure everything fits properly. A fair bit of dry fitting is involved :

I found another guy on a Czech Papermodelling site (needs Translator) who has built this model. This bloke is above my skill level, and his build log has come in very handy when I get a bit stuck in the instructions. He's also documented most problems he's had along the way so I can (hopefully  ) avoid them. This stage was one of those, and I'm very grateful to him. Apparently he didn't fair some of the framing enough around the turbines, so I made sure that I did :

 

The turbines and air intakes fitted :

 

 

 

Danny

 

[druxey]

That is seriously crazy, Dan! Quite remarkable work.

[Old Collingwood]

Fantastic work you should feel proud of yourself what you are creating.

 

OC.

[popeye the sailor]

look'in sweet Danny..........good thing I'm seeing an expertly built model like this.......I'd never be able to build one in my lifetime   

[mtaylor]

My gast has been seriously flabbered...  

[ccoyle]

And now, many people will realize why Halinski are considered the "gold standard" of card models. Basically, ALL Halinski models have this level of detail and degree of difficulty -- they don't do beginner or intermediate models. I have only completed one Halinski model successfully, and the other got the better of me and ended up being binned. Finishing one is kind of a badge of honor in the card modeling world.

[Dan Vadas]

Thank you all once again  .

 

The next section of skins have some interesting pieces fitted to them. There is a louvered panel which took me over a day to make :

 

 

Another fun piece on the back skin :

 

 

 

The next section toward the tail :

 

The Czech guy thought he had a problem with the length of the framing, and it is actually shorter than the skin, but with the right amount of fairing the problem became obvious and mine fits perfectly. However I did make a bit of re-enforcement where it attaches to the forward section. I'm not fitting the two sections together until most of each has been completed for ease of handling. I've dry-fitted both sections together and the fit is perfect  :

 

She's going to be BIG  :

 

Danny

[ccoyle]

Louve-ly work!

[BETAQDAVE]

On 5/27/2019 at 1:19 PM, Old Collingwood said:

I found this link to a mi24d  in a uk museum  - scroll down past the  first two pics, and there are some  good close up and interior  pics.

 

    This chopper was also featured in several movies including one of the Rambo films. (Rambo III I think).  Have a look at the film for a good look at it in  action.

[Old Collingwood]

12 minutes ago, BETAQDAVE said:

    This chopper was also featured in several movies including one of the Rambo films. (Rambo III I think).  Have a look at the film for a good look at it in  action.

Dave,   In the Rambo film  it was a Puma  mocked up to be a Hind   -   curtosy of the film and the net.

 

OC.

[GrandpaPhil]

Excellent work!

[Dan Vadas]

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

[popeye the sailor]

the tail rotor looks great     nice to see a picture of the model done so far .

[Old Collingwood]

Great work  looking really smart.

 

OC.

[maaaslo]

On 6/27/2019 at 2:18 AM, Dan Vadas said:

 found another guy on a Czech Papermodelling site (needs Translator) who has built this model. This bloke is above my skill level, and his build log has come in very handy when I get a bit stuck in the instructions. He's also documented most problems he's had along the way so I can (hopefully  ) avoid them. This stage was one of those, and I'm very grateful to him. Apparently he didn't fair some of the framing enough around the turbines, so I made sure that I did

Wait...

i need to correct a few points.:

1,   Forum is not Czech, it is Slovak. .SK part of web address suggests that (not nitpicking at all...)

2, Brzdic (his name) is not only above your skill, he has a chair in Vallhala, Pantheon, Round table and at every other place of full of mythical skills.

3, yes, he is that good...

4, reason for some parts not fitting is according to him not only fairing, but most probably the fact that he laminated parts himself, on his own stock and did not account for thickness properly. it just shows, how precise Halinski is...

dont mean to hijack your post, but id like to show what i have been working yesterday. it is by no means a quality i could compare to yours, hell no. you are quickly becoming one of the most skillful paper modellers i have ever encountered.

 

if you dont mind, i present my attempt at Hms Victory lanterns. One of them so far. Took me a day and needs retouching if edges.

Edited July 2, 2019 by maaaslo

[Dan Vadas]

22 minutes ago, maaaslo said:

Forum is not Czech, it is Slovak

Oops, my bad  . Sorry about that Pav.

 

22 minutes ago, maaaslo said:

Brzdic (his name) is not only above your skill, he has a chair in Vallhala, Pantheon, Round table and at every other place of Mythology.

Yes, he is that good...

Yep, I have to agree with that. However (blowing my own trumpet here   ) I think my turbine inlet fascia turned out better than his. Then again, if I hadn't found his build log where he warned about the potential for error it would have turned out a lot worse  . Brzdic's is the first pic, mine is the second :

Nice work on the lantern Pav.

 

Danny

[Mirabell61]

Very impressing work Danny,

and so well detailed

 

Nils

[maaaslo]

Agree, Danny, your inlet does look better.

[pontiachedmark]

Gidday Danny,

I am seriously late in joining this build as I've been crook for the last couple of weeks.

Once again I am floored by the scale and your expertise.

Simply fantastic work.

Wishing you all the best,

Mark.

[Dan Vadas]

The tail sections have been fitted together :

 

This looks like some kind of cooler, oil perhaps ?

 

Last of the bigger pieces for the tail section :

 

 

The struts of the rear support :

 

Danny

[Dan Vadas]

The elevator support wire needed a piece of paper wrapped around it :

 

Last of the pieces for the tail section. Yes, they are meant to be mounted at an angle :

 

Danny

[popeye the sailor]

amazing ..........really looks great!   

[GrandpaPhil]

Fantastic work!