This is last year's project (yes, last year's - been a little busy with that pesky thing called, "real life"), and I'm just now getting around to posting it. It's a 1/72 scale Russian multipurpose Mi-24 helicopter, D variant. The kit is from Zvezda - nothing particularly special.
The kit was fairly basic, so I did a little scratchbuilding - just a few details around the cockpit and the door opening mechanism. I'm not too happy with the camouflage - I think the colors came out too similar - but it was a fairly simple kit, and I wanted to experiment with some techniques.
The camo pattern was masked off using Silly Putty, and I think the shapes came off right, even if the colors are a little off. I also wanted to experiment with bending the rotors the kit rotors were perfectly straight, and in real life the rotors droop. I achieved this by holding the rotors in front of a hair dryer and working them as they got soft. You have to be careful with this technique, however, as you can overdo it, and then it's hard to get the shape right (don't ask how I know...).
The cockpit itself was not too bad, the photo quality itself didn't come out too well - that's been another reason for not posting, our old camera doesn't take macro pictures well, but we're hoping to remedy that in the future. I added some decals from my old A-10 kit (I used a photoetch set with that one) to fill in some missing detail from the cockpit. Once again, the directions for painting given with the kit were pretty much useless - just another reminder to check reference photos before painting! :)
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