Picked this up at modelzone's closing down sale. I usually build armour but occasionally try a plane for a bit of variety and this one looked a mean machine.
The kit is a rebox using Zvezda moulds and is a monster of a kit with hundreds of parts including engines and gearbox, the detail for a small scale kit is amazing and really only let down a little by the cockpit which has decals for the instrument panels though there is an etch upgrade available which if I were to build it again would probabaly use. Assembly starts with the internals and the fit is good with no issues though it is important to make sure alignment is true and the fit is tight for these parts, as getting the two sides of the fuselage along with the two nose sides and nose floor to come together as one is no easy task and took me a lot of tweaking with files, scalpel and sandpaper particularly around the top where the rotor shaft emerges. I got it all together last night and left it overnight with clamps and lots of tape and am now at the horrible stage of trying to make the joins disappear.
I bought this kit as a quick fun build before starting something else and it's turned into a bit of an epic and definitely not one to be thrown together in a evening, with a bit of TLC though it may turn out well.
