In this topic i will construct 2 of Zvezda's mi-28's. Both of the mi-28's will be corrected and built with some scratch built features as well as parts from other kits.



here is my progress so far since i got started:







more pictures of my progress on the way.

Looking very forward to these builds. It's quite a purposeful looking helo.
Why the fuselage surgery right out of the gate?
and one last question (of many to come, I am sure) why the Zvezda kit?

Mike

The zvezda kit is the only one that i feel is the best kit for building a mi-28ne. also i cut the off before the picture was taken.

Here are some more pictures of my work.

I cut off the nose sensor because zvezda made it too long and i will replace it with a shorter one that came with the kit. i also put some more work on the fuselage.



this is the inventory of helicopters based weapons ihave. but only some will be used.



some times when i build models i like to put things together to see how they may look, so this is what it may look like when its finished.

Here's what i've been up to recently.

Here are some extra pictures showing my progress.















When i reached this point i did some more research and found out i missed some detail.



I also put a bit of stowage inside the cargo bay

I’ve finally finished the painting of the cargo bay interior now.


Sorry about the quality of this picture but this is the best one out of all of them.


I finally got started on gluing the two halves together

I had issues with gluing the cockpit to the shell which resulted into this happening:

I put a metal pin for the rotor head for more strength.

Now it’s finally ready to be glued together.

Here are the glued halves.





I had another look at my blue prints and found out that the tail under belly wasn’t very accurate. So I put some filler in order to start reshaping the correcting the tail underbelly.

I also got to work on filling and sanding on any imperfections.










A look at how the canopy fits.

The start of working on the chin mounted canon parts.

Work on the MI-28 Rear wheel made from a Hobby Boss MI-24’s front wheels. Sorry about the quality of the pictures.


When I got started on the engine covers I realized that one of the engines was positioned wrongly which caused problems when measuring to see if the covers fit correctly. If you look closely you can see that one of the engines is raised a bit higher than the other engine.



So as a result I cut it of using a precision saw then glued it back in the correct position.
Here are some pictures of the Mi-28ne in its present state so far.




Now I’m starting work on the engine suppressors.


More progress to come.

Wow, that is a lot of work! But it looks good so far!



Jelger

I'm coming back to work on this after a while with some new progress.

I printed out some blue prints and tried my best to print it out to scale



I'm also working on a filly rotating chin mounted gun.





corrected parts for the ammunition storage magazines for the chin mounted canon.







Hope you enjoy,

Hyder