Squadron began shipping the kit today. YEEEEHAWWWWW!! I suspect I'll have it by the end of the week.

That is the one downside to VLS and the membership deal.. they are a bit slower to get the new goodies.

It's not listed as in yet at VLS.
Waiting is...

Mike

Going to check my shop this week. I can't wait! I have been looking forward to this kit for a long time. But it will end up on the shelf waiting for all of the aftermarket stuff to arrive. I hope it is as impresive as the reviews have stated. Now we just have to wait for it's big brother the Mi8 - 17 Hip. That will be a huge kit. And who knows Panda claims a Chinook! Were to keep all of them! I see Its time to look for a display case.

VLS lists the Hind as in stock and shipping!!

now to control myself until it arrives....

Mike

I'm shocked and amazed, but mine is here today.. unfortunately I have to work the rest of the day and go to an after school meeting. The school secretary did not believe I had a stomach ache and I needed to take my model and go home...

more details later..

Mike

Mine arrived as well.
Looks like a nice kit, I just gave it a quick once over while home for lunch. Looks like the engine nacelles are molded in clear plastic. I think I'll build one of them open anyway.
Looks like I'll do the russian version ... but maybe I'll get the courage to try the Czech paint job....

Oh no! Another model to build! Those pictures are just stunning!!! Got to do it! Got to do it! GOT TO DO IT!!!!!
capnjock

uNFORTUNATELY IT HAS N COME IN gREECE YET GUYS AND THERE WILL BE A MONTH OR SO TO COME . bUT WITH THAT ARMOR STASH LOOKING AT ME ...I DONT WORRY ABOUT IT !!!!!

just got mines today last one left in the shop! been drooling over it all morning :-) :-) :-) :-)

RATS... I just typed up most of a page of first impressions and sent them into the electronic ether to never be seen again...

I guess I have to keep a build log and cut and paste from there.

First impressions= good.

More later.
Mike

Here is the log of the build (B-log??) so far..

Trumpeter Hind Build impressions

Overall pretty good. I am a builder, not a river counting, scale plan-consulting, "that should be .0047mm longer" kinda guy. I want the right parts for the right variant to be in the box. And I want those parts to fit together with a minimum of hassle.

My first impression of the interior assembly is that I really like the box and tab assemblies for the interior. The fuselage has boxes molded into the inside and the structures added to it have long flat pins to fit into those boxes. On first dryfit the interior goes in quite nicely. There are some large e-pin marks on the fuselage interior, but I can't quite tell yet where they fall and if they need be dealt with ot not.


The instructions do not call out interior colors by FS #, as some might remember, I was trying to track down the color number/name for the interior of the troop compartment.

Pilot and WSO seats are good, and you get to build you own harnesses from PE buckles and paper. They do not provide the parachute (???) and the one pic I glanced at does not seem to match the pilot seat padding.

From first glances in the WWP book and the 4+ vol the instrument panel looks to be right, but remember to mask the flat map screen and the two instruments below. Those I painted with the Model Master Enamel for Soviet a/c interior. It's a little less blue than the pics I have, but passable.

I do notice that the electronics rack behind the pilots seat and before the passage into the troop comaprtment is missing, but at least the passage is there, unlike the Hasegawa and Italeri 1/72 kits.
Again, with the pics from the WWP book, nothing too hard to do.


I did build up the spare fuel tanks as a sort of a test for the 'round parts' since I did not intend to use them. I did not take too much care in getting everything lined up neatly, but it seems like with a little effort the round ordinance will be ok.

I painted the interior today with a Gunze Blueish grey.. I forget which at the moment..
And found a few large e-pin marks inside the wheel bays and some small ones in the corners of the doors, nothing too terrible.

End of Day 1 & 2

Any thoughts on should this be here, or a new topic? Since we hijacked the orig request long ago .

Mike

MLD:
I'd say kick out a new thread, I'm working an a 1/35th U-boat section now and if I make some good progress may start the hind (and finish the AH-1W) among other things.
I'd say a flat gull gray or anything close whould work for the troop compartment based on pics in the Verlinden lock-on. I think you can get by with just about any gray/blue gray. And it sounds like you have....

Yeap guys kick out a new thread " Mil 24 Hind 1/35 Build" cause seems that many people after you will build this beast ( i am one of them ) so maybe should do this. Do you want me to do so ? and if you can provide sauch nice step by step notes as MLD posts it will be helpfull for all of us. Some pics maybe also ?
Thanks Costas
No care for the hijackin it was usefull !!!!

Pics are in my gallery and the build log is unfortunately only on the third installment..

It's standardized testing season in the school where I teach, followed closely by report card season, and the wifey "needed" a raised herb garden bed built today...

It's on the bench and in the front of my mind.
A Cdn Friend has his 90%built.. I'll get permission from him and link in his pics.
He had problems with the fit of the troop compartment doors.

Mike