Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72

[BsYamato]

Last night mesked black areas after the engines zone with black grey





..And here the mouth :
with few other decals. Using also a begermot sheet about Hip stencils, lots to put in the next sessions. Obliviously i used two glossy layers before
Insigna and numbers are posing with real pictures, instructions reports wrong places to put them.







At the next with the other stencils

[jkim]

Very interesting markings on this one!

[Stikpusher]

Is that a tongue hanging out of the mouth?

[BsYamato]

Is that a tongue hanging out of the mouth?

Yes

Almost all stencils (from begermot Hip stencil sheet) are placed










Now left few to put and refine the details.
At the next

[Stikpusher]

That's looking real good there BSY! Quite colorful too!

[Duke Maddog]

Sweet job. That is a great looking helicopter.

[BsYamato]

Thanks


Now rotor affairs:
A mix to match the rotor blades colorand masking aluminium on the front.






during the masking i recalled that i have another hip under wip and rotor colors are the same..



then , not in picture i give it five layers of the same grey/green color

At the next!

[BorgR3mc0]

That is not a shark mouth, that is a dogs mouth with that tongue hanging out!

[BsYamato]

interesting, never considered about dogmouth

[Stikpusher]

There was an O-1 Birddog in Vietnam that had a similar dog mouth painted on... for obvious reasons.