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Re: Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 3:56 am
by BsYamato
Last night mesked black areas after the engines zone with black grey

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..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 :quotes:
Insigna and numbers are posing with real pictures, instructions reports wrong places to put them.

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At the next with the other stencils

Re: Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 9:07 am
by jkim
Very interesting markings on this one!

Re: Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 4:16 pm
by Stikpusher
Is that a tongue hanging out of the mouth? :hmm:

Re: Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 4:19 am
by BsYamato
Stikpusher wrote:Is that a tongue hanging out of the mouth? :hmm:
Yes :)

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


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

Re: Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 2:31 pm
by Stikpusher
That's looking real good there BSY! Quite colorful too!

Re: Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 6:53 pm
by Duke Maddog
Sweet job. That is a great looking helicopter.

Re: Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 3:08 am
by BsYamato
Thanks :bye:


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


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

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

At the next!

Re: Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 9:37 am
by BorgR3mc0
That is not a shark mouth, that is a dogs mouth with that tongue hanging out! :tease:

Re: Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 12:33 pm
by BsYamato
:hmm: interesting, never considered about dogmouth

Re: Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 4:15 pm
by Stikpusher
There was an O-1 Birddog in Vietnam that had a similar dog mouth painted on... for obvious reasons.