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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
..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
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?

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?

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

Re: Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 12:33 pm
by BsYamato

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.