Shark mouth Mi-17 - Hobby boss 1/72
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 11:16 am
Started this kit some night agoand withouth take sprues pictures (i'll post later, another copy in the stash 
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Really like the mi-8 family and this kit is well engineed to simplify the building but some mod has done
Markings wil be in Czec shark mouth of boxart
What you can see from opened rear
Cut rear doors to display them opened , out of the signed cut in the kit , another cut on each door is needed and remove the joint pins. Also the two pieces cockpit bulkead glued in the first picture and glued wheels and exhausts (removed inner pins )
To fit the opened door triangle, the rear seats need some trim
Heres some more detail added
Doors and bulkead ready for paint
Windsreen houses seems too large for me, so i removed them , also glued side fuel tanks and filled all holes in the inner fuselage
To improve paint grip i sanded or scratch with 11# blade all frames
Instead of the Kp or Zvezda kit, the hobby boss have correct front windows arc, not parallel as the other two moulds
A dry fit test, also rotor blades are just fitted, not glued
Painting inners:
Doors almost ready
Theres no instruments printed in upper consolle, so i painted them
Almost done
At least a fire extinguisher is needed
As you can see a white drybrush was done on the pieces and also a light layer of gloggy clear to protect for next step : washing.. Till now only acrilics was used , so i'll wash with humbrol enamels .
At the next!
). Really like the mi-8 family and this kit is well engineed to simplify the building but some mod has done
Markings wil be in Czec shark mouth of boxart
What you can see from opened rear
Cut rear doors to display them opened , out of the signed cut in the kit , another cut on each door is needed and remove the joint pins. Also the two pieces cockpit bulkead glued in the first picture and glued wheels and exhausts (removed inner pins )
To fit the opened door triangle, the rear seats need some trim
Heres some more detail added
Doors and bulkead ready for paint
Windsreen houses seems too large for me, so i removed them , also glued side fuel tanks and filled all holes in the inner fuselage
To improve paint grip i sanded or scratch with 11# blade all frames
Instead of the Kp or Zvezda kit, the hobby boss have correct front windows arc, not parallel as the other two moulds
A dry fit test, also rotor blades are just fitted, not glued
Painting inners:
Doors almost ready
Theres no instruments printed in upper consolle, so i painted them
Almost done
At least a fire extinguisher is needed
As you can see a white drybrush was done on the pieces and also a light layer of gloggy clear to protect for next step : washing.. Till now only acrilics was used , so i'll wash with humbrol enamels .
At the next!
. The other hobby boss , surely russian but can't exclude more kits in future 
Now that the fuselage is together it is really taking on final shape.
