Having just picked up the Linden Hill and Begemot Hind decals, I'm looking for some more 1/72 Hinds to use these decals on.
My local shop has a Heller 1/72 Hind A/D.
Is this an Italeri or Hasegawa rebox, or are these Heller's own molds?
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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, perhaps you've misunderstood the situation.
Airfix/MPC?
It's the Airfix kit. You're better off with the Hasegawa or Italeri models.
HTH,
Andre
That's exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks, I'll order a couple right off and leave that one sit for the next guy.
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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, perhaps you've misunderstood the situation.
The Italeri is more inaccurate, but you can open up the cockpit, while the hasegawa is more accurate, but also a little bare. in any case enjoy making the most beautiful aircraft that ever flew! :) Cheers! Tvrtko
Hi,
The Best Mi-24 is to combine the Hasegawa exterior with the Italeri interior. One thing to note, amongst others, is that the Hasegawa IR-deflector over the exhausts is completely wrong, the Italeri ones are nearly perfect. If building a later Hind D/E/F with these deflectors, do not forget to cut the exhaust short. In order to fit the IR-deflectors, the exhausts were cut, with the front end of the exhaust having the normal length, and the rear being flush with the fuselage. This leads to huge smoke-trails on the fuselage.
Also note, the Hind-E by Hasegawa is actually the Hind-F. Hind-D is the version with the stepped cockpit, gunturret and large AT-4 rockets at the wingtips.
Hind-E is virtually identical, except that the large AT-4 rockets were replaced by AT-6 Spiral-missiles fired from tubes. Also, the gunner in the upper-cockpit has a reflector-visor. Adding that to the Hind-D cockpit is not too difficult, the spirals can be lifted from either the Hind-E kit or scratchbuilt.
The Hind-F (Hasegawa Hind-E) is the same as Hind-E, but the gunturret has been dropped, and a large twin-barrel Gast-type gun is placed on the starboard side of the cokcpit.
Also, most E's and F's have the Natasha-device and a different landing-light. Additional, the chaff/flare dispensers are located differently.
To create a Hind-G is more work, as this calls for a bulge in the cockpit glass. Hind-G was long thought to be chemical warfare variant, until the West learned the gas-containers turned out to be large droptanks.
Hind-G is mainly used as an observation platform. Hind-G also has the gunturret seen on Hind-D and E. Dragon has (had?) a 1/144 Hind-G kit.
Hind-B and C were short run production models.
Also note, the export designation of the Mil Mi-24 is either Mil-Mi 25 or Mil-Mi 35, depending on wether it went to Warsaw Pact or other countries.
Hope this helps.
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