Mil Mi-6VKP 'Red 39'

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April 18, 2024
After opening the box you can see the usual short run quality - lots of molding burrs...
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April 18, 2024
... unclean engravings...
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April 18, 2024
... and many casting errors.
To start construction there is a lot of grinding, carving and engraving.
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April 20, 2024
After a few dusty hours, the first parts were removed from the frames and roughly cleaned.
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April 22, 2024
The interior work could now begin.
The cargo hold remains closed, so there is no need to go into every last detail - the whole thing serves more to stabilize the fuselage halves.
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April 23, 2024
Glued on a few pieces of plastic sheet to achieve a better fit between the front and rear fuselage.
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April 24, 2024
Deviating from the instructions, I glued the front and rear fuselage parts and the cargo compartment doors on each side.
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April 24, 2024
After some filling and sanding it looks pretty good. Engravings and details that were lost during sanding have been renewed.
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April 24, 2024
The glue seam on the cargo door is very thin. To stabilize it, I cut the marked part in half and glued it on each side.
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April 25, 2024
After a suitable indentation was scratched into the plastic, the first etched part could be glued on.
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May 10, 2024
All windows in the cargo hold are glued.
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May 11, 2024
A few etched parts were installed in the cockpit.
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May 11, 2024
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May 11, 2024
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May 11, 2024
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May 20, 2024
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May 20, 2024
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May 27, 2024
The fuselage halves are glued together.
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May 27, 2024
It had to be filled and sanded.
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May 27, 2024
With the restored engravings it doesn't look bad, in one or two places it needs to be reworked.
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June 1, 2024
More parts glued to the fuselage.
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June 1, 2024
After some filling, sanding and engraving it starts to look like a Mi-6.
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June 11, 2024
I started adding details to the helicopter using Evergreen material.
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June 11, 2024
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June 11, 2024
The two power sockets next to the door are a feature of the Mi-6 VKP that Amodel completely forgot about.
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June 13, 2024
With more parts added, the VKP subversion of the Mi-6 starts to take shape.
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June 13, 2024
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June 15, 2024
Pimp my main rotor head...
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June 15, 2024
The entire assembly currently consists of 61 individual parts.
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June 22, 2024
37 parts later...
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June 22, 2024
... the tail rotor is ready for painting.
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June 22, 2024
Now the rotor blades were test-fitted to the rotor head and then everything was provisionally attached to the helicopter for the photo.
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August 4, 2024
Last parts added, now we are reade for the fun part: playing with paints.
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August 5, 2024
Primer is painted on.
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August 5, 2024
The first colors are on the model.
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August 5, 2024
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August 7, 2024
With the decals added...
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August 7, 2024
... the model is ready for receiving a light weathering
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August 7, 2024
Some minor traces of dirt were added with oil paints.
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August 7, 2024
So what do you think? Time to remove the masks from the windows?
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August 8, 2024
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August 10, 2024
Finished model.
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Opmerkingen

104 18 April, 17:24

Florian H.
Da schau ich mal zu

18 April, 17:35

Dave Flitton
Massive! where are you going to put it?

18 April, 17:45

BAT21
Right next to my Mi-22 😉

Yellow 23 | Album by BAT21 (1:72)

18 April, 17:48

Alec K
Another monster! I am in 👍

20 April, 13:09

Nicolas
Ich nehm mir auch mal nen Stuhl.

22 April, 19:27

BAT21
Welcome on board.

22 April, 19:51

Thomas Kolb
Cool! This I just need to follow!

23 April, 15:34

Robert Podkoński
Me too!

23 April, 17:43

BAT21
I'm glad you're part of this project.

23 April, 18:28

Robert Podkoński
I have uploaded a few photos of Polish Mi-6 before and after restoration here:
Once there was a collection | Album by podkon ; and here:
Polish Air Force Museum - Dęblin | Album by podkon. Perhaps you will find them useful.

23 April, 19:04

BAT21
👍

23 April, 19:13

Ekki
Watching.

23 April, 19:15

Michael Kohl
BAT21 builds a chopper? Not without me!

24 April, 15:33

BAT21
Thank you very much for your interest.

27 April, 17:28

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Can't wait to see it finish !

27 April, 18:01

Florian H.
Sehr schön, Gratulation zu diesem Ergebnis 👍

10 May, 16:22

BAT21
Danke Florian.

10 May, 19:25

Bernd Grün
Promising start. 👍🏻 Following with interest!

14 May, 18:32

BAT21
It's nice that the audience seats are filling up.

15 May, 05:59

Alec K
Solid progress 👍

15 May, 20:15

Alexander Grivonev
Habe den Kit seit Jahren im Besitz, traue mich aber nicht ran. Was für ein Monster👍

24 May, 17:06

BAT21
Wer bei der Tu 128 von Trumpeter alle Fehler in Perfektion beseitigt hat, muss sich nicht vor der Mi-6 fürchten.
Etwas Spachtelmasse und Schleifpapier bereitlegen... und schon kann es losgehen 😉

24 May, 18:54

Alexander Grivonev
Ja das war wirklich eine Baustelle das Ding. Aber trotz des Ehrgeizes der Chinesen, dem Modellbauer auch den letzten Nerv zu rauben, sieht mir Amodel so auf den ersten Blick nach mehr Arbeit aus...

24 May, 21:21

Gergő Takács
Wow! Very cool Project! I will take a seat! 🙂

2 June, 07:32

Pierre Pierre
Following

2 June, 09:21

BAT21
Feel welcome mates.

2 June, 15:54

Michael Kohl
Starts to look like a Mil Mi-6? Well, then it's time to charge the teaser to a picture of your model. 😉

2 June, 19:37

Juergen Klinglhuber
Joining in late, but sure worth it. Clean built on this "filling the gaps" giant. 👍

15 June, 14:45

Treehugger
Q: The tiny "brass" colored tubes for the wiring on the main rotor head, are those bits of cut up syringe tips?

15 June, 16:42

BAT21
For these parts I cut 0.5mm brass tubes from Albion Alloys.

15 June, 17:05

Spanjaard
rotor head is truly impressive

15 June, 18:00

Alec K
I agree, pimped to the hilt 👍

16 June, 01:23

Casey Beckett
Recently discovered Albion Alloys here - lovely stuff!

16 June, 03:29

BAT21
Many thanks guys, much appreciated.

16 June, 16:39

CaptGPF
That rotor work is sick!
…but so is the PE cockpit work at this scale! Watching!

22 June, 17:03

Alec K
Excellent progress 👍

4 August, 15:14

Łukasz Gliński
On the pic #35 it looks professional, not provisional 😉

5 August, 12:16

Florian H.
Sehr schönes farbspiel

5 August, 18:03

BAT21
Many thanks 👍

5 August, 20:20

Łukasz Gliński
Yes it is time 👍 Brilliant shading btw

7 August, 20:08

Michael Kohl
Great finish

7 August, 20:42

Erik Off
"So what do you think? Time to remove the masks from the windows?"
Yes! 👍 😉

8 August, 05:52

BAT21
Thank you mates.
The self-cut masks on the side windows revealed a catastrophic picture after removal: something sticky remained on the windows... the hoped-for cover was also rather poor, the paint got under the masks at the edges. 🤬

Now I'll make a calming coffee and then try to repair it.

8 August, 08:42

Alec K
Damn, that sucks. I had same experience on several builds, nothing some scraping and reapplication of Future can't fix.

8 August, 13:08

Thomas Kolb
That's unfortunate, but maybe you can remove the tape residue with some IPA alcohol and cotton buds?

8 August, 13:25

BAT21
I scraped everything off with a toothpick, more or less. Not the best result, but the model was able to avoid being thrown away.

8 August, 14:37

Mr D
Very nicely done, great panel shading 👌 Brilliant 👍👍👍

8 August, 15:30

Mr D
Nicely done 👍 Great panel shading 👌, Brilliant 👍👍

8 August, 15:31

Guy Rump
A very good result, you wouldn't realise the issues you had. 👍

8 August, 15:36

Spanjaard
seems you recovered pretty well from the problem, congratulations great result

8 August, 16:41

Ekki
Very, very good chopper!
Well done.

8 August, 16:41

Nicolas
Great result. 👍

8 August, 17:55

BAT21
Thanks mates, much appreciated

8 August, 19:49

Rui S
Excellent as always 👍

8 August, 22:13

BAT21
With the attachment of the last parts and the assembly of the antenna forest, the helicopter is finished and the project is complete.

Thanks to everyone who has been part of this strenuous journey... and now have fun with the final pictures.

10 August, 14:46

Łukasz Gliński
Respect for the antennas. It looks great in the taiga 👍

10 August, 20:43

Spanjaard
congrats on a great model

10 August, 21:16