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Not sure if I would have the effort to build a model like this! But the 15 years of work shows, the details are amazing. Many of the hand crafted parts were made under a microscope. “Fully scratch built, this model took just over 15 years (8000-10,000 hours) to complete. Begun in Kiev (Ukraine), in 1986 this masterpiece was profoundly difficult to construct due to the extreme scarcity of information on it. In 1986 the Mil-24 was still a top secret piece of military equipment. A set of blueprints was ultimately obtained from the manufacturer and over 1000 photographs were used to ensure complete accuracy in the reproduction. The hind is molded out of 1.5 mm acrylic and clad with 0.1 mm aluminum sheeting. All parts are crafted from either aluminum, brass, titanium, stainless steel or silver, including working hinges made of solid silver to prevent corrosion. ”
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April 10th, 2006
No way I would have the dedication to put 15 years into something like this. My hat goes off to the guy (or gal) who pulled it off though, it looks great. I wonder what a collector would pay for a work of art like this?
April 12th, 2006
Incredible dedication. The detail on the helicopter is fantastic. This person must have some kind of aircraft or engineering background to get it so right.
April 13th, 2006
This is incredible. How did you do all the molding at home? What kind of supplies and tools did you use?
I’m particularly interested in the molding process. email me if you read this.
rich(dot)weber(at)gmail(dot)com
April 13th, 2006
Hi Rich,
I didn’t build it, I just thought it was very interesting! You can see more details via the link in the article. Here it is again:
http://www.precisemodeling.com/project_mi24.shtml
April 15th, 2006
this is a truly amazing model, there isn’t one thing that I can say shines as this mi 24 is so well done I can’t choose any one thing. . . . . it’s a once in a lifetime achivement, and I am grateful there’s pics of this for everyone to see
April 28th, 2006
GO BUYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ITTTTTTTTTT!!!
September 9th, 2006
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April 9th, 2007
cool blog!