Soviet Mil Mi-6 "Hook"
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I acquired some time back a set of 5
badly beat-up Soviet Mi-6 heavy lift helicopters off of eBay. I
do not know the manufactuer, but they are fairly crude. They were
only partially painted and all the tails had come unglued. They
also lacked rotors of any sort. I cleaned them, reglued them,
added some simple struts, and then primed them gray. I also did a
fair bit of filing and removing of flash.
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(picture forthcoming)
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Here is the prototype I've done.
The rotors are stock plastic and of correct scale, except that where
they attack to the drive shaft (the half round piece) is too
long. The paint scheme is taken from that found on some Mi-26
Halos during the 1980's.
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For a flying stand, I need something strong -- the model is
very large and very heavy. I used a #8 framing nail set in
several large washers.
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