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Re: New MOC: Mi-24 Hind-D SOV (Special Operations Variant)
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Tue, 9 Apr 2002 06:40:12 GMT
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Lindsay,
The rotor blades were simple enough to build, actually: as I mentioned before,
they're based on ten black plate-hinges from my old 8839 Technic Supply Ship.
Essentially I folded five hinges into a near-closed shape like a V, arranged
them into a circle with the hinge points (bottom of the Vs) on the inside, laid
down the backbone 16x2 plates for each rotor on top of them, then put the other
five on top of the 16x2s as structural reinforcement. The resulting design is a
flexible pentagon, which can be held in place and almost-but-not-quite centered
on a 4x4 turntable with 1x2 single-stud tiles. I don't have it now, but I'll
get the camera again for some detailed shots next weekend.
The rocket-pod tiles are indeed a custom job, although nowhere nearly as
involved as they look: I simply used a Photoshop pixel grid to draw one black
rocket dot in the pattern, cut-and-pasted that one for the other eighteen, and
inscribed all that into a half-inch circle. I printed out several dozen copies
of the rocket-pod pattern on a few sheets of adhesive label paper for later use,
cut two out, and stuck the resulting decals directly on to stock 2x2 round
tiles. They'll come right off, as easily as any standard address label stuck on
plastic. Again, I should have taken more photos, but the model's been so slowly
developed (my first version was done about three years ago) that I take a lot of
the details for granted. :)
*grabs his B-Wing, strips off the canopy and sticks it on* Hmmm. Looks right
from a head-on perspective, what with the rounding and all...I'd need to
redesign the cockpits, both of which are square-cornered like the current
canopies. The main issue would be my inability to put hinges into the already-
tight nose design for those front ends to open up with...of course, I'm also a
touch lazy because the forward cockpit's a little short and I don't want to
admit it!
Wild West heads. Ouch! The current heads are relatively friendly because I
took a few years of Russian here in high school; there are quite a few Russians
in Alaska because we're so close to the Russian Far East, and they're all
wonderful folks. My Russian teacher in high school was married to a helicopter
pilot who came over with her from Russia...he'd picked up his skills as a Soviet
air-cavalry pilot instructor, teaching recruits how to fly Hinds among other
things. Sometimes she'd be sick, and he'd run our class for her...he was a
hilarious guy, prone to barking "Drop and give me tventy!" whenever you missed a
question, then cracking a grin in case you thought he was serious. Somehow
giving him horrible teeth and a homicidal grin seemed out of place. ;)
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