In the second-hand international arms market, the price of buying a 70% new Mi-24 attack helicopter is between $3.7 million and $4.5 million. Although it is an old aircraft, it can still help some small countries to obtain the suppression effect on the regional battlefield, after all, Maozi's Mi-24 helicopter is also a kind of demonic existence now.
The horrors of war seem to be effective only for participants, but for many models or military enthusiasts, the Mi-24 is definitely an aerial arsenal in everyone's mind.
Tell us today's story, a scratch model was sold for 10 million US dollars!
"Scratch music" is actually a model term, but for many of our Gundam model players or military model players, this term is a bit strange. Scratch music comes from the English word "Scratchbuilt" which most directly means to build from scratch. A high-end gameplay of making models without trying out materials with the help of a variety of ready-made models. Because a metal lamination technique is often used in the production process, it is also called "scratch music" in the model circles of Hong Kong and Taiwan. As many foreign model products entered the Chinese mainland, the word scratch music became popular in many senior circles in the 90s.
But scratch music in the strict sense is just one method of Scratchbuilt, not all scratchbuilt.
Say today's protagonist:
Alex Sklyar in Ukraine at the time began to make a model of the Mi-24 in 1986, but the Soviet Union's first-line gunship was precisely the Mi-24, because it was one of the most important equipment, so the Mi-24 information was also strictly confidential, Alex Sklyar had to collect information on the Mi-24 from the photos published in the newspaper. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Alex Sklyar also got a complete set of Mi-24 drawings from the Soviet Mi-24 manufacturing plant, so this great masterpiece was accelerated.
The main body of the model is made of plastic plate + aluminum platinum (which is also the essence of scraping music), and all parts are made of aluminum, brass, stainless steel or silver, for example, most of the hinged parts are made of silver, which is corrosion-resistant and has a certain strength.
The model used more than 100,000 parts, many of which were manufactured under a microscope to ensure accuracy. Most of the tools used during the model making process are customized specifically for this model.
Later, the author immigrated to Canada, and in 2001, the Mi-24 model was finalized, and after a total of 15 years, the model came out and won several famous model competitions, and finally was included in the hands of collectors for $10 million, in fact, $10 million can already buy 2.5 real Mi-24 helicopters.