The Mi-24 is a perennially popular subject with plastic kit manufacturers, and Hinds come in every shape and size – literally. In 1:72nd scale, the Mi-24 was first offered as an injection moulded kit in 1984 by Airfix (Mil Mi-24 Hind A/D, Ref. No. 05023); the kit was repackaged same year in the USA under the MPC brand (Ref. No. 1-4409). It allows you to build either the Mi-24A or the Mi-24D, with optional cockpit sections; the kit even lets you choose between the early or late Hind-A (with pusher or tractor tail rotor). The box contains three sprues with 132 parts and decals for a Soviet Air Force helicopter; the main components have raised panel lines. Accuracy is poor (the troop cabin is too far aft and has seats along the walls rather than on the centreline, the shape of the canopy and the main rotor blades is wrong etc.), and from today’s standpoint the Airfix kit can only be described as trash. (Airfix also had a kit called ‘Mi-24 Gunship’ which looked like a reissue of the above kit with decals for Soviet and Czechoslovak Air Force machines but had a separate reference number – (9)05017.) However, the kits are no longer available.
The French marque Heller also offered a ‘two-in-one’ Mi-24A/Mi-24D kit (Ref. No. 80369). The decal sheet lets you build a Soviet Mi-24A or an East German Mi-24D. There are unconfirmed reports that it is another iteration of the Airfix kit.