So far there have been three injection moulded kits of the Mi-28 on the market, all to 1:72nd scale. The first one was issued by Dragon Models (aka DML, Ref. No. 2501); it was later reboxed by Italeri (Ref. No. 110) and later still by the Russian manufacturer Zvezda (Mi-28A Havoc, Ref. No. 7246). The kit features movable rotors and a movable cannon. The model does have a number of inaccuracies – the fuselage is a bit too narrow, the nose shape is wrong, the WSO’s windshield has ended up rather too small and the WSO’s cockpit door is not reproduced. The rotors, especially the main rotor hub, are rather crude; therefore some modellers recommend buying Zvezda’s new Mi-35M kit and cannibalising it for the sake of the rotors.
Later, Zvezda issued a kit of the Mi-28N Night Havoc (sic, Ref. No. 7255). In so doing they made a replacement mould for the nose section, correcting the shape. However, rather than redo the entire fuselage they chose to include an extra sprue with the replacement nose (you have to cut off the old nose with a razor saw and mate the new one to the rest of the fuselage), and here’s where the problem lies – the new accurate nose does not fit well!