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Hi, In a middle of 1930s a concept o "fast bomber" appeared. In opposide to "slow bombers" like our favourite Bloch MB 200 they could operate with speed equal or even exceeding those of interceptors, and therfore no fighter escort was neccessary. Spanish Civil War was first war theater in which this concept was tested. From Nacionalist perhaps side the main example of fast bomber was Dornier Do 17 and from Republican side was Tupolev SB2. The "SB" comes from Russian "Skoriy Bobardovshchik" what mean directly : "fast bomber" Here I want to post my very archive models - both are older than 40 years from glueing, although before posting I did some serious refurbishing - which was not a total repair, since glueing was not improved. But majority of painting work is new (since I had to fill some gaps etc...). However, not all of painting is fresh. Especially I wanted to left untouched an arc emblem on SB-2 - which is a free hand painting on model made bu young JWM (myself in age of about 15 ), My Dornier is Do 17F (more recce a/c than bomber in fact) from Legion Condor about 1937, Airfix kit, and Tupolev SB 2 is in markings of Republicans from Barcelona, 1938, Frog kit. BTW - from 1937 or 1938 to 1975, when I made them, elapsed less then 40 years, so times of SCW were closer to time of building the models that those days from now! Here they are, Dornier and Tupolev: The Dornier alone: And a whole small Legion Condor representation from my collection: Tupolev SB 2 M100 (Frog) alone: And the close-up on arc emblem Comments welcome Regards Jerzy-Wojtek
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