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The new kit from the Ukrainian firm of Modelsvit - a Soviet Tu-91 turboprop ground attack aircraft, cancelled on the whim of Nikita Kruschev.... Not the easiest of kits to put together - especially the undernose glazing - but an interesting model of an unusual Soviet design. More power to Modelsvit for producing kits of these off-beat designs.... Some more photos of the finished model - plus WIP photos here. Another photo showing it next to my Tu-4/Tu-91 engine testbed.... Happy Modelling Ken -
I'm calling it finished.... it's an Academy B-29 painted as a Tu-4 Bull with a Modelsvit Tu-91 Boot attached as an engine testbed - it really did exist - as shown in this photo.... A lot of hacking, filling and sanding later...... Because I used Milliput to form the rear end of the cut-down Tu-91 fuselage, it is very tail heavy - so I had to fit a support prop under the Tu-4 tail. I reckon if they removed the turboprop engine and put a few seats in the Tu-91, they could have made a neat passenger version of the Tu-4 My attempt at repicating the photos of the real thing...... Comments welcome - more photos of the build are here I'm going for a lie down in a dark room now..... Ken
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Or - putting the Boot in... Take one of these...... .... add in one of these..... ..... mix in a little of this..... Stew for a few weeks..... and hopefully, end up with one of these.... Watch my back.... I'm going in..... Ken
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Look what Santa just delivered (in the guise of Martin, our village postman)..... The latest from the increasingly prolific Ukrainian enterprise of Modelsvit. A contender for the prize of 'Ugliest Aircraft', the Tu-91 was designed as a carrier-based ASW platform.... Powered by a single TV-2 turboprop driving contra-rotating props, it made its maiden flight on 2 November 1954 and pased all its tests, but the carrier programme was cancelled and it got the Boot Continuing Modelsvits improving limited-run mouldings with delicate engraved detail, the fuselage is in two halves... ....as are the wings....... Interior and undercarriage sprues.... Tailplanes, exhaust trunking and props...... Clear parts, simple decal sheet and canopy masks.... Paint matches are given for the Humbrol range of enamels.... .... although the colour scheme and markings are quite plain..... I have to mention Hobby Terra for their excellent service - I ordered it on the 11th December and it was delivered today 23rd December - despite the Christmas rush. The packaging was very good. As soon as my Tu-22 Blinder is finished, I'll make a start. Ken PS - Also ordered and delivered with the Tu-91 was the Modelsvit Yak-140 and Yak-1000 kits