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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 :analintruder: - it really did exist - as shown in this photo....

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A lot of hacking, filling and sanding later......

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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.

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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 :whistle:

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My attempt at repicating the photos of the real thing......

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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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Posted

Well done Ken, there's not going to be many of those around! All the hard work has certainly paid off.

Enjoy the lie down.....

Steve

Posted

Just had a look at your 'Flankers' site' page on this. What an amazing job - and daring (and imaginative) choice of subject.

It helps that it came out beautifully.

Posted

That`s brilliant Kent.

Enlightening us once again.

Adrian

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That,s something you don't see everyday! Outstanding work Ken,and a flawless conversion too :thumbsup:

Posted

A very nice model of an interesting subject, as others have said you won't see many of these around.

I can't help wondering why the Russians went to the trouble of fitting the complete Tu-91 forward airframe including glazing when they just wanted to test the engine!

Duncan B

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Superb modelling and a pedagogic tour-de-force!

The inteventiveness of the Russians never fails to astound…

Kind regards,

Joachim

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A very nice model of an interesting subject, as others have said you won't see many of these around.

I can't help wondering why the Russians went to the trouble of fitting the complete Tu-91 forward airframe including glazing when they just wanted to test the engine!

Duncan B

My thoughts exactly.

There are few details about it - in fact it was the publication of Yefim Gordon's / Schiffer hardback book that brought it to my attention.

He had previously mentioned it in his Red Star Tu-4 softback, but only published three actual photos in the Schiffer book.

There are so many questions that it raises -

how many flights were made? -

how did the Tu-4 handle that assymetric thrust? -

was the Tu-91 cockpit fully fitted out? -

if so was it manned for the flights?? -

if not - how was the Tu-91's TV-2M turboprop controlled?

All fascinating stuff.

Ken

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I'm well impressed with that build!

Martin

Posted

Now that is different and impressive work.

Guy

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Wow! That looks extremely impressive. Absolutely fascinating choice of subject and very nicely made. Well done :)

Posted

Very well finished, one heck of a weird beast but you have caught the lines very well. Well done indeed!

Bob

Posted

Totally love this! Fascinating on many levels as a subject and beautifully executed as a model.

Cheers

John

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Now there's one you don't see every day, Ken! I doubt at your local IPMS show someone's going to walk by the table muttering 'Not another one...'. Great job!

Regards,

Jason

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