Sovietise it!!!!

[Aircav]

Hi Daryl
you could always do a Scale-a-rama on the Canberra, 1/48 kit and scale it for a 1/72 bomber, smaller cockpit canopy, smaller wheels, may be Vulcan type bogies, it would have one big bomb bay 
Steve

[Spey_Phantom]

i had a dream last night, that gave me sudden burst of inspiration to sovietise a viper.
i dreamed i was flying in one of these planes with The Swifts. now that the idea is here, im gonna get me a cheap F-16 kit and swift it up 

i got the kit yesterday  , i got some old Red Stars in the decal box, althought the stripes for the underside wil have to be custom made.

anyways, i got some sovied parts/weapons in the spares, so im ready to begin as soon as the GB starts 

[PR19_Kit]

Daryl,

What could have become of the Canberra had the Soviets reverse engineered it, then changed it again and again and again?

They'd have probably STILL ended up with the Il-28 Beagle.........

[Sauragnmon]

So do we have a tenative date to begin the bashing?  My whifbashing hammer's getting twitchy here.

[Daryl J.]

Funny you say the Beagle.  That's what I had in mind as a target point for the big Airfix kit, but engineered by Tupolev.    Glass nose, framed, and smooth, contraprops (multiple row due to short blade length), stretched, rewinged on the portion outside the engine nacelles, etc.


Also, the TSR.2 and the CF-105 Arrow might be candidates because of the alleged Russian moles in the programs.

Daryl J.

[Sauragnmon]

Yes, they might at that... hmm... very interesting...

*wanders off whistling the Soviet theme*

[puddingwrestler]

How about going old school - the Brewster Buffallo and Commonwealth Boomerang are rather soviet looking designs... maybe make them look even more primative ( ), a lick of paint... or use one as the basis for a Soviet Biplane like the Polikarpov I-15?

And you could always make an ealry ZIL (or possibly ZIS) limo - they bought the toolings from Packard so they where basically direct copies. As where most soviet limos copies of American styling, applied with a heavy hand and a plasterers trowel  And let's face it, it'd be kinda fun to try to build a Soviet era copy of a Hot Rod...

[Daryl J.]

The cowling for a Polikarpov I-16 should fit on a Buffalo without too much modification.     Maybe hang a pair of skis from a Yak-7 on its toes for a winter machine?



Daryl J.

[B777LR]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G75tH2wfvQ

COMRADES!

Ive got my battalion of DC-9s and Harriers, just waiting for the invasion of the capitalist west!

Do we have any start dates yet?


ZA RODINA!

[Weaver]

Hmmmmm talk of Harriers got me thinking: suppose a film company did a deal with the RN to get a movie out of Illustrious and Ark Royal before they're scrapped? The movie's set in a 1980s WWIII, so one of them gets to play itself, but is "paint and canvas" modified back to it's 1980's spec, and carries GR.9's painted to look like SHARs (false radome etc...) The other one plays the Soviet carrier and is dressed to look roughly (very roughly) like a Kiev, with sewer-pipe missile tubes on the foredeck and GR.9s painted to look like "Movie-Forgers" i.e. black ('cos they're bad guys) and with BIG red stars (so the audience know exactly who's who)....


Edited Kirov to Kiev 23dec08 'cos I'm dumb.........

[Sauragnmon]

That would be somewhat amusing, seeing Illustrious done up as Kiev with the big sewer pipe missile tubes and the black harriers with their big red stars.

[retro_seventies]

Sovietize it is my FAVOURITE!


Sovietized Tunnan?



Sovietized Jaguar/Flogger...Flogular?



Sovietized Venom?
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/2843/vampfagotit6.png


Sovietized Skyraider?

[ysi_maniac]

^^^^^  WOW

[PR19_Kit]

Daryl,

Funny you say the Beagle.  That's what I had in mind as a target point for the big Airfix kit, but engineered by Tupolev.    Glass nose, framed, and smooth, contraprops (multiple row due to short blade length), stretched, rewinged on the portion outside the engine nacelles, etc.

There was a Tupolev 'Beagle', except it was called a 'Bosun'. The Tu-14 was a 'Beagle' competitor, but only 200 or so were built. Sadly it didn't have your contraprops fitted, it might have been a lot less boring than it actually was.

Hm, now there's an idea, a smaller, twin engined 'Bear'...........?

[Weaver]

Hm, now there's an idea, a smaller, twin engined 'Bear'...........?

Or put it another way, a turboprop Badger........