TSR-2 Profiles

[PR19_Kit]

Piero,

Strewth, that's good! Presumably the 1/48 Airfix kit?

The panel work and paint job are so darn good you tend to overlook the 'added extras' like the LERX and the RWR too. And is that a large cannon pack mounted in the bomb bay?

And that's SOME set of teeth! 

[GTX]

Whoa - what an entrance!!!  How about posting a separate build thread?

Regards,

Greg

[NARSES2]

What the gentlemen have said - tremendous stuff 

[gunfighter]

errrrr... how´s that possible?   

[lenny100]

have you got a real aircraft down in the Cellar?
WOW

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Hey Piero.... nice to see you (and your model) here too 

Ian
(from Britmodeller too)

[Talos]

During Red Flag exercises with the United States Air Force, several Luftwaffe Eagles of JaboG  31 "Boelcke" were painted in an experimental desert camouflage scheme. It proved decently successful, but the paint was difficult to maintain and began peeling off after only a few flying hours. Eventually, it was settled on a low-vis gray scheme for desert theaters.

[Talos]

Here are two variations of the same markings on an overall-gray JASDF TSR-2. The first one is the original tail markings, taken from a WWII Hien, but I didn't like how it fit, so I adjusted the shape to fit the TSR's tail and also rearranged the stripe and lightning bolt on the fuselage.

[lenny100]

Personally i like the second one better it looks cleaner

[Talos]

So do I, lenny. That's why I went back and redid it to make the second version, because I wasn't satisfied with the first. I can't help but redo and redo constantly until I get what I like.

[Talos]

In the late 1970s, a Royal Air Force Eagle GR1 was performing a routine reconnaissance mission over Germany when it was shot down by a surface-to-air missile and crash landed in Kaliningrad, Russia, while the pilot attempted to ditch it into the North Sea. The plane landed nearly intact at Chernyakhovsk and the crew was taken into Soviet custody, only to be released nearly 18 months later in a diplomatic exchange. The wreckage was repaired and transported by train to Ramenskoye where TsAGI disassembled and copied in the aircraft just as had been done before to the B-29 Superfortress, to fill a light, fast nuclear strike and recon aircraft requirement. The aircraft, first dubbed "Ram-S" when discovered by the west, entered service as the Tupolev Tu-30P, the initial recon model. NATO assigned it the reporting name "Fletcher". Several hundred of the initial model were built with Tu-30U trainer (with stepped cockpits), Tu-30M (extensively upgraded airframe, engines, and avionics), and Tu-30PDM (penultimate recon version) increasing that number significantly. At the fall of the Soviet Union, they were still serving in the Soviet Air Force, as well as the Air Forces of most of their allies. The Soviet examples were distributed among all the former Soviet countries when the Air Force was divided. Due to the SALT-II treaty, however, all the nuclear strike Fletcher-A's were converted into Tu-30TP photo-recon craft or assigned to demilitarized roles such as this example, 07 Red, assigned as a chase plane for Roskosmos' operations at Baikonur Cosmodrome and named after Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.

[lenny100]

now thats nice and a good back story as well

[Talos]

Thanks! I had a lot of fun with this one. It's what happens when I read Red Star's Tu-160 book cover-to-cover in one sitting. XD 

[Talos]

Finally finished this request, which has been sitting half-done for awhile on my computer. I'm going to go back and redo the markings on the nose and make them closer to the original German. The anchor was drawn from scratch from really blurry sources, but I think it came out well.

[Taiidantomcat]

Thanks for taking the time, they are great profiles!