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Sauragnmon

July 15, 2009, 05:34:56 PM
I figured it might be a neat, and handy, place to keep a thread for images of Chinese paint patterns... kinda like the One Stop Soviet Shop.  A few I've found love for:















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Fulcrum

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July 15, 2009, 07:14:39 PM
Wow,  :o I didn't know the Chinese PLAAF was testing a AWACS version of the Tu-4/B-29 !
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frank2056

#2
July 15, 2009, 07:38:31 PM
Quote from: Fulcrum on July 15, 2009, 07:14:39 PM
Wow,  :o I didn't know the Chinese PLAAF was testing a AWACS version of the Tu-4/B-29 !

With turbo-props! Now that is cool. Get rid of the radar, add a t-tail and I'd throw a few bucks at it at a strip joint...

The Rat

#3
July 15, 2009, 07:41:14 PM
Quote from: Fulcrum on July 15, 2009, 07:14:39 PM
Wow,  :o I didn't know the Chinese PLAAF was testing a AWACS version of the Tu-4/B-29 !

That saucer looks unaerodynamic enough to put Vmc about 10 kts above Vstall!  ;D
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Sauragnmon

#4
July 16, 2009, 12:11:23 AM
Yeah, I just kinda stumbled over that, and posted it - in hindsight, I didn't see the turboprops on the wings, which makes it like... double cool.  The poor aerodynamics are probably why she's sitting on a strip of dirt in the middle of somewhere in China.

I figured it would be a great place for some new images - I find that Blue on White camo pretty interesting - it could just be faded though.
Putty-fu, Scratch-jutsu and Bash-chi, the sacred martial arts of the What-If. Mastering them, is Ancient Chinese Secret.

Just your friendly neighbourhood Mad Scientist and Ship-whiffer.

Overkill? Nah, it's Insurance.  So are the 20" guns.

GTX

#5
July 16, 2009, 12:38:47 AM
Quote from: Fulcrum on July 15, 2009, 07:14:39 PM
Wow,  :o I didn't know the Chinese PLAAF was testing a AWACS version of the Tu-4/B-29 !

It gets better - Cutting Edge released a conversion kit for it a while ago (see here)

Regards,

Greg

PS. I like the 2 tone green A-5.
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Bungle

#6
July 16, 2009, 01:58:21 AM

Airmodel produce a 1/72 kit of the TU-4 Bull some years ago. It included an Academy B-29 (the tanker version if I recall) and resin turbo props plus a vacuformed dome. Had decals for Soviet or Chinese aircraft. I picked one up on a business trip to Hamburg - probably cost me about 50 Euros. in 2003/2004 or even 2005 (memory blurs). Unfortunately I later made a radical desicion to trim my collection and get rid of anything with a big wingspan as I have no space to display completed masterpieces or the usual dross.

If I recall correctly I sold it to a guy in Brazil via evilBay for over a 100 GBP ! Sorry about the image it is from the thumbnail of my collection database.



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Sauragnmon

#7
July 16, 2009, 09:11:39 AM
I was browsing randomly before bed, and THIS kicked me in the face - I HAD to share it, and I like... HAVE to find something to put in this pattern.



Alternately, if I could find a 1/144 model of the H-6 based Tanker... I could somehow rework that into the H-6K - take a good look at the Engines, they're the same - I think the cockpit glass is the same revised upper glass too.  The nose would have to be modified for the new radar suite, but I Think, aside from that and removing the drogue mounts off the wings, she'd be gravy in the bowl.

Other neat images in a little browsing:





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Just your friendly neighbourhood Mad Scientist and Ship-whiffer.

Overkill? Nah, it's Insurance.  So are the 20" guns.

JayBee

#8
July 16, 2009, 09:57:14 AM
Quote from: Sauragnmon on July 16, 2009, 12:11:23 AM
The poor aerodynamics are probably why she's sitting on a strip of dirt in the middle of somewhere in China.


Not just a dirt road somewhere in China, but in the Chinese air force museum in Beijing.
If you have Google Earth, go to Beijing/Shahezhen airport. From the eastern end of the runway there is a long straight taxiway running NE for, it looks like, a couple of miles. At the end of it is the museum.

You could also try theses co-ordinates:

40  10'59.75N    116  21'30.71E

JimB
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Aircav

#9
July 16, 2009, 10:03:53 AM
Quote from: Bungle on July 16, 2009, 01:58:21 AM

Airmodel produce a 1/72 kit of the TU-4 Bull some years ago. It included an Academy B-29 (the tanker version if I recall) and resin turbo props plus a vacuformed dome. Had decals for Soviet or Chinese aircraft. I picked one up on a business trip to Hamburg - probably cost me about 50 Euros. in 2003/2004 or even 2005 (memory blurs). Unfortunately I later made a radical desicion to trim my collection and get rid of anything with a big wingspan as I have no space to display completed masterpieces or the usual dross.

If I recall correctly I sold it to a guy in Brazil via evilBay for over a 100 GBP ! Sorry about the image it is from the thumbnail of my collection database.


I've got the 1/48 Cutting Edge conversion for the TU-4 AWACS, must get round to building it one day  ;D
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Geoff

#10
July 16, 2009, 10:33:04 AM
Excelent idea for a thread!

Jschmus

#11
July 16, 2009, 10:51:09 AM
Quote from: Sauragnmon on July 15, 2009, 05:34:56 PM

These "Fantan" attack fighters appear to be sitting on the deck of a ship.  Is this the former Varyag?  I read that it was towed to China to become a hotel, or a museum, or something.  The article on Wikipedia mentions that the Chinese may be refitting the ship to serve as a training carrier.
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Sauragnmon

#12
July 16, 2009, 11:00:54 AM
Actually, JS, that's the Minsk, or so a caption on one of the shots of that aircraft suggested.  At current, I'm just kinda scouring over airliners.net - as you guys can figure out.  A few more cool ones I found:





I don't quite know what that one was supposed to blend into, but still, it looks pretty damn wild.
Putty-fu, Scratch-jutsu and Bash-chi, the sacred martial arts of the What-If. Mastering them, is Ancient Chinese Secret.

Just your friendly neighbourhood Mad Scientist and Ship-whiffer.

Overkill? Nah, it's Insurance.  So are the 20" guns.

Geoff

#13
July 16, 2009, 11:02:29 AM
A couple more

Geoff

#14
July 16, 2009, 11:05:18 AM
 ;D
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