TU-4T "Bolshoi" Jet Powered Soviet Bomber

[Tophe]

A fully fuelled Tu-4T, taking off from Moscow, could only reach Kiev before requiring refuelling. Needless to say, the plane wasn't put into production, with only three prototypes being built.
Alvis Pi

Dear Alvis 355/113, this model is great! while... may I show you the scheduled solution (zwilling variant) to the range issue?

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice one Alvis.
Where to the main wheels retract to?

That's what I wondered, too? There seems to be a landing gear, but the perspective does not allow a glimpse... a narrow tricycle arrangement, à la A3D/B-66?

[kitnut617]

Nice one Alvis.
Where to the main wheels retract to?

That's what I wondered, too? There seems to be a landing gear, but the perspective does not allow a glimpse... a narrow tricycle arrangement, à la A3D/B-66?

It looks like B-36 style (from where the shadows are)

[Captain Canada]

Looks like she could handle rough fields as well.

[Alvis 3.14159]

Holy flashback batman!
I honestly have forgotten what I did to accomodate the landing gear. I will have to go dig this out and post the results. Given the lack of underside photos, I may have taken the lazy way out and not dealt with it at all, but that's not normally what I do. I like to try to engineer believable workabilities to my totally confabulated designs.

Alvis Pi

[McColm]

That's my fault. I was looking for the B-29 artwork when I stumbled across your model and thought wow how did I miss this?
Probably hadn't joined this site back then, even so you deserved another fan of your work.
There must be hundreds of topics or models that I haven't discovered yet.

[KiwiZac]

What The Rat said! Lovely job, Alvis!

[tc2324]

This build inspired me to have a crack at my own B-29 Soviet Jet bomber sometime back in my 1/72 scale days.



We really should set up a `nostalgia thread` where old builds can be resurrected... 

[McColm]

Good idea. Great build.

[NARSES2]

We really should set up a `nostalgia thread` where old builds can be resurrected... 

Happens behind the stand at most shows 

[Captain Canada]

Oooh that is nice ! Looks so good like that. The shape just seems right.

[Jesse220]

If they did made a jet TU-4 bomber. The Chinese would halved copied it and used it as an electronic warfare

[McColm]

Maybe that's how the Tu-16 Badger evolved.

[Alvis 3.14159]

This build inspired me to have a crack at my own B-29 Soviet Jet bomber sometime back in my 1/72 scale days.



We really should set up a `nostalgia thread` where old builds can be resurrected... 

I really really really like that Badger/Boeing Bomber!

Alvis 3.14159

[zenrat]

A Badoing?