Heres my latest build, the 1/72 ESCI Tupolev Tu22M2 'Backfire'. I picked this monster up at cosford 2 years ago for £15 and have finally got round to doing it. Its a bit of a beast, being a very large aircraft , so the model is about 2 foot long, and ive still no idea where im going to put it!! Its not a bad kit ,having recessed panel lines, but at the time it was produced details of the aircraft were very limited so there are a few areas to alter/improve- the cockpit hatches need rescribing and the undercarriage doors need to be cut down a bit. I tried pre shading again and i think it worked ,at least on the uppersurfaces, which i sprayed with vallejo game colour wolf grey.The KH 22 anti ship missile is huge! ive taken a shot next to a macchi mc202 folgore of the same scale to show the size of it! Heres a link to a fantastic low pass of a later tu22m3 version by some crazy russian pilot, its just such an impressive beast !
anyway here are the pics- i struggled to get decent pics cause of the size of it and had to improvise with a bedsheet for the background, some were with flash and some without, have a gander ,comments criticisms welcome (and any tips for my photography!!) spasibo! tonyView attachment 41002
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