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Modelsvit: Tu-22KD "Shilo" (Blinder)
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Posted: Monday, November 09, 2015 - 02:21 PM UTC


HobbyTerra have sent us details of a new 1:72 kit from Modelsvit - the Tupolev Tu-22KD "Shilo" (Blinder) medium bomber. Included in the report are shots of the parts.

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Jessie_C
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 02:24 AM UTC
Bad news for anyone still hoarding the old AMT/Italeri kit...
acktwice
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Massachusetts, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 04:58 AM UTC
I think the Russian designers have it all over the west when it comes to sleek looking machines. {except for the SR-71] I'm looking forward to this kit.
heavyjagdpanzer
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Georgia, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 10:02 PM UTC
The Russians could build some good looking airplanes!
gconterio
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Posted: Friday, November 13, 2015 - 04:53 AM UTC
That would be me. I don't think I will be too sad to see the old ESCI kit go though. I had actually begun a bit of work on it before shelving it a few years ago. It's a terribly flawed kit, although for the time, and based on the sketchy info available in the west on the Tu-22, I suppose it was not bad.
Several of it's many flaws were nearly impossible to fix without serious scratch-building. If the Modelsvit kit scales out at all well, I will happily bin the old ESCI one.
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