Smeth....Soviet TB-3

SJPONeill · Post by **SJPONeill** » March 14th, 2012, 7:30 am

Fight it all the way to the end...!!

SJPONeill · Post by **SJPONeill** » March 14th, 2012, 8:40 am

The ICM ILya Murometz is a fairly conventional design - very delicate struts from memory - but their TB-3 is in a design class all its own...there's actually no design/tooling reason that the TB-3 wing could not have been produced in the conventional upper/lower halves method a la various Ju-52, Forc Trimotor and other heavily corrugated models...

smethwick · Post by **smethwick** » March 18th, 2012, 6:08 pm

pushing it out today...just the engines and a bit of filling to do, just to tidy the beast up...

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SJPONeill · Post by **SJPONeill** » March 18th, 2012, 7:45 pm

Wow! That's come a long way since your last pics...if we take the end of the GB from the time that the sun sets on the last part of the Empire (would that be Hawaii?) you should have time for the final bits'n'bobs...

This is by no means a conventional design as you have shown us and so I think you have done bloody well considering the kit's reputation for making nervous wrecks on unwary builders...

smethwick · Post by **smethwick** » March 18th, 2012, 8:40 pm

all four engines are on now...pretty much done...will post pic...when i get home from work tomorrow , ish

Post by **JamesPerrin** » March 18th, 2012, 11:12 pm

Such a big a/c such small pictures! Looks like a lot of work has gone on over the last fortnight. Look forward to seeing the final model..

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