Shipbucket

Cplnew83 lad you only need to read this and everything will be fine.
http://www.shipbucket.com/forums/viewto ... ?f=5&t=402

Psilander pretty nice work, not in FD style but in unique Psilander style but still nicework.

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Nobody expects the Imperial Inquisition!

Thanks a bunch, the picture looks way better.

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Worklist, FD scale submarines and ships :
- Project 971 "Akula" (80%)
- Project 705 "Alpha" (10%)
- Project 371 (70%)
- Project 1459 (30%)
- Projekt 151 Sassnitz (To be redone)

Nice work, guys! Love the helis, DP. And Psilander's jet seaplane looks quite cool too Any plans on doing it in regular FD style? Pretty awesome. Is that a gun in the tail? How come, it seems to be a civilian livery?

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Worklist: Portuguese Navy and Barnegat class seaplane tenders

Yes, it is a military cargo plane (the registration is real) which was in Aeroflot scheme, a common method in the USSR to cancel VTA aircraft. The tail turret is equiped with a 23mm dual gun.

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Je pardonne à tous ceux qui m'ont offensé... mais je garde la liste!


Worklist, FD scale submarines and ships :
- Project 971 "Akula" (80%)
- Project 705 "Alpha" (10%)
- Project 371 (70%)
- Project 1459 (30%)
- Projekt 151 Sassnitz (To be redone)

Nice. Not an expert on Russian cargo-planes, but looks okay to me

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Morten812

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Cplnew83 maybe you will try my personal favourite Antonov An-12.

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Nobody expects the Imperial Inquisition!

To add to that, most of the post war soviet airliners were designed with placement for a tail gun so that if the Cold War turned hot, the civilian aircraft could be rapidly converted into additional military transport and in some of them bombers.

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"The first rule is not to lose; The second rule is not to forget the first rule"

But why a tailgun? It seems like such a WW2 thing...

Most bombers continued to have tail guns until the 1960s and in a few case even until the 1970s. Before effective counter measures were developed and accurate guided missiles, air combat was still considered to be a close combat, gun vs gun affair. The Vought Crusader was the last of the gun fighters. It was only with good missiles that the gun was abandoned temporarily (early F-4s had no guns which many crews complained about).

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"The first rule is not to lose; The second rule is not to forget the first rule"

Who wouldn't? There's nothing to fall back on when you run out of missiles.

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