i really do enjoy your reviews, i like the story behind it all then the kit. thanks for sharing and keep them coming. maybe a ship next time - never seen you do a ship review.
Peter, does it make any mention of nose weight required? Didn't see it on the instructions, but that set of engines in the rear would seem to make it necessary...just a thought. Dane
I have the ModelSvit Mirage 4000 1/72 from a few years ago. It is excellent with very fine recessed lines, a lot of detail, etch, mask and decals for two very different schemes. It seems a lot better than this and was only £35. They also do a Mirage IV (and some other gorgeous Mirages) which I have read is based on the Heller kit, but vastly upgraded and with the raised panel lines now recessed.
Great review. Even though, it's a 7/10, it still seems an attractive plane. I didn't quite catch whether there was a pilot included? (Don't get me started Airfix!). What is often the case with many of these models, is parts for parts sake. Why have one part when four glued together parts is better? Often not.
Nice one Peter, another very entertaining post. It is listed as a limited edition so maybe not to bad for a short run kit. Not cheap tho, over £50! I saw the documentary too on Paper skies, Supersonic booze carrier 😄 Some of the B-52 ejector seats went downwards as well as early F-104’s, I think the reason here was there was a danger of the pilot being sucked into the tail mounted engines 😬
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab May not have been available when the aircraft was being designed. It wasn't only the early F-104s that had downward firing seats. The main issue was that early generation seats were not always powerful enough to throw the crew member clear of the structure - especially at higher air speeds. From what I've seen the Russians referred to the Tu-22 as The Vodka Bomber. The later Tu-22M Backfire is a completely different design. It was given a Tu-22 designation by Tupolev to fool the Politburo into thinking they were funding a development of the originalTu-22. I think the Tu-22M is also referred to as the Tu-26. Esci also did a Tu-22 which these days appears in Italeri boxings. Is this kit related to the Esci/Italeri kit?
i was close to buy this edition, but ended up geting the Trumpeter :) and today i bought the Tu-22M3 Backfire...it was also known as Tu.26 and it really had nothing to do with the old Tu-22
It sounds like the plane was a lemon, and the kit’s no better. It makes Revell quality seem like Wingnut wings. Good review. Peter Though I think you were far too kind to Model Svit. If I was going to build this plane, then I’d probably choose the Trumpeter version.
Hi Neil, thanks for the comment...Right at the end of the live chat someone accused me of being too harsh on them & that it was a great kit, but I just don't see it...So I probably got it about right really. 😆
It's always funny to hear another hoax about Soviet/Russian stuff. This one here is about alcohol in the air conditioning unit of Tu-22. Indeed, it was there and in a huge quantity. However, no one drank it in the field and during the flight or mission. It's hilarious to think like that. Those machines were extremely hard to control even for a concentrated skilled pilot. The field staff like technicians were the same. Did they use that alcohol? Yes, they did. But like I said not during the missions and routine work.
Nice to know another company besides ESCI has done a TU-22 Blinder in 1/72. The company does make some interesting kits.
Wish they would do this in 48th. Have the XP 55 Ascender and looks like a fantastic kit. Looking forward to more from Modelsvit.
i really do enjoy your reviews, i like the story behind it all then the kit. thanks for sharing and keep them coming. maybe a ship next time - never seen you do a ship review.
Peter, does it make any mention of nose weight required? Didn't see it on the instructions, but that set of engines in the rear would seem to make it necessary...just a thought. Dane
I have the ModelSvit Mirage 4000 1/72 from a few years ago. It is excellent with very fine recessed lines, a lot of detail, etch, mask and decals for two very different schemes. It seems a lot better than this and was only £35.
They also do a Mirage IV (and some other gorgeous Mirages) which I have read is based on the Heller kit, but vastly upgraded and with the raised panel lines now recessed.
Yes, I get the feel that the Mirage III / 2000 is a better kit.
Great review. Even though, it's a 7/10, it still seems an attractive plane. I didn't quite catch whether there was a pilot included? (Don't get me started Airfix!). What is often the case with many of these models, is parts for parts sake. Why have one part when four glued together parts is better? Often not.
No pilot, I am afraid...agree about too-high part count.
Nice one Peter, another very entertaining post. It is listed as a limited edition so maybe not to bad for a short run kit. Not cheap tho, over £50!
I saw the documentary too on Paper skies, Supersonic booze carrier 😄 Some of the B-52 ejector seats went downwards as well as early F-104’s, I think the reason here was there was a danger of the pilot being sucked into the tail mounted engines 😬
Thanks. Wow! ...surely just doing more powerful ejector seat motors would solve that? The downward-firing ejectors sound like a death-sentence! 😱
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab May not have been available when the aircraft was being designed. It wasn't only the early F-104s that had downward firing seats. The main issue was that early generation seats were not always powerful enough to throw the crew member clear of the structure - especially at higher air speeds.
From what I've seen the Russians referred to the Tu-22 as The Vodka Bomber.
The later Tu-22M Backfire is a completely different design. It was given a Tu-22 designation by Tupolev to fool the Politburo into thinking they were funding a development of the originalTu-22. I think the Tu-22M is also referred to as the Tu-26.
Esci also did a Tu-22 which these days appears in Italeri boxings. Is this kit related to the Esci/Italeri kit?
@@EricIrl No this is a much more recent tooling.
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab Thanks - I was just musing. I have the Italeri version in the stash.
i was close to buy this edition, but ended up geting the Trumpeter :) and today i bought the Tu-22M3 Backfire...it was also known as Tu.26 and it really had nothing to do with the old Tu-22
This company make some really intetesting types but sadly only in 1/72 l believe.
Excelente revisión 👌
It sounds like the plane was a lemon, and the kit’s no better.
It makes Revell quality seem like Wingnut wings.
Good review. Peter
Though I think you were far too kind to Model Svit.
If I was going to build this plane, then I’d probably choose the Trumpeter version.
Hi Neil, thanks for the comment...Right at the end of the live chat someone accused me of being too harsh on them & that it was a great kit, but I just don't see it...So I probably got it about right really. 😆
Wish they would do a TU 92 Bear bomber in this scale that garbage trumpeter model is horrible
It's always funny to hear another hoax about Soviet/Russian stuff. This one here is about alcohol in the air conditioning unit of Tu-22. Indeed, it was there and in a huge quantity. However, no one drank it in the field and during the flight or mission. It's hilarious to think like that. Those machines were extremely hard to control even for a concentrated skilled pilot. The field staff like technicians were the same. Did they use that alcohol? Yes, they did. But like I said not during the missions and routine work.