help wanted - my russian isn't all that good...

The rough translation of boxart text is: Il-4 bomber, if I'm not mistaken. Anyway, on the instruction sheet, the more detailed version is given, Il-4R.

Cheers,

Bostjan

According to my Kennth Munson Bombers book, its an Ilyushin Il-4 (DB-3F) and they were used by the Soviet Naval Aviation. Munson's plate shows it as a torpedo bomber. HTH.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Hi - its an Ilyushin IL4, contemporary with the same builders Sturmovik IL2 You can find drawings for it at:

Hope this helps Chek

As noted it's an Il-4.

Directions have usual "Please pay attention to the follow..." disclaimers followed by "order of assembly" directions.

As for colors, top to bottom they read:

Light Blue Dark Khaki Black Red

Good luck!

Cookie Sewell

The Cyrillic writing on the box says 'Bombardirovschik' - Russian for bomber.

The model is an Ilyushin Il-4 - developed from the same OKB's DB-3. A very successful Soviet WWII bomber.

The colours in the instruction sheet are :- Light blue, dark green, black & red.

There is a restored Il-4 at Victory Park, Moscow, my pics are at :-

scroll down to 'Victory Park' to see them

There is a photo of the predecessor DB-3 towards the bottom of the page at :-

A search around the excellent VVS website at ;- will probably find a build article on the Il-4 kit - I haven't checked.

Have fun !!

Ken

That is probably the Revell Ilyushin 4. IIRC it was an effort between Revell AG and Eastern Berlin molders. It probably has a 4 part (split longitudinally) fuselage. Lovely aircraft, the kit is decent although I've heard the fuselage assembly has some caveats. I may have the English instructions and could send you a copy. Where are you on our little blue marble? hth

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

I think Zvezda makes an IM one too. Victoria Products made a vacuform kit with optional parts for the DB-3 with a turret in the nose. The Revell AG one had parts moulded in white, black and clear. I have one here half-built (natch). I got the wings together and then got distracted. :(

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Have you seen the Zveda? I'm of the opinion it's the same mold; the Russians are known for passing the molds around the collective. Gives everyone a chance for earnings.

I had the Victoria kit, nicely done. I wanted to do the DB-3 after I bought the Ilyushin (man, I wish this font had a better capital "I".) I figured I've got enough vacs to do and sold it. I'm still procrastinating on Airmodel's Gotha

242. Anyone got the leftover decals from the Italeri kit? tia,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

"Nemesis" ???????/???????? ? ???????? ?????????: news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

This is IL-4 from Alfa, long gone Russian producer. Later these molds were bought by Zvezda and elaborated a little. Don't know much about being IL-4R (recon plane) but if there are bombs then it is IL-4, if there is a torpedo then IL-4T. Paint it as usual for Russian planes: top - Russian Green, bottom - Russian Blue Grey from your preferred manufacturer. The propeller blades are black, the interior is light grey. Good luck!

Damir Islamov

I guess that means it has no relationship with Revell AG's/Mastercraft's kit then.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Let's post some shots of the sprues and see how close they are. Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

Okay, here we go:

This is the 1991 Revell AG release of the Iljuschin Il-4 (and I still wish this font had a decent capital "eye.") Markings for three aircraft including a torpedo bomber. If someone could please post a shot of the Zveda sprues that would be slick.

Adding to another post, this is posted on my ISP's File Transfer Protocol. It gives one 20 mil bytes to post binaries. Does everyone else have a similar utility? tia,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

Wow, hieroglyphics. That is an old kit! Seriously, what caused me to only see code?

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Something in your OS or browser prevented it from deciphering it properly because I didn't put the jpeg suffix on it. I can see it from some machines but not others. Try this:

Lemme know,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

hey keeper, get the mo?

One more try:

http:members.aol.com/crapologist/yushin.jpg Doh!

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

Yep, you should be receiving next week. Tanks,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

planes.

Now I get the Netscape equivalent of the 'red X'. :(

Bill Banaszak, MFE