Title: Interesting photos of aircraft restoration at Monino and elsewhere Post by: Tyronesdaddy on August 15, 2014, 06:07:53 PM http://englishrussia.com/2014/08/13/volunteer-restoration-for-old-planes/#more-150706
http://englishrussia.com/2014/08/12/new-life-for-old-planes/#more-150686 Title: Re: Interesting photos of aircraft restoration at Monino and elsewhere Post by: learstang on August 15, 2014, 06:37:34 PM Always great to see restoration work on old aeroplanes, especially Soviet ones - thank you for posting!
Best Regards, Jason Title: Re: Interesting photos of aircraft restoration at Monino and elsewhere Post by: Massimo Tessitori on August 15, 2014, 10:00:26 PM Hi,
certainly better that to leave them in those conditions, but isn't there anyone more knowledgeable on colors with them? I suppose that such photos of the restorations will enrich the work of EP, for example to demonstrate the existance of the camo with AII dark brown. Regards Massimo Title: Re: Interesting photos of aircraft restoration at Monino and elsewhere Post by: Troy Smith on August 15, 2014, 11:04:49 PM Hi Massimo
well, funny you should mention mr Pilawskii, as being "the expert on Soviet colours" he gets used to advise on restorations and the correct colours, re the Il-2 and Pe-2 in Norway perhaps has been consulted by/ or offered his services to Monino, he has this one his site, Warbird Colour Services http://redbanner.co.uk/WCS/wcs.html KL made a post on this here, in English. http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_p_215985.html#215985 (http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm13/klesnikov/ARC%20forum/AeroplaneEPclip.jpg) Maybe why the Norwegian Il-2 is brown/green? (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Ilyushin_at_S%C3%B8r-Varanger_museum.JPG/1024px-Ilyushin_at_S%C3%B8r-Varanger_museum.JPG) the Monino one maybe the pattern though... (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Ilyushin_IL-2_Sturmovik%2C_Central_Air_Force_Museum%2C_Monino.JPG/800px-Ilyushin_IL-2_Sturmovik%2C_Central_Air_Force_Museum%2C_Monino.JPG) but there is hope ;) here the airworthy one in the US! (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Ila.jpg/800px-Ila.jpg) And today I saw two Lancaster's flying together! Which was very odd, I have seen A Lancaster flying often but two at first was like having bizzare double vision...and a bit unreal. (http://i.imgur.com/3k64i4U.png) see what I mean? Very strange sensation at first...sorry, off topic but hopefully will amuse some members? there is a video clip here if you scroll down. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234965686-2-lancasters-in-the-air-now-bbc-news-update/page-2 Title: Re: Interesting photos of aircraft restoration at Monino and elsewhere Post by: Massimo Tessitori on August 17, 2014, 09:52:48 AM Hi Troy,
In the case of Monino, I was only joking. In other cases, the contribute of EP is real. I think that many restorations include brown/green camo because it was reported this way on many old books, including the cover of the Russian edition of a book of Rastrenin. The black-green flying Il-2 is not a good choice: although based on more recent knowledges, one should say that the black-green camo was discontinued in July 1943, while the arrow-wing Il-2s were put into production around December 1943, and never had that camo. The couple of Lancaster is great. I'll build one some day (a bit smaller, I mean). Regards Massimo |