Well, well...
According to this pictures type 10 were delivered fist:
Konstantin I think I allways present 70 code as very very questionnable, and I never trust in profils.
as you know , there is a big lake of russian I-16 picture.
The only one who is said to show russian squadron is this one (type 5)
Maslov, in his paper about the chinese I-16 in Air magazine n?4, explains that chinese I-16 use to were 4 numbers code, the first two were the squadron number (chungtui) and the last two the plane number.
the Soviets squadron always according to Maslov only were two number code.
As you know, I built two I-16 at the same time: a type 5 and a type10.
here is the type 5 I will present you when the diorama will be ended:
My principal intention was to show the peint evolution between 1937 and 1939 (AIIz aparition etc...)
second, I found interesting show two soviet implications in war between the patriotic war.
I did yet an I-15bis in kalkhin gol war, so I wanted to explored the first part of Japanese and Chinese war.
I wanted to represent a russian piot to talk about Staline different attitude before Barbarossa.
(I'm quite sure that in occident we don't discern the importance of the danger represented by Japan for Stalin; it explains, in my opinion, a lot of thinks about Stalin attitude toward Hitler in 1939...
So I knew, and I said the decoration was not sure at all; but honestly, it represents, my opinion, how could look like a russian I-16 in Chine between 1938 and 1939...
Konstantin I open this topic in May, I find it's quite a pity that you give me your opinion, just now, when the work is ended, we could have think together another way to represent a russian pilot in China...
Thanks to all for your messages!
Xan