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There are a few built ones. I am hoping to do an M-34 version with my remaining one.
http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/ModelGallery/tup_tb3.php

I think the profile for that one is basically correct and it is in OD/NG.

How about this:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YItNa3tjSQA/Xj0sV6rZ8cI/AAAAAAAA7fE/g4ZQhu6pYSYCN3-Dpvi3nk84viuZiJhBACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/90857d1e7a1b64aa33627d81822dd603.jpg

I found a bunch of VVS P-47 images by Googling:
P-47 VVS 255IAD

John

Is this real or a flight of Quinta fancy. I have seen a profile somewhere of this, purporting to be 255 IAD  but no photos to back it up.

Dear friends,
   Thanks to Massimo courtesy, you can access a new pdf from Prof. Rodionov about the Il-2 bis prototype.
   It has a canopy that is completely different from the production two seaters, and it has a quite interesting story.
   It also has a peculiar wing configuration with wooden outer wings, but with metal panels above the weapons, and as long as I know, it is the first time that it is illustrated with scale drawings.
   I thought that such a combination was rare, but I learned from prof. Rodionov that it was used by zavod 1 during the whole period of Il-2 production both for normal and arrow type wings until the middle of 1944.
   The Il-2 Bis was made in 1942, and the wreck that has been recovered from Lake Balaton was produced in 1944.
   From middle 1944 zavod 1 produced all-metal arrow type wings, like the airplane in the Aeronautical Museum Belgrade.
    Moreover he has seen the wing console of zavod 1 type among the set of plant drawings of zavod 30.
   It means zavod 30 also used it though we could not say when and how much, because Zavod 30 from the very beginning in 1942 produced full-wood wing consoles including those for the Il-2 with NS-37 canons and arrow-type wings.
   It too from the middle of 1944 produced all-metal arrow-type wings like the plane in the Prague museum.
    Therefore, these 37 much-illustrated pages have a relevance not only for this prototype, and I hope that you will enjoy them.
Regards
Daniele

MiG-3 captured by the Germans at the Zhitomir airfield. July 1941 Found over at Reddit

An early Ishak, found over at Reddit

Nice shot of Antonov A-7, found over at Reddit

Very good work, my compliments as usual.
Massimo

Happy New Year to you also! Nice photographs of the Soviet DH.9A/R-1!

Regards,

Jason