Updates to the SB page: new profiles of Tapani

[Massimo Tessitori]

Hi all,
I've prepared and linked from the SB page http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/sb/sb.htm some new pages with profiles of Tapani Tuomanen:

Finnish AF:
http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/sb/tapani/finnish/finnish-story.htm
http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/sb/tapani/finnish/finnish-painting.htm
http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/sb/tapani/finnish/finnish-number.htm

Soviets in winter war:

http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/sb/tapani/winterwar/winterwar.htm


Some samples:









Regards
Massimo

[Massimo Tessitori]

Since all the time there is new information, it is necessary to add something to the decals. So it was with the set 72008 SB-2 SB-2 M-100 / M-103 for the model ICM. After its release there were pictures showing that the plane left in Borisov with the number 5 has a red fringing of the number and identification stripes on the wings, so another sheet with these designations was added.And they can always be taken from me if you have an early set.

Hi Igor,
this plane, you mean?

Regards
Massimo

Hi Massimo,  

yes, this one

I saw the light area in the first photo, but I thought it was some cover. But now I see it on the other wing too, and I see that ends exactly as if it was painted.
What a strange place for a recognition emblem, a white band just behind the exhaust pipes! And how could it go under the wings, just where the nacelle is? Maybe the nacelle itself was white? Or, maybe, it was moved outwards on the lower surface?
Regards
Massimo

[AC26]

Hi all,

Maybe worth to note that this one had 2-blade propellers.

Cheers,

AaCee

[Massimo Tessitori]

Hi,
yes, that was rare in 1941.

Here is the profile, it has to be updated with the outline on the number, while the bands over the wings aren't visible in this view, but one should say something about them all the same.

I would understand better if the bands were visible from below in any way.

Regards
Massimo

[Massimo Tessitori]

Hi All,
I've uploaded the pages about Soviet SB during Barbarossa with the drawings of Tapani.
All the sub-pages are linked both from here:
http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/sb/tapani/barbarossa/barbarossa.htm
and here:
http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/sb/sb.htm.

Some samples:














Regards
Massimo

[Massimo Tessitori]

Hi,
I've uploaded a new page on B.71 in Czechoslovak and Slovak service:

http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/sb/tapani/b-71/czech%2Bslovak/czech%2Bslovak.htm
Some samples:






Please, let me know your impressions.
 
Regards
Massimo

[Massimo Tessitori]

Hi,
a small page on SB in Soviet Far East during the late '30s:
http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/sb/tapani/nomothan/nomothan.htm

and a pair of samples:





Note that the light grey in use around 1937-38 was matt , and created a patchy and non uniform surface. Nothing to do with the AE-9 of 1939-40.

Regards
Massimo

[Massimo Tessitori]

Hi,
I've uploaded a page on SB in Chinese service with profiles of Tapani.
http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/sb/tapani/chinese/chinese.htm
Some samples:





Regards
Massimo