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Robert Podkoński
Cool! (and I love Blackadder series!)

Villiers de Vos
Off to a nice start.

Rui S
Great work 👍

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work and weathering.

Guy Rump
Great job! 👍

Olivier
Nice end result. Pity one does not see much of the engine.

Andrew Gledhill
Thanks Olivier. Yes, a good few parts make up the engine, and you can barely see the top of it through the hatches. You can hardly see the inside the main hull too.

Neuling
Very good. I like the camouflage paintwork and the moderate weathering.

Andrew Gledhill
Thanks Neuling. Haven't done any outside weathering yet. Will be doing all the tools etc and decals before weathering outside.

Rui S
Looking Great 👍 Very nice camo indeed. Im in 😎

Thomas Bischoff
Fantastic work!

Mirko Römer
Wow, that is an incredible effort! Very cool!

Nathan Dempsey
Wonderful work there!

Stephan Ryll
Very nice workand dio 👍

Daniel Klink
Incredible good work Aleks 👍

Christian Bruer
Excellent work and finish 👍

Burkhard D
Excellent work! 👍👍👍

Konrad -
Just perfect 👍 !!

Carlos Martin
Amazing!

RaynaButler
Wow! Great work!

Olivier
OK... I see I have no future in modelling if people like you carry on building wuih such level of detail and accuracy. Time to go back to stamp collecting...

Zsolt Czegle
Awesome build! 👍

Holger Kranich
Wow😎

Pierre GARGANI
I join all the others, FANTASTIC build and very impressive display, Congratulations!!

Tom ...
Wow

Łukasz Gliński
Outstanding! The dio looks lovely, the intro/summary text is very cool 🙂 I share the same admiration to the shape of the Backfire, but I couldn't describe it so well 👍

Bernhard Schrock
A true masterpiece!

Bob Hall
Totally agree ! True piece of art work ! AMAZING !

Neuling
Top notch!

Cuajete
Very nice, fantastic, outstanding, fabulous, amazing... I have no words. Congrats!

KlausH
What a fantastic work! Awesome! 👍

Kerber
Opako, bas opako. Pratio sam rad i na Maketarskom kutku...razvalio si ga! Bravo!

Oleg Bogolei
very impressive

Christian Lehmann
Very nice result! 👍

Kees Kleijwegt
Amazing work Aleksandar! 👍👍
Very impressive, really like the boarding ladders (scaffolding 🙂)

Agustin Prellezo
It must be a giant dio! It is awesome! Those ladders are a piece of art on themselves!

Daniel
Amazing, everything is simply perfect!

Erik Leijdens
Amazing work, most impressive sight!

Nathan Dempsey
I just went back and looked at the build log on this one. Even more impressed!

Mike Daniels
Superb. Almost photo realistic.

Aleksandar Šekularac
Thank you so much, your kind words are very appreciated! This was the most ambitious build for me so far and I am really stoked by the result.
Cheers,
Aleks

soheil moghisi
Amazing,really nice.

Ricardo Reis
Wow! 👍 👍 👍

Stephan H.
You can be stoked indeed! Awesome result 👍

Scott Dutton
This is just magnificent, nothing here suggests it's all in 72nd scale, cockpit, figures, weathering and those ladders. What an effort.

gorby
Simply stunning! Even the access platforms are works of are in themselves!

Treehugger
Stunning! A lot of things to look at.

Urban Gardini
Fantastic build and I like your composition of the base as well!

Bryn Crandell
Amazing! The diorama for that beast is fitting. Where did you get the ladders?

Thomas K.
Wooow, a masterpice! I like it! 👍

Aleksandar Šekularac
BIG thanks to you all, once again! 🙂 Bryn the ladders are from North Star Models- you can find them in my Project Inventory. There's also an album dedicated only to them, I hope you saw it.

Urban, the base was a bit of a work as well. I was initially planning to align everything with a rectangular base, which would be easier, but then decided for a more dynamic and visually interesting lookto and arrange it all diagonally. All the edges of the PAG-14 plates needed to be individually sanded and the hoisting grooves opened (see the images in "Tu-22M3 Finished Model & Diorama" album) to produce more realistic look. But the end result was worth the extra effort I think.

Cheers,
Aleks

Urban Gardini
Yes, well worth the extra effort with the base mate!

Slavo Hazucha
Amazing job, such high-level consistence in all aspects & details... great albums & build history, thx for all the documentation and inspiration 🙂 It´s something to look up to!

Stephan Ryll
Congrats Aleksandar 🙂 well deserved Gold medal at Lingen
It was a pleasure to meet you there 👍

Christian Bruer
Congratulations. I only can second Stephans comment.

Bernhard Schrock
At the weekend I had a chance to see this dio live in Lingen and I agree the two last posts. Not only the Tu-22 but the truck is a true masterpiece too.

Stefan Schacht
it was a great pleasure to see it live in Lingen.

Aleksandar Šekularac
It was a real pleasure to meet lot of friends in Lingen, enjoy some great modeling, get feedback from you guys and "recharge my hobby batteries" so to say! An outstanding weekend and great result for the OKB!😉
Thanks much!
Aleks

Christian Keller
Wow what a great Dio, congrats...

Spanjaard
truly impressive in any aspect. well deserved medal!

Cuajete
Congrats for the Gold medal. Well deserved!

Przemek Przybulewski
Love it

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
fabulous

Burkhard D
Seen it live at EME in Lingen. Fantastic build and arrangement. The Gold Medal was well deserved!

Treehugger
Ahaha, my inner child is really liking this. The whole thing is stunning, in a positive way. 🙂

Andy Ball
tour-de-force!!, an excellent depiction - well done on the award!

Harry Bo
Stunning!

Ricardo Reis
Wow!!!! Awesome!!!

Zbynek Honzik
It's real masterpiece!!!

Oleg Smilyk
Awesome!Very realistic!Kraz and Maz looking very nice!

Brandon H
World class, for sure!

Adam Gudynowski
Wonderfull model and diorama 👍

Dima
It's greater than awesome. Zadrotstvo!

Bernd Korte
Most impressive piece of work/art!

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Great job !

Peter Mollenhauer
Fantastic! I hope you will show it someday at a model expo. Congrats!

WAHO LEU
Brilliant ! Brilliant ! Brilliant !

Tobi
The realism and amount of details is beyond my comprehension ... 😮 Outstanding artwork 👍

Filbert_Wang
Absolutely outstanding!

Alistair Graham
Looks amazing.

Paul Juliano
Oh wow, that's gorgeous! The catwalks are a great detail!

Chip H
I don't know how you're not insane after looking at that PE work! Amazing and well done!

Cuajete
Wow... Fantastic job. I don't have words... Congrats!

Kerry COX
Forgive my ignorance, but being un familiar with this kit. 🙁
Are the mobile gantrys scratch built or part of the kit. ?
Either way, the depth of reality is something stunning. 👍
Wonderful result. 😉

Aleksandar Šekularac
Thanks everybody for your great feedback and sorry for my prolonged absence!
Kerry, the boarding platforms are indeed a separate kit by North Star Models. You can find more about building these little things in my album here: Tu-22M Boarding Ladders | Album by Šeki (1:72)

Ben M
Holy cow, that's beautiful.

Daniel Mysak
Simply outstanding, a real masterpiece.

ScaleDetail
Wow!

David Pearson
impressive, looks great

Pierre Pierre
impressive and so well executed ! I am trying to rebuit my old Tu 22 M2 from ESCI, can I ask what paint did you use for the upper surface ?

Aleksandar Šekularac
Yes you can Pierre! 😄
I used Mr.Surfacer 1200... Surprised?

Gary Victory
Aleksandar breath taking work Sir. I really love the dio work. Top job.

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Wow, great diorama and aircraft!
Really impressive. 👍

Pierre Pierre
!! Excellent superb more pics please ! will you make an article for a step by step ?

Mark
JLTRT. 👍

Bruce Huxtable
Simply Superb! Inspirational for sure, congratulations on this masterpiece!

Ronan
Really Impressive 👍

Aleksandar Šekularac
Thanks a lot mates! 😄 Looking back, this was a massive project. Still a lot of these big beasts in the stash to build...

Aleksandar Šekularac
@ Pierre Vauthier - be careful what you wish for... If you are not scared of some excessive ramblings, here's a building blog for this chunk of plastic:
imodeler.com/groups/..-of-tupolev-tu-22m3/

Eric Thornton
Wow that's next level, very nice 👍

Rui S
Incredible work 👍

Neil
Gosh this is such STUNNING work. Makes me wanna pack up and quit now! Ha! Ha! Jaw dropping stuff indeed! 👏👏

Clifford Keesler
Beyond words, stunning.

Kerry COX
Patience, dexterity and determination pays off. !
How sweet it is. 👍 👍 🙂

Rob Salisbury
You are an Artisan. Very nice!

Maciej Bellos
Amazing!

Oliver Zwiener
Klasse Ding !!!

Marius
Looks awesome!

Villiers de Vos
The outcome of your paint work and construction is very good.

Hugh CAST.
What an amazing job on this superb Bomber!

Piotr Sarniński-Górecki
Outstanding dio !

Michael Kohl
incredible result of that mean machine. Put solidly on the ground. Great choice of vehicles and figures that add a lot to appreciate the dimension of this plane. Thanx for the link to the build blog.

Nathan Dempsey
This is definitely one of those builds you never tire of looking over.

David Taylor
Another superb build.

Kerry COX
The plane is one thing. ! But the support equipment is something else. This detail is just wonderful to enlarge and ponder. I love it all. 🙂 👍

alessandro magrelli
Simply majestic 👏

Gustavo Antonelli
¡Excellent work!

Thomas Kolb
OMG, this is absolute masterclass modeling. The weathering is some of the best I have ever seen and the paintwork on those concrete slabs is breathtaking. This diorama is just pure pleasure to look at for a long time!

Ekki
Must have missed this one. Fabulous result. Very good!

Mike Siemers
One word "Impressive"!!!

Finn
Brilliant, well done!

Laurent A
The work is fantastic both on the plane and the diorama;
Congrats

Wiktor Taszłow
😱😱😱

Erik Off
Your model is the reason why I also ordered the plane. 😄 The design of the old Russians I find anyway great and then built in this quality. Wow!
Unfortunately I can't find the ladders anywhere. 😭

Akaidada
😱😱😱

Roland Sachsenhofer
Most impressive- just....awesome!

Madri787
Hello, I am currently building the Tu 22m3 1/72 from Trumpeter and I have noticed that some of the colors in the instructions are completely wrong. Can you please help me and tell me which Mr Hobby colors I can use for the landing gear boxes (both front and the two rear ones), but also which colors I can use for the Kh 15 rockets and for the rocket cabin.
Thank you very much!

Konrad -
Indeed very nice and huge! 👍!

Robert Podkoński
Nice!

Bernd Grün
Very nice build. Cheers!!

Tommy Agne
👍

David Taylor
WOOW.

Marius
Superb!!

Madri787
Hello, I am currently building the Tu 22m3 1/72 from Trumpeter and I have noticed that some of the colors in the instructions are completely wrong. Can you please help me and tell me which Mr Hobby colors I can use for the landing gear boxes (both front and the two rear ones), but also which colors I can use for the Kh 15 rockets and for the rocket cabin.
Thank you very much!