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SB-2M-100
SB-2M-100, 1/72 scale ( Bert Andermann ). "Tupolev SB, 49.SPAP, Mongolia, June 1940, ICM kit built from the box except scratchbuilt canopies (pilot, rear gunner)."
SB-2M-103
SB-2M-103, 1/72 scale ( James D. Gray ). "This is the MPM kit, which isn't good, and if you want an SB, I'd recommend buying one from ICM. Indeed, while ICM hasn't yet kitted this version, it would probably be easier to convert ICM's than to correct the MPM.
"To be completely fair, the MPM kit is crude, but buildable. The problem is that it is riddled with inaccuracies, great and small, in shape and detail. It is obvious that MPM was working without good plans or even good photographs, and used their imagination a lot. You could do much better with it than I did, if you launch into it with Maslov's new SB book (which I didn't have when I started) and the granite determination to fix as many of the problems as possible, but I doubt it would be worth the effort.
"As an example of unfixable problems, the fuselage cross-section is wrong; for most of the length, the real thing is egg-shaped, with the big end down. The kit's fuselage is a perfect (and incorrect) oval.
"As an example of the fixable problems, there's a hatch-window above the navigator/bombardier's station in the nose. MPM has a window here, but they have no idea of the correct size or shape. This doesn't sound very bad, but there are so, so many similar problems."
SB
SB, 1/72 scale ( Uwe Borchert ). "Tupolev SB-2M-100A in spanish service 1937. The MPM-Kit is a nice kit in the box, but by comparison with drawings and fotos there are many faults. The tail behind the gunner is to shallow. Thes are no windows in the near of the gunnerstation. In the wings are waves and dents. The airsrews are heavy paddle and must replace. Every pice such as MGs or venturie must also replace or make new. I only used the nosecanopy from the clearsheet."
SB
SB, 1/72 scale ( Václav Lomitzki ). MPM.
SB
SB, 1/72 scale ( Alex Ruchkovsky ). SB-2M-100A (or early -2M-103) of an unknown regiment, probably North Western (Baltic) area, summer 1941. The NOVO kit with NeOmega resin engines, ailerons, MV-3 ball turret and nose cupola. A number of smaller details stolen from the MPM kit. Tail markings airbrushed. Photo reference: BARBAROSSA VICTIMS, Mushroom Modelling Magazine, Poland.