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Soviet block repaints

Posted: 10 Nov 2006, 01:44
by TSR2
Hi Chaps.

On my recent trips to Moscow I was disapointed in my lack of AI for the old Soviet areas, so I promptly se about adding 134's / 154's IL62,76,62 etc.

One thing I did notice is that on the two main sites (Allnodes & Avsim) there doesn't seem to be mainy repaints of these aircraft.

Does anyone know where the best place to get the repaints for Eastern Block countries would be? I have a few Tarom / CSA (But would like the OK jet IL62) / LOT, but surelt there were more than that? Or did Aeroflot opperate most of the flights in these countries?

Any advice greatly recieved... P.S. I've had a look at avsim.ru... but don't speak a world of Russian so have no idea where things are. :lol:

Posted: 10 Nov 2006, 01:47
by Garry Russell
Hi Ben

This might be a good start.......


Dunno how it works though :dunno:

http://www.avsim.ru/

Garry

Posted: 10 Nov 2006, 02:21
by TSR2
Hi Garry,

Thats the place I mentioned in my post, but I can't read Russian, so I'm stuffed. :lol:

Thanks anyway mate. :smile:

Posted: 10 Nov 2006, 02:27
by Garry Russell
Sorry Ben I didn't read your post properly


Can you get anything out of Babelfish or what ever it's called

Maybe just try holding it up to a mirror :roll:

I'm sure they write properly when we're not looking :sad:

Garry

Posted: 10 Nov 2006, 03:58
by DanKH
This is the place to go for Russian AI:

http://www.trafficsystem.ru/

And it comes in English flavour too ;-)

You might look for repaint for PAI-aicrafts here:
http://projectai.com/libraries/textmode ... &Go=Change

Posted: 10 Nov 2006, 09:09
by VEGAS
Hi Ben,

Nice to see your a fellow fan of the 'dark side'. There are some awesome classics to be had for AI on that site. And stacks of repaints on AVSIM, especially for the IL-76! :wink:

Posted: 10 Nov 2006, 09:26
by AndyG
Garry Russell wrote:Sorry Ben I didn't read your post properly


Can you get anything out of Babelfish or what ever it's called

Maybe just try holding it up to a mirror :roll:

I'm sure they write properly when we're not looking :sad:

Garry
Just put the main url into Babelfish, some of the translation is a little approximate but just about intelligible. Still a pig to navigate even then, but worth the effort as there are some real gems, especially scenery wise - download rates are veeeeeeerrrry slow, unless you register. I've yet to work out how to register!! :roll: :lol:

AndyG

Posted: 10 Nov 2006, 14:07
by ianhind
I'm sure they write properly when we're not looking
If only you knew your Cyrillic alphabet :lol:

Many of the words on there are just translated English words since they haven't invented the technology words of their own. So a one-to-one equivalence most of the time. A bit like the CCCP translating to SSSR.

Having done a year's Russian many, many years ago (was our teacher recruiting for the KGB?) I can just about navigate the site.

But even more helpful is reading the English tags at the bottom of the screen as you mouse over. :dance:

Posted: 10 Nov 2006, 14:31
by Garry Russell
Ian

Yep I do have the alphabet , but have not the taime to start trying to decypher anything there as it is of no use to me anyway.

Words become quite prononucable when converted


Garry

Posted: 10 Nov 2006, 14:36
by igorski
Not sure if its AI suitable or not, but heres a Syrian TU16 (Alphasim)

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Sorry about size of images, this was a 'blind' repaint, so the screenshots are from the guy it was painted up for - based on a photo of the Badger G, and him in his F-8 on its tail!