Soviet block repaints

Post by **TSR2** » 10 Nov 2006, 01:44

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.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 10 Nov 2006, 01:47

Hi Ben

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

Dunno how it works though

http://www.avsim.ru/

Garry

Post by **TSR2** » 10 Nov 2006, 02:21

Hi Garry,

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

Thanks anyway mate.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 10 Nov 2006, 02:27

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

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 10 Nov 2006, 03:58

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

VEGAS · Post by **VEGAS** » 10 Nov 2006, 09:09

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!

AndyG · Post by **AndyG** » 10 Nov 2006, 09:26

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:

AndyG

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 10 Nov 2006, 14:07

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

If only you knew your Cyrillic alphabet

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:

Post by **Garry Russell** » 10 Nov 2006, 14:31

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

igorski · Post by **igorski** » 10 Nov 2006, 14:36

Not sure if its AI suitable or not, but heres a Syrian TU16 (Alphasim)

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!