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From Russia with Love: Soviet Red Star Fighter
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From Russia with Love: Soviet Red Star Fighter

A hand-drawn dieselpunk chibi fighter in Soviet green, with a big red star, the number 68 and CCCP along the flank, a wooden propeller and oil dripping steadily onto the apron.

Whatever you make of Russia at the moment, they built some wonderful aircraft, MiGs and all, in true Soviet brutalist style, and this is that style lovingly recreated: rivets, slab metal, twin bazooka exhausts and a brutal exhaust note, if you could hear it and it were real. The open cockpit was never a favourite with the imaginary pilots, and being Russia there is probably no heating. Truly a cold war.