[planenutsfrog]

In spite of my previous BIG disappointment with the Mi-17, I think I am going to order this one...

[rarmenda]

Nice, it is a unique aircraft. Is this JB-7 the main aircraft for china's airforce. Lookoing forward to your insight on this A/C.

[Sluf01]

Planesnutsfrog: Where did you find this beauty on Ebay?? Is it from a store or individual?? Information would be appreciated..

[planenutsfrog]

As usual for this kind of stuff, at this store : china-legendmodel.

The FBC-1 (or JB-7) is a twin seats, twin engined, supersonic interdictor (2 x RR Spey, MTOW : 27 tons). It's mainly used by Chinese naval aviation in the maritime strike role.

[ChairmanMilo]

There's a lot of useful information here:

JH-7 Fighter-Bomber - SinoDefence.com

It is estimated that ~70-100 of them are in service. As planenutsfrog indicated, most of them area in service with PLA Naval Aviation. Some units are in service with the regular PLAAF.

I always thought it was an interesting plane - looks a tiny bit like the Jaguar.

[b-huj]

The photo shown there is probably a real plane photoshoped onto the stand. I saw some pictures of the Gaincorp plane is a box (will post it later, bookmarked in another laptop) and it does not look SO detailed.

[clone_viper]

Not sure this is the same model, but found a FBC-1 diecast model link with a lot pictures(all in Chinese).
I do not collect modern aircraft, but it looks pretty good

纽卡 - 新浪BLOG

[Louie]

looks different if it's 1/72 as I suspect judging by the pic of it next to the DW F-14, I would buy one as long as the price is reasonable.

[b-huj]

good hunt! These pictures show an amazingly detailed model, all imprinting in Chinese! The lighter livery with a dark backdrop is a trumpeter kit build, the one with natural light is the diecast Gaincorp.
The Chinese blogger/collectors also warns there is another diecast of the JB-7 but less detailed.

I am surprised that the model has all the details a Gaincorp 1/48 would have, maybe because the "Fei Bao" (Flying Panther) is a rather large aircraft? I stumbled upon this picture and the quality is not good, but confirms this particular Gaincorp looks promising. The box is a typical Chinese-market only package. The other model with a different stand is another discovery, seems less interesting and could be the one the blogger was referring to?

[Louie]

Yep, I know I have to own this model now.............