JC Wings has a variety of excellent moulds that barely get any use. A good deal of the blame for this can be laid at the door of their production partner Gemini Jets who I have heard block a lot of releases, however with Yu ModeLs producing an IL-86 on the JC mould soon there is hope we might get to see more of the big Russian Airbus.
The JC Wings / Gemini Jets Ilyushin IL-86 mould is superb, basically a perfect representation of the type. Unfortunately the mould’s usage has been very limited with as of now only 9 models made using it (4 Geminis and 5 JC Wings) plus the upcoming China Xinjiang white tail version from Yu ModeLs.
With just over 100 production aircraft and almost no usage outside the CIS states livery possibilities are a little limited but there are still some really good models to be made for large airlines. Plus thanks to the nature of Russian aviation in the 2000s there are quite a few decent hybrids too.
Aeroflot
The standard Soviet flag and Russian flag liveries have both been released already by Gemini but nobody has made the grey tailed version of the Russian flag scheme:
Other Russians
CIS States
![UN-86071 - Il-86 - Kazakhstan Airl. [Vnukovo 8.95]](https://live.staticflickr.com/3884/14824617370_c05f151473_b.jpg)
Pakistan
Turkey
The Turkish charter airline Greenair leased a single Il-86 from Soviet-era Aeroflot.
Summary
Top 10
For myself the top 10 IL-86s above that I’d like to see are:
- Aeroflot (Grey Tail)
- Vnukovo Airlines
- Sibir (Full original clrs)
- Sibir (Feather tail with S7 tail)
- Sibir (Vnukovo hybrid)
- AJT International
- Orient Avia
- Kazakstan Airlines
- Kras Air
- Atlant Soyuz
