Yakovlev Yak-3
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Jak-3
1.French regiment " Normandie Niemen"
303 FAD USSR, Pilot komandir
Marcel Albert
Spring 1945.
After some fiddling and a lot of putty I finished it.
I used an exhaust from Quicboost, Aires
propeller and spinner and height [...]
After spending way too long on the last couple of builds (mostly do to self-inflicted problems and mistakes) I wanted something quick and easy, so scanning the stash, the Yak jumped out at me.
Apparently you can do it as a snap-together [...]
An old project that had been abandoned for years,finally finished,not contest level but a nice kit...hope you like it.
Today I'd like to share my 1/48th scale Eduard Yak 3 with the group. The kit is one of that company's older efforts, first appearing in 1998, but it's a well-done if occasionally inaccurate effort that does a credible job of representing [...]
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This is my Eduard 1/48 Yak-3 that I finished some time ago.
Petite and lightweight, with its high power-to-weight ratio, the Yak proved to be a formidable dogfighter. Robust and easy to maintain, it was much liked by both [...]
Pain-free. Go slow, enjoy the build and mind the gunsight glass so the carpet monster doesn't eat it.
The blue decal for the spinner is poorly sized and if you use it, the decal won't conform no matter what decal setting solution you use. [...]
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Another Yak from Yugoslav air force finished, this time in standard VVS colors.
Well known model from Hasegawa, with all its faults. After trying to correct most of them, filling wrong panel lines, little correcting of wing [...]
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Finalized one more Yakovlev Yak-3, this time in colors of Yugoslav acrobatic team from 1950. Acro group consisted from 2 Yak's, one in bright red and one in bright yellow color.
Zvezda model in 1/72, very soft plastic, need [...]
This time I present Eduard's Yak-3 model, which I finished in 2018. It is a Profipack package, to which I added photo-etched parts for flaps, Quickboost exhausts and Lift here decals. Considering that it’s quite old model, I think it’s [...]
This is a 1/72 scale Yakovlev Yak-3 by Revell in the colours of a machine from 18. GIAP, East Prussia, 1945.
This was a pretty straight-forward build OOB. Everything fit together pretty nicely. I was well impressed with the full colour, [...]