phantom II
Master at Arms
From Russia with extreme prejudice Comes the YAK-3
The Yakovlev Yak-3 was a World War II Soviet fighter aircraft. Robust and easy to maintain, it was much liked by pilots and ground crew alike.
It was one of the smallest and lightest major combat fighters fielded by any combatant during the war, and its high power-to-weight ratio gave it excellent performance.
It proved a formidable dogfighter. Marcel Albert, a French ace, who flew the Yak in USSR with the Normandie-Niémen Group, considered it a superior aircraft to the P-51D Mustang and the Supermarine Spitfire .
The build started by replacing the poor interior detail with round stock
and adding plenty of tabs to make fiddling with both haves easier while fitting of the interior was taking place.
The wheel wells were next . Again, soft details, so more was added.
First some ribs , followed by what I believe were air lines.
Really a lot of fiddling around figuring how to make the ribs.
Installing the lines were no better but I have learned a couple of things here as well.
If you secure the wire with blue tack at one end, you can adjust and glue the other without using a lot of profanity . Wish someone had shown me this years ago.
Next, I decided to tackle another missing detail .
Not as nice as the factory job but I hope that some paint and the closing of the wings will make them look convincing enough.
Cheers, Christian B)
The Yakovlev Yak-3 was a World War II Soviet fighter aircraft. Robust and easy to maintain, it was much liked by pilots and ground crew alike.
It was one of the smallest and lightest major combat fighters fielded by any combatant during the war, and its high power-to-weight ratio gave it excellent performance.
It proved a formidable dogfighter. Marcel Albert, a French ace, who flew the Yak in USSR with the Normandie-Niémen Group, considered it a superior aircraft to the P-51D Mustang and the Supermarine Spitfire .
The build started by replacing the poor interior detail with round stock
and adding plenty of tabs to make fiddling with both haves easier while fitting of the interior was taking place.
The wheel wells were next . Again, soft details, so more was added.
First some ribs , followed by what I believe were air lines.
Really a lot of fiddling around figuring how to make the ribs.
Installing the lines were no better but I have learned a couple of things here as well.
If you secure the wire with blue tack at one end, you can adjust and glue the other without using a lot of profanity . Wish someone had shown me this years ago.
Next, I decided to tackle another missing detail .
Not as nice as the factory job but I hope that some paint and the closing of the wings will make them look convincing enough.
Cheers, Christian B)