This month sees the welcome re-release of Special Hobby's excellent 1:32 Yak-3.
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://aeroscale.net/news/yakovlev-yak-3-normandie-niemen-hi-tech
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://aeroscale.net/news/yakovlev-yak-3-normandie-niemen-hi-tech
I’m actually building the first release at the moment.
EDIT: Wow, I paid about $20 less for the first release.
It’s a pretty decent kit so far; I have painted all the interior parts and am about to start closing the fuselage and attaching the wings which is where the short run aspect begins appearing. The instructions aren’t the clearest on how the mlg bays go together and I ended up having to do a bit of trimming the interior panels and filling gaps, then gradually sand down the top of the whole assembly until I could close the gaps along the wings edges with little pressure; I don’t want tension popping them apart years from now because the glue didn’t quite do its job. I also know from reading prior builds online that the fuselage-to-wing process requires more filler and tweaking, some of which I’ve already done in advance (Thank you pioneers!).
Once done I think it will look quite good. Shouldn’t be that different from building a 70’s tooling Revell kit and bringing it up to current standards, right?
Making me want to get another Trumpeter Mig-3 and see if the me ten years later can do a better job than on the first one.