Zvezda continues printing decals.
"Friends and colleagues!
Today - good news for fans of aviation in 1/72!
Work on the decal for our new model of the Soviet fighter Yak-1 is nearing completion, we present the model for your judgment!
As many as nine coloring options + technical inscriptions!
1. Yak-1 from the 183rd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Red Army Air Forces, pilot - Hero of the Soviet Union Senior Lieutenant M. D. Baranov (about 200 combat sorties, 70 air battles, 23 personal aerial victories), Stalingrad Front, August 1942.
2. Yak-1 from the 20th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the USSR Navy Air Forces, pilot - Senior Lieutenant E. V. Petrenko (293 combat sorties, about 80 air battles, 14 personal and 3 group aerial victories), Vaenga-1 airfield (Murmansk), summer 1942.
3. Yak-1 from the 21st Fighter Aviation Regiment of the USSR Navy Air Forces, pilot - regiment commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant Colonel Ya. Z. Slepenkov (157 combat sorties, 20 air battles, 8 personal and 1 group aerial victory), Red Banner Air Forces Baltic Fleet, winter 1942-1943.
4. Yak-1 from the 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Red Army Air Forces, pilot - Lieutenant V. I. Klimenko (335 combat sorties, 42 air battles, 12 personal air victories), Kalinin Front, Rzhev-Sychevka Operation, August 1942.
5. Yak-1 from the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Red Army Air Forces, pilot - Hero of the Russian Federation Lieutenant E. V. Budanova (109 combat sorties, 3 personal air victories), Saratov-Balashovsky Air Defense District, September 1942.
6. Yak-1 from the 21st Fighter Aviation Regiment of the USSR Navy Air Forces, pilot - Sergeant V. I. Tkachev (about 300 combat sorties, 16 personal and 6 group air victories), Air Force of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, September 1942 g.
7. Yak-1 from the 516th Fighter Aviation Regiment, pilot - Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant I. F. Gnezdilov (376 combat sorties, 86 air battles, 18 personal and 5 group air victories), Western Front, Slabtsovo airfield (Rzhev area), November 1942.
8. Yak-1 from the 2nd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Red Army Air Forces, pilot - regiment commander Colonel A. I. Grisenko (more than 60 combat sorties, 27 air battles, 4 personal air victories + 4 air victories in China in 1937-1938), Southwestern Front, July-August 1942.
9. Yak-1 from the 8th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the USSR Navy Air Forces, pilot - Captain M. V. Avdeyev (about 500 combat sorties, 141 air battles, 12 personal and 6 group victories), group air victories), Black Sea Fleet Air Force, Khersones airfield (Sevastopol), spring 1942."
