**** DONE : GB-53 1/48 Yak-3 - Eastern Front

[Crimea_River]

I'm now questioning the wheel well colours called up by Zvezda (dark grey). The inner gear doors appear to be much lighter in colour on this B&W period pic from Yak-3, S.I. Rogovoi, 64 giap, 4 giad

Walkaround pics here IPMS Nederland - Walk around - Yakovlev YAK-3 suggest the inners door to be a light blue and I'd guess it to be the same as the AMT-7 undersides. Thoughts?

 

[Crimea_River]

Found some good references of the gun deck here: Як-3 - Вопросы по матчасти : Форум моделистов

 

[Wurger]

I'm now questioning the wheel well colours called up by Zvezda (dark grey). The inner gear doors appear to be much lighter in colour on this B&W period pic from Yak-3, S.I. Rogovoi, 64 giap, 4 giad

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Walkaround pics here IPMS Nederland - Walk around - Yakovlev YAK-3 suggest the inners door to be a light blue and I'd guess it to be the same as the AMT-7 undersides. Thoughts?

Actually there is no answer to the question Andy. The ligher appearance of the doors could have been caused by the snow and the light reflection. In a couple of pics of the Normandie-Niemen Yak-3s it can be noticed that the inner doors could be of a grey shiny metalic tone while the colour of the undersides is matt. It is possible that the grey or aluminium paint could be a kind of a gloss coat.

However the pic shows the colour there almost the same as the one for undersides. The

The exibited Yak-3 presents the dark grey wheel bays but the doors of the underside coat. But the kite was repainted a couple of times IMHO. And the colour shouldn't be taken for granted. Anyway what coat you apply it can be fine as there is no evidence which one was there.

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[le_steph40]

In the color photo of NN's Yak-3, the inner gear door color seems to be in A-14 color in accordance with the treatment that the interior parts are supposed to receive

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys. Yes, their seems to be good evidence toward a grey colour so I will go with that.

 

[Wurger]

In the color photo of NN's Yak-3, the inner gear door color seems to be in A-14 color in accordance with the treatment that the interior parts are supposed to receive

Yep .. I agree. The A-14 is very likely.

 

[N4521U]

Actually there is no answer to the question Andy. The ligher appearance of the doors could have been caused by the snow and the light reflection. In a couple of pics of the Normandie-Niemen Yak-3s it can be noticed that the inner doors could be of a grey shiny metalic tone while the colour of the undersides is matt. It is possible that the grey or aluminium paint could be a kind of a gloss coat.

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Suddenly Vasilly thinks "We can make Rubles!!!! Parachutes for stadium seating"!!!!!

Sorry

 

[T Bolt]

Some really nice work there Andy

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks again Gents.

The radio provided with the kit is a moulded in lump of plastic that looks too small:

Using references on line, I set about cutting off the lump and scratch built my own lump:

And with the paint:

I also need to scratch up some seat belts and will do that next.

On the rad flap, I noticed that the actuators are missing and so added them now with stretched sprue. I've found the easiest way to do this is to drill though the flap and fuselage and glue in the pieces. When dry, I cut back the stubs on the flap and sand the area smooth.

Apologies for the crap pics as I cropped these from larger mobile phone pics. Thanks again for looking in.

 

[fubar57]

Very nice radio

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Must say that radio is a vast improvement from that moulded lump Andy and a good tip for all with the actuator placement. Nicely done.

 

[Crimea_River]

Very kind gents thanks. Second intermission in the Flames game so I will post another quickie. I scratched up a set of belts this evening using wine bottle foil and installed the kit's armoured glass. Cheers.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Seat belts look great. Hope your team is winning.

 

[Wurger]

Well done Andy.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far Andy!

 

[N4521U]

Awsome

 

[T Bolt]

Very nice improvements Andy

 

[Wayne Little]

Real nice improvements Andy.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks again gents. I decided to have some fun with adding what appear to be gun cocking or interrupter mechanisms based on the photos I posted above. The parts are seen in white:

Just before I took the above pic, I dropped my phone on the model and broke a bit of what I had done so I had to re-glue things. Below are the same parts, now painted. I only just noticed, after cropping this pic, that the phone drop also popped the port cowl framing out at the wing root so I will need to push that back in and secure it,

More soonish.

 

[le_steph40]

nice details