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

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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.


the source for all pics the net.
 
Suddenly Vasilly thinks "We can make Rubles!!!! Parachutes for stadium seating"!!!!!

Sorry
 
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.
 
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.
 
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