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SirFrancis
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LOL.......Fake News! was alive and well back then....
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LOL.......Fake News! was alive and well back then....And a pic more with a pair of Yak-23s of the Bulgarian AF in ... both B&W and colour.
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An interesting thing is that the same pic was retouched and the Bulgarian planes became the soviet ones.
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the pic source: the net.
That walk around video is awesome! Ok ... so looks like enough evidence for Romanian stars on top wing... cool. But I'm really keen to use the yellow numbers. Haven't seen any Romanian birds with yellow numbers. Seems all are red so far.
Yeah that's solid red. Looks like I'll have to decide between Yellow 25 Bulgarian with no top wing star or...... Romanian with top wing star but red number (I think I have 41 & 14 )Yes it looks like most of them had the red numbers with a white or black outline. However there could be exceptions. See the image below. If there was the black outline it would be visible clearly. Thoughts?
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the source: the Mosin-Nagant in Romania after WWII
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You can use any number you want for a Bulgarian a/c. Bulgaria received more than 100-120 exemplars.So just going to throw in a theoretical.... I have the option of using a yellow 52 or reversing it and making it 25. The yellow 52 was meant for a Soviet aircraft. It could have remained yellow 52 if given to Bulgaria / Romania. Since we have a yellow 23 Bulgarian on display, might they have had a yellow 25?
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ok...why red 2?Hey, paint it RED TWO.
Nice...so they mounted them up on the bricks after restoration I suppose. I have red 41, 01, 14 and yellow 52 / 25.... I like yellow so will probably go with Yellow 25You can use any number you want for a Bulgarian a/c. Bulgaria received more than 100-120 exemplars.
The restored "Yellow 23" was formerly a "Red 42" I believe:
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The museum obviously wanted to show 2 different variants of the a/c when in use.
It's a Forum member's nickname. Also a Star Wars reference. As long as any number will do.ok...why red 2?
The photo of the Yak-23 from the Romanian Air Force comes from me, I posted it on Facebook in 2014, I think. I received the picture to scan from the pilot in the picture, Lt. Grigore Cernea. The picture is from 1957-1958 at Caransebes airfield.Unfortunately neither any image of the Bulgarian Yaks nor of the Romanian ones shows the insignia on the wing tops. It seems that the rule was to apply them at the six locations. I mean both on the fuselage, fin sides and undersides. The only difference were the Czechoslovakian planes. These didn't have the markings on their fuselage sides. So the two insignias were applied on the wing tops to keep the number of six markings applied. Because the Romanian Yak-23s had the insignias on the fuselage sides it looks there weren't these on the wing tops.
The Czechoslovakian Yak-23s ...
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the pic source: Rychlý rozvoj letectví "zabil" jaky, které se u nás měly licenčně vyrábět - iDNES.cz
a Romanian one ...
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Another photo from me, posted on Facebook. In the picture Lt. Benko Francisc, Caransebes, 1956-57.Yes it looks like most of them had the red numbers with a white or black outline. However there could be exceptions. See the image below. If there was the black outline it would be visible clearly. Thoughts?
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the source: the Mosin-Nagant in Romania after WWII
the source of the orginal pic : Log into Facebook
Ok Interesting.
Well in the end after all that researching, the crappy decals in the Mister Craft kit just fell to pieces as I cut them from the main card. All of them! I've never seen anything as bad in my life. Luckily the yellow 52 was on a different card and was ok. I had to scrounge through my spares box and found some soviet stars to use. So in the end it became soviet yellow 52 as per many photos. However the tail stars have a white border but I had nothing else and I wasn't going to spend one more cent on this kit. It was a horror kit. I had to completely reshape the nose with filler to make it look one piece as it came with an ill fitting nose cap. I had to use filler on the wing roots. The canopy did not fit at all and again had to use lots of filler to blend it in to the fuselage. It had a square hole about 4x3mm behind the cockpit for no reason which again I had to fill in. There was no exhaust nozzle at all so I scratch build one. I was happy with how the nose turned out after a lot of work. But the rest of the model is pretty crud. Will never buy a Mister Craft kit again.
Hey Wurger, better than mine...lol. So you must have re-shaped/filled the nose section like I did. With the nose cap that came with the kit (right at the tip) it looked wrong. Did not have a smooth one piece looking nose. I think I can just make out that square hole behind cockpit like mine had.Actually it is not the Mistercraft kit but the old KP no.18 kit from end of 70'- beginning 80' . The KP is known as Kovozavody Prostejov today.
Looking good though.
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the source: the net.
PS. My one assembled about 35 years ago ...
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Hey Wurger, better than mine...lol. So you must have re-shaped/filled the nose section like I did. With the nose cap that came with the kit (right at the tip) it looked wrong. Did not have a smooth one piece looking nose. I think I can just make out that square hole behind cockpit like mine had.
The photo of the Yak-23 from the Romanian Air Force comes from me, I posted it on Facebook in 2014, I think. I received the picture to scan from the pilot in the picture, Lt. Grigore Cernea. The picture is from 1957-1958 at Caransebes airfield.
Another photo from me, posted on Facebook. In the picture Lt. Benko Francisc, Caransebes, 1956-57.