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Hi, After finishing Norwegian He 115 I am thinking on Hover MF 11. Although my documentation is still not complete to start, no data on interior at all...So I turn to something else. Poleikarpov R5/RZ family. In my stash I have three kits: 1. Special Hobby RZ 2. Apex R5 3. MPM (vacu) R5 Boxes looks like this: Besides what I have found in Net I have this nice monography by M.Maslov on Polikarpov R5/RZ family (here Polish translation): It contains text infos, photos, drawings and colour profiles on those airplanes. The most interesting are drawings: I build i will try to follow those drawings: The last one is transport version of R5, so called "Limusine". I designed the Apex kit to convert it to this version. This will be winter camo on skis, which is photo in book. The SH will be RZ in Spanish Republican colours, Not decided yet which numbers exactly. The MPM kit I designed to be R5, also not decided yet in which colours finally (Russian or Chineese likely), but for sure on wheels (no ski), The SH kit seems to have a bit too low fin. The Apex is much more basic if you compare with SH. In Apex kit the wings are problematic. The shape of wingtips is certainly wrong The chors of upper wing is some 2 mm to long, and the surface is wrong - the ribs looks like pannel lines, not ribs... I am not decided yet what I will do with it. One option is to copy in resin wings of MPM...The other is to rework te surface and diminishing chord. Both options not simple and for sure not fast. And this is MPM - a good qulity but Vacu I start to do some inetrior in APex and MPM kits To be continued Jerzy Wojtek
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A few Russian planes built from Russian kits
Ozmac posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
A few years ago a friend came across a stash of boxed plastic model kits left behind by a Russian trade delegation at some kind of trade show. The Russians abandoned the boxes, saying to my friend "take what you like" and so he bought home as many as he and his wife could carry. Once I took up model-building in 2013, he gave me a selection of these freebie kits so I could practise model-building with them. While they were as rough as guts, they taught me a bit about sanding, filling and all the basic modelling skills. So here they are. First up, there are three different Yak 3s, all in 1/48 scale. All the writing on the box is Russian, so I don't know who makes the kits, unfortunately. The decals were old and crumbly, but I found some after-marker decals on eBay and used them up on the three planes I practised on. The Yak 3 was reportedly a very capable fighter, highly manouvrable and not to be underestimated in combat. To give you an idea how rough and basic the kits are, two pix That's one whole Yak 3 kit, and these are the nasty propeller castings. Next plane is a twin-engined light bomber/utility/transport plane, the Yak 6 (in 1/72 scale). Same as with the Yak 3, the box was all in Russian. FInally, a Polikarpov R5, a late 20s/early 30s military plane used in various roles, including reconnaissance and light bombing, which was used in the Battle of Kalkin Gol (Russians v Japanese), in Mongolia, in 1939. They were still in use in WWII supporting the partisans, especially at night (it was too slow for daytime work). It was powered by a 47-litre BMW engine, built under licence by the Russians.
