Austrian Yak C-11

[Max Headroom]

Just a quick question.

I have a 1980's vac form of a C-11 in 1/72 that I fancy finishing (can't remember the manufacturer ATM) that comes with Austrian Air Force markings. My few references give either grey or silver dope as the overall colour. So which one was it? If grey, would it have been from leftover Luftwaffe stocks of RLM02?

Ta

Trevor

[Hhhalifaxxx]

Trevor:

Many years ago I was doing my part of my PhD research in Vienna and I saw an Austrian Yak-11 at the Heersgeschichte Museum there. It was overall finished in light grey, a much paler tone than RLM 02, something like Aircraft Gray as far as I can recall.

Coincidentally, by the same time I purchased an 1/72 vacform kit of that plane at a Viennese shop, made by an outfit named Waku, that came with Polish and Austrian markings.

[JOAN]

Trevor, according to the "Skryzydla 21", Austrians C-11 seems to have been grey ( no silver dope visible at all on the few poor photos in this book...)

I would go with what Hhhaaaaliiiifaaaaxxxxx said above but I think the green balance of the RLM 02 is wrong. To me the good balance is blue not green.

see here :

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/6/7/7/1127776.jpg

http://photos.skrzydla.org/2011-07-17/126220.jpg

http://skrzydla.org/showphoto.php?photo_id=64186

http://www.wildbergair.com/photos/museum/20090801Zeltweg/20090801_058.JPG

http://karo-aviation.nl/photo/images/zeltweg07/photo1.jpg

http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1321354M.jpg

before restoration :

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8011/7461339508_43379e1d2f_z.jpg

http://www.khs.at/graz/k%20Yakovlev%20Yak%2011%20(4C-AH)%20.jpg

A nice walkaround here :

http://aircraftwalkaround.hobbyvista.com/yak11/yak11.htm

http://hobby-maquettes.xooit.fr/t1249-YAKOVLEV-YAK-11.htm

http://www.lecharpeblanche.fr/2011/12/16/walkaround-yakolev-yak-11-let-c-11/

I have the RVLP in 1/48 and will go to a Czech one.

Hope this will help.

cheers

Olivier

Edited March 14, 2013 by JOAN

[Max Headroom]

Hhhalifaxxx!

Wacu - that rings a bell. As soon as I have access to my own personal AMARC (the garage currently hosting my bathroom - dont ask -) I'll check it out. Now you mention it, the Polish markings seem familiar.

I'll take on board your comments on colour.

Oliver!

Wonderful links and I'll take time to study them.

Looking at the other exhibits it seems that the Austrian Air Force would make an ideal 'small air force' collection.

.........didn't they fly the Vampire T.11?

Trevor

Edited March 14, 2013 by Max Headroom

[Hhhalifaxxx]

I may be wrong, but I suspect the light grey livery was some kind of factory finish, as it seems to have been ubiquitous. I haven't tackled my Waku kit yet, after so many years, but now that you mentioned it, why not do it? Having a keen interest in Middle East air forces, I'll probably build it as an Egyptian airframe, with UAR markings. (AFAIK, those were all light grey, too, while other single-engine trainers of that era, such as the Heliopolis Gomhouria (Bücker Bestmann) were painted bright yellow-orange.)

While we're at it, there was a Franco-Russian 1960 movie called NORMANDIE-NIÉMEN about that famous unit which, lacking airworthy Yak single-engine fighters, had a bunch of Yak-11 doubling for their more pugnacious forebears.