1:72 Yak 1 M Mastercraft 1:72

[cookiemonster]

Hello guys,

it's me again.

Here is a kit that I finished 1 moth ago.

It is the Yak 1 M from Mastercraft, that took me 3 years to build.

It took me so long, because this kit is full of problems.

And some of them required more thinking, some just more craftmanship.

The propeler does not fit and looks like a tumor.

There were 1mm gaps betweent he cannopy and the fuselage.

The landing gear was too weak and was not looking good.

The tailwheel was also too weak.

The decals vanished as I've put them in the water.

The cannopy took a lot of filler an sanding to fit to the fuselage, there were 1mm gaps, and th sanding and filling had to be done very carefully.

Cancer was also a problem, but at the end I could remove the tumor by using a propelerspinner from a Rodden LaGG 3 that I had in my sparebox

I've cut the blades off the old prop0eller and glued them to the spinner and glued the spinner to the kit, the spinner fits perfectly in diameter.

Zvezda's Yak 3 is amazing, unfortunately, my Yak will never be finished, because a book crushed it.

But I could use the landinggear from the kit and glue it to the wings.

Yes, I glued it on the wings, the legs of the gear are too small to reach the wheelbay, so the only thing that holds them is super glue.

The tailwheel came from the Emhar LaGG 3 and the decals came from my dealers decalbox.

This is the most interracial kit I've ever build, containing parts from russia, ukraine, poland and britain.

I used Vallejo paints and represnted Lydiya Litvyaks Yak 1.

You may have heard of the "rose of stalingrad", she was one of the most famous and sucessfull russian female fighter pilots.

She was shot down in this plane in 1943.

Vallejo 074 and 094 were mixed for the light green, 168 was used for the black camouflage and 107 for the belly.

I'm very proud of my result and hope that you like it too.

Happy easter,

cookie

The area around the cannopy is putty.












Fammilypicture with a LaGG 3 and a Smer Yak 3.


And with it's sister Yak 3.

[Bonehammer]

Reading your description, and halfway through I though, "Okay. That's when I would have given up." But you didn't! You persevered and beat the thing into submission. A fine replica indeed.

[HOUSTON]

Cookie..

Although you had your trial and tribulations. ... you did an AWESOME job.

She's A STUNNER..

(I LIKE IT... ran out of MY likes )...

[cookiemonster]

Thank you guys, feels good to hear that from you.

ESpcialy the part beating that thing into submission, I have to remember that.

[Cookenbacher]

Cookie-

Excellent perseverance on your part. I'm glad to stuck with it as it turned out great. Thanks also for the background information on the pilot, and excellent tribute all around.

-Cookie