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1/72 - Yakovlev Yak-18P/PM/PS "Max" by Amodel - released


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AModel is to release a family of 1/72nd Yakovlev Yak-18 "Max" kits.

ref.72318 - Yakovlev Yak-18P

Source: http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AMU72318

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ref.72319 - Yakovlev Yak-18P

Source: http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AMU72319

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ref.73320 - Yakovlev Yak-18PS

Source: http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AMU72320

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ref.73321 - Yakovlev Yak-18 'Maestro'

Source: http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AMU72321

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That last one is interesting..... I took this photo at the State Aviation Museum at Zhulany, Kiev in 2010......

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It is a trainer 'converted' to look like a Yak-9 - but it has the same markings as the Amodel Yak-18 kit.

Interesting........

Ken

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>> it has the same markings as the Amodel Yak-18 kit.

These markings are spurious.

A-Model's boxart represents a Yak-18P that was used in a 1973 Soviet film "Only Old Men Are Going to Battle" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Old_Men_Are_Going_to_Battle) to act as La-5 fighter.

This particular film is very well known in Russia; I surmise this is why A-Model decided to prodcude a kit with appropriate markings.

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Thanks for the info ShadowRaider..........

I wonder if the Yak-18P markings for the film were based on a 'real' aircraft - and that is what the Zhulaniy 'Yak-9' is supposed to replicate??

I.E. - there was a real wartime Yak-9 with those markings and the film used a Yak-18P to replicate it (turning it into an La-5 in the process) ??

Intriguing......

Ken

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