YAK-3 Hobby Boss 1:72

[djos]

Hi to all

 

What to do when you get as a gift cheep, simple, not exactly accurate kit...of course built it.

So that happened with this Yak 3 from Hobby Boss.

Kit is accurate in side view outline, fuselage behind the cockpit is much too narrow,  cannon bulges on the upper cowling are very wrongly shaped,  radiator housing  is too flat in profile view,  spinner blades too narrow and too pointed, and so on....

So i started from cockpit, putting something in as it is totally empty,

 

 

Colors used were Hataka for VVS planes, mat Vallejo varnish, some weathering with artistic oli paints...and that was all. Decals are from Zvezda YAK3. 

Model was build as comparison to other two Yaks, Hasegawa and Zvezda kits,  so i made one picture together with them.

So, thanks for looking all critiques welcomed.

Regards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two pictures on daily light:

 

 

Zvezda Yak3, Hobby Boss and at the end Hasegawa:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 26, 2016 by djos
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[thorfinn]

Excellent result!

I just had a similar experience with the HB P-40B. Kit was mostly rubish-y, but fun, and finished mostly looks like what it's supposed to be.

Like your flight-line photo; some nice kites there.

[glatisant]

Looks good to me.Sometimes when it looks ok,then that is more than enough.Especially if you enjoyed building,painting,and decaling it.Life's to short to worry to much about it.Excellent build.

[Meatbox8]

A very nice looking Yak (as are the others).  I've never built one of these Hobby Boss easy kits but I must say they do look intriguing.  Painting and decalling is the fun part of a build for me so maybe I'll have a go at one. 

[Knight_Flyer]

Looks great, quite a neat paint finish.

[BerndM]

What ever the kit flaws are, you turned it  into a great looking result, great line up by the way.

[Jovac]

Nice work. I really like this Hasegawa. And the Zvezda YAK-3 looks very good. This YAK-3 Hobby Boss is super. The most beautiful look of all three together. Regards.