Well, Eduard has really arrived in the big leagues with this baby. No more jokes about "clunky Eastern Bloc injection molding" EVER again. Note brass piping bore of spinner cannon.
Fixed armament of the Yak-3 was all centered around the cowling and spinner. Again, I spruced up the kit a bit by replacing gun bores with brass tubing. The gun bore louvres in the cowling were blackened with pastel powder.
Unusual "seagull" emblem. If anyone knows the story on this marking, drop me a line, please.
Nice shot of the Yak-3 showing its distinctive overhead profile. The Yak-3 was the smallest and lightest major production fighter of WW2.
Just a tease shot of some front office detail.
Now wait a minute...You don't think the Soviet Aircraft Design Bureau would have let Comrade Yakovlev rip off the landing gear design from the Fw190, do you? Would the Russians ever steal or copy designs? Nahhh...
Note weird light blue inboard landing gear bay cover and its actuator gear. This rather funky, Evangelist leisure suit shade of underside blue, FYI, is the actual shade used by the VVS (Soviet Air Force) during the Great Patriotic War, not some bastardized, watered-down Hellblau RLM color as spurious documentation has led us to believe all of these years...
Handsome side profile of the Yak-3. The aerial, by the way, is made from nice, stretchy black nylon hose thread (no, not mine...).