Title: Yak 18 reference. Post by: Ioaea on March 23, 2006, 02:25:04 AM For anyone who's modelling or intends to model the Trumpeter 32nd or Amodel 72nd trainer, an interesting find is the original? flight manual scan -probably the best page is:-
http://yak18.boom.ru/book056.htm Which shows front cockpit detail, although an illustration only. Bear in mind this is for the original Yak 18 not the 18A or suchlike. Cheers. Edit: Also take a peek at http://yak18.boom.ru/sar00.htm for some shots of a Yak 1 and Yak 3. Interesting. Title: Re: Yak 18 reference. Post by: Dark Green Man on March 24, 2006, 03:03:52 AM Thanks for the links !
I have been considering the Amodel Yak-18 not sure if I'll do a red one or the NKAF machine..... the 1/32 is WAAAY to big for my shelves. Title: Re: Yak 18 reference. Post by: Ioaea on March 25, 2006, 05:23:26 AM Ah, DGM. The Amodel 18. Don't get me wrong, there's something very endearing about the 18, but this kit's engine nacelle is something akin to a sculpture by Tony Hancock. Not Tate Gallery material, anyway.
I bought two of 'em and both were the same, pretty bad. You may like to hack off the front end of a Yak 52 and replace for an 18A or U. Fun. The Yak 5 prototype is another possibility if you're a masochist and simply must have an M-11FR type. Why? Because it'd be a very ugly model and it would turn heads. Edit: If you want to really model the all-red 18 in all *its* ugliness, forget the spinner. You'd then have the immense joy of making some spinner attachment thingies on yonder prop hub. Title: Re: Yak 18 reference. Post by: Dark Green Man on March 25, 2006, 08:42:50 PM OH ! you are a sadist!
just a little light-hearted humor. LOL actually I wish they had been smart enough to do the Yak-18PM instead of the initial model. but the trick is to do the Korean war version to go with the Yak-9P,Tu-2,La-9 and La-11 Title: Re: Yak 18 reference. Post by: Ioaea on March 26, 2006, 06:51:17 PM Naa.
Have a nice shot of an 18 in what looks like silver dope/natural aluminium on display on a pair of massive concrete blocks, dated 1948. It's uglier without the red. The concrete bloks are paragons of beauty really, by comparison. I love this plane. Truly. : ) Title: Re: Yak 18 reference. Post by: Dark Green Man on March 26, 2006, 11:41:38 PM you have a strange eye for beauty.
LOL ;D Title: Re: Yak 18 reference. Post by: Ioaea on March 27, 2006, 06:46:59 PM Yessir.
You wouldn't happen to have anything interesting on the Yak 11, would you, DGM? Ta. Title: Re: Yak 18 reference. Post by: Dark Green Man on March 28, 2006, 12:45:50 AM MMM
very little I'm afraid (that will have to change later though) do you have "Yak fighters in action" ? the Yak-11 is a mutilation of the Yak-3 in case you didn't know. ;) if you can do Cyrillic fonts then simply type in Yak-11(in Cyrillic) into your favorite search engine and you might get some interesting results. then there is always Altavista's Babelfish for translations from Russian to English. Title: Re: Yak 18 reference. Post by: Ioaea on March 30, 2006, 11:29:02 AM the Yak-11 is a mutilation of the Yak-3 in case you didn't know. ;) Yeah, it has a LA front-end. Mutilated, as you say. ;D Title: Re: Yak 18 reference. Post by: Dark Green Man on March 31, 2006, 04:08:06 AM also a section of the wing was taken out of the middle.
Як-11 just copy/paste that into Babelfish http://www.babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr and don't forget to copy/paste this one in too http://mkmagazin.almanacwhf.ru/avia/yak_11.htm Title: Re: Yak 18 reference. Post by: Ioaea on March 31, 2006, 04:11:45 PM also a section of the wing was taken out of the middle. Як-11 just copy/paste that into Babelfish http://www.babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr and don't forget to copy/paste this one in too http://mkmagazin.almanacwhf.ru/avia/yak_11.htm Ah, grand. I see there's an AIR-6 in one of these links. There was a model being sold on ebay a month or so ago -looke very much like the AIR-6, but with a name that was unidentifiable/incomprehensible -eastern european origin though.. More I look at it, it might well have been an opportunity missed. :( Thanks, DGM. |