Hi all,
really beautiful photos.
red 23: after four years of delay, I've finished the model of this nice plane few weeks ago. It's not as accurate as that of Ilya, but nice anyway.
By the way, the English version of the article was published on the site of our friend EP.
I think that some parts as the nose and around the stars and numbers were painted with normal white paint because of its better quality, while the remaining part was just passed with few thinned chalky paint.
The bottles should be of compressed air for the starter and other pneumatic devices. Perhaps one is of oxygen too. If I don't miss, it has two rockets under each wing.
The second plane looks painted with normal white paint overall, perhaps thicker on the sides. Note that the landing grear, in contrast, looks black, while it should be dark grey. I suppose that spinner and stripe are red, and this livery lasted few time, being deleted before returning into combat.
In absence of EP, I could think that the black paint was replaced by silver one, leaving the green; the arrow should be green, because it has silver fillets separing it from the green, but not any fillet around the star, so it is not red. I think to see a red star high on the tail, with its lower tips cutten by the light color.
The other photos are beautiful too, I love the one with skis. Thank you for sharing them.
Regards
Massimo
Thanks, Massimo! It's not easy to find good clear photos of destroyed Yak-1's that haven't been vandalized by souvenir hunters; I really like this apparently silver-grey or aluminum-painted, ski-equipped one, which I think I posted in another thread some time ago, but it's not much use - the fabric has been taken off where the number would have been:
Will we see photos of your Yak-1 model?
John
