It has been a long time ago, but progress has been made. i was working around the clock to finnish the plane before the Dutch IPMS contest. i didn't made it, but that's OK. Now i have the time to work on it, without any haste. Because i worked every free minute on it, i have a lot to show....
All fitted...
I painted the Yak in AMT-4 Green, AMT-6 black and the belly AMT-7 blue. Colours are from Akan. It was a challenge to cover the maintenance hatches on the sides. I used some sponge material and locked it with some wire to hold it in to place.
Unfortunately the numbers are not correct. After reading Xan's topic, i decided i go for number 30. This special numbering i don't have for planes, but i have rub-on decals for Soviet tanks. The 1/35 numbering fits the size of the numbers on the plane. Lucky me! I have the 0, but not the 3. After some mix and matching, i could make the 3 from cutting up the 6 and 7 digits
...and it works!
But disaster strikes. When i wanted to add the last decals of the sharkmouth, it fragmented in pieces. Although i was devastated, i had two options. Buy another decal sheet and hope for the best, or spray the sharkmouth on the model. this is uncharted territory for me, but i wanted to give it a try.
First i had to make the shape of the mouth...
...sprayed it all white...
...taped the teeth and on to the red...
...and then the black outlining.
I was happy with the results.
And then i was off to the winter camouflagge. This was a difficult thing, but i am convinced by KL's saying about beeing a disruptive camouflage instead of weathered off winter camouflage. so i sprayed a very light layer of Vallejo white with the airbrush. I used Panzerputty for a soft ege look...
...then i went with the oils of 502 Abteilung faded UN white
And this is the story so far. I hope you like it!
Remco