Hi Massimo,
Another LaGG-3 in 1/48 after the ICM? Why don't they use their efforts to make something that is really needed?
I might be wrong but if my memory serves me well , ICM is a bit too small, maybe 1/50 while SF is too big.
As for being a copy of SF, I don't know but Yak-1b from Modelsvit was quite like Accurate miniatures with corrected dimensions.
We'll see.
Jean
Interesting Jean.
Can you remember where you saw this, as this is new too me.
I'll have to check, as I think I have a SF LaGG3 as well as a ICM one....but not to hand.
As for a new Yak -9, yes...but which subtype? ....
Maybe Zvezda will do the right thing.
Regarding the Yak-1 from SF and Modelsvit, I read somewhere that the Modelsvit just added new sprues to the SF kit. I may be wrong, and i do have both, again, not to hand.
More things to sit down and check if I ever remember.
Regarding the Modelsvit vs AM Yak-1 kits, I don't know there was problem with theAM kit dimension, but with some details, like the canopy and the square inner framework.
Jean, [and anyone else] the only real critique of various Yak kits is here
http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/yak179/yaks-matvienko/yaks-matvienko.htmIt's useful, to a point, in as much as I'd describe the assessment of the various kits as bordering on hysteria, and not really dealing with what is of use and what needs correcting, or even how too, which is a pity as this would make this a real useful article.
I think many of the 'faults' are correctible with some modelling skills.
Also, it does not include the SF and Modelsvit kits. The general opinion is that the Modelsvit was the best so far, though I have not seen a hardcore assement of the Zvezda Yak-3
[somewhere here there is a link to correcting the Eduard Yak-3 on Scalemodels.ru IIRC]
The breakdown of the Yak variants is really useful though.
I have meant to do something like this, as I have all the kits mentioned, but, I'm a lazy perfectionist... I know once I start it will eat up a big chunk of time.
I did do some kit comparisons, and the LTD Yak-9 compared very well to the Modelsvit kit from what I remember.
cheers
T