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Title: Future Release Yak-9 Kits Post by: John Thompson on September 24, 2021, 05:01:57 PM It was revealed at a recent toy and hobby expo in Russia that the following will be released in 2022:
Yak-9 - 1/72 - Zvezda Yak-9 - 1/48 - Zvezda Yak-9 - 1/32 - ICM A kit to please everyone's scale preference, if all of them are produced. I expect more details might appear on Scalemodels.ru at some point, but I haven't taken more than a quick look so far, and I probably looked in the wrong subforum. Needless to say, I'm quite glad to see the 1/72 announcement! I'm guessing it will be part of Zvezda's easy-assembly series; if so, it will probably be a Yak-9D, with no chance of other VK-105 variants, but it's very welcome and converting it to a Yak-9T should be possible, depending on how the kit is designed. Who knows - maybe they'll include two fuselages in the kit, like ICM did, long ago. Maybe this will even inspire other manufacturers to cut themselves a slice of the 1/72 Yak-9 pie! :D John Title: Re: Future Release Yak-9 Kits Post by: Massimo Tessitori on September 25, 2021, 06:42:49 AM Hi John,
this is really a good thing. Yak-9 was much neglected. Both firms have a good quality to price ratio. I agree on your expectations about the offered variants, at least for the next future. Then I hope that fuselages for other variants will be offered in some ways. Massimo Title: Re: Future Release Yak-9 Kits Post by: Psy06 on September 25, 2021, 06:45:18 AM It was revealed at a recent toy and hobby expo in Russia that the following will be released in 2022: Сan you give a link to the source? I could not find anything that could confirm your wordsYak-9 - 1/72 - Zvezda Yak-9 - 1/48 - Zvezda Yak-9 - 1/32 - ICM A kit to please everyone's scale preference, if all of them are produced. I expect more details might appear on Scalemodels.ru at some point, but I haven't taken more than a quick look so far, and I probably looked in the wrong subforum. Needless to say, I'm quite glad to see the 1/72 announcement! I'm guessing it will be part of Zvezda's easy-assembly series; if so, it will probably be a Yak-9D, with no chance of other VK-105 variants, but it's very welcome and converting it to a Yak-9T should be possible, depending on how the kit is designed. Who knows - maybe they'll include two fuselages in the kit, like ICM did, long ago. Maybe this will even inspire other manufacturers to cut themselves a slice of the 1/72 Yak-9 pie! :D John Title: Re: Future Release Yak-9 Kits Post by: John Thompson on September 25, 2021, 02:36:50 PM I got it from three threads by "Aardvark" and "Homebee" on Britmodeller's Rumourmonger forum:
1:32: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235099630-132-yakovlev-yak-9-family-by-icm-from-2022/ 1/48: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235099644-yakovlev-yak-9-148-from-zvezda-in-2022/ 1/72: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235099642-yakovlev-yak-9-172-from-zvezda-in-2022/ John Title: Re: Future Release Yak-9 Kits Post by: Psy06 on September 25, 2021, 05:30:23 PM I got it from three threads by "Aardvark" and "Homebee" on Britmodeller's Rumourmonger forum: Thanx. 1:32: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235099630-132-yakovlev-yak-9-family-by-icm-from-2022/ 1/48: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235099644-yakovlev-yak-9-148-from-zvezda-in-2022/ 1/72: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235099642-yakovlev-yak-9-172-from-zvezda-in-2022/ John It is mentioned here that there are technical problems with the 48 scale but no details http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_p_1699913.html#1699913 Title: Re: Future Release Yak-9 Kits Post by: John Thompson on December 07, 2021, 02:39:29 AM No details posted yet, but here's the Scalemates page for the Zvezda 1/48 Yak-9:
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/zvezda-48xz-yakovlev-yak-9--1376098 And for the 1/72 Yak-9 kit: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/zvezda-73xx-yakovlev-yak-9--1376095 The "73" part of the kit number is NOT an indication that it's in Zvezda's easy-assembly series - I was wrong about that! :-[ (The kit could still be easy-build, or it could be the first in a whole series of Yak-9 variants! But probably not...) John |