mus?e de l'air, great new: The Yak-3 is beeing restored

[mholly]

the original red of the star looks altered. So, other colors could be altered too

Massimo,
What do you mean by "altered"? Paints "age" regardless of elements, especially nitro-cellulose ones, it's called thermal aging, or deterioration
if you wish. What we see already is in the line with "Russian research" i.e. pretty dark tones. B&w (even some color) pix never supported this.
I'm curious what would Pilawskii say. Krakow museum Yak-3 "in original VVS paints" is much lighter!
Cheers,
Mario

[Massimo Tessitori]

Hi Mario,
those paints are aged, that is obvious. As each and every chip that we can find in after 70 years.
Of course, I'm not discussing that the original new colors were dark, usually colors become lighter with ageing, not darker. But it's likely that the red wasn't so when new. In my idea, this should give some peace to those that are too willing to know the exact original shade: it's lost forever. Unless you find the can that Pilawskii found at Monino...
Regards
Massimo

[bbrought]

I would be very interested to see whether EP will change his colour chart after seeing this. His AMT-7 is clearly nowhere near what is seen on this Yak. Here is the latest version of his digital colour chips:

http://www.redbanner.co.uk/History/il2guide/colour-samples.htm

On the other hand, the Akan interpretation seems very close, if just very slightly dark.

[John Thompson]

A bit more on the Yak-3 restoration, with some good detail photos:
http://www.pyperpote.tonsite.biz/listinmae/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=201%3Ayak-3&catid=35%3Ales-reserves-du-musee-de-lair&Itemid=55&limitstart=1

John

[learstang]

Thank you for the link, John - that's a great closeup of the PBP-1 gunsight!

Regards,

Jason

[John Thompson]

The Yak-3 restoration photo page has been updated recently:
http://www.pyperpote.tonsite.biz/listinmae/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=201%3Ayak-3&catid=35%3Ales-reserves-du-musee-de-lair&Itemid=55&limitstart=1

John