New colors for Iribarne's last yak-3 Normandie-Niemen 11/02/1945

[xan]

This was the first kid I did about the Normandie-Niemen. The basque Pilot  Robert Iribarne



I like this model, and more the pilot Robert Iribarne, basque as I am, but the paints were not accurate at all...
So I repeinted it.
Some d?tails are not finished but I did some pics to show you:















I did before the same thing for his firdt plane a Yak-9 one





Xan

[66misos]

Hi Xan,
You made a good decission about repainting. I like that dark (-er) appearance. Your kits looks much better now, more like war machines.
Did you use Akan without lightening (for scale effect)?

    66misos

[learstang]

Very nice jobs, Xan!

Regards,

Jason

[xan]

Did you use Akan without lightening (for scale effect)?

No I didn't.
 the colors pics os the risso plane in le Bourget taken in 194 are dark, so are the colors of the yak-3 in restoration of Paris (the only WWII yak-3 in museum).


I have no other reference. So, with my friend Pascal, we took the choise, to apply the Akan colors as they are....
Xan

[xan]

here's another pic with the diorama:



I'm thinking in doing again the diorama to represent better the mud who was everywhere in Powunden (oriental Prusia) the day Iribarna went down.

Xan

[xan]

five more pics with mud on the fuselage:

[learstang]

Very nice diorama, Xan!

Regards,

Jason

[KL]

Hi Xan,
congratulations, another excellent model!  All your AMT colours are very convincing.
Diorama is also nice, although IMHO mud looks a bit out of scale. 

... the colors pics os the risso plane in le Bourget taken in 194 are dark, so are the colors of the yak-3 in restoration of Paris (the only WWII yak-3 in museum).

Just FYI, all yak-3s preserved in museums are WWII planes:
-  Yeromenko's Yak-3 preserved in OKB Yakovlev's museum (sold to Americans) is a very early model with one UBS made in summer 1944
-  le Bourget Yak-3 was made in December 1944
-  Yugoslav Yak-3 preserved in Belgrade was made in 1945, before VJ-day.

Cheers,
KL   

[Massimo Tessitori]

Hi Xan,
I'm very in doubt that mud can reach the fuselage in such quantity. Eventually the tail.
There is nearly no mud on the wheels.
Regards
Massimo

[xan]

congratulations, another excellent model!  All your AMT colours are very convincing.

Think you mister K , you know that your opinion is important for me  

Just FYI, all yak-3s preserved in museums are WWII planes:
-  Yeromenko's Yak-3 preserved in OKB Yakovlev's museum (sold to Americans) is a very early model with one UBS made in summer 1944
-  le Bourget Yak-3 was made in December 1944
-  Yugoslav Yak-3 preserved in Belgrade was made in 1945, before VJ-day.

Sorry, I thought that the other yak-3 were post-war planes with metal wings...

IMHO mud looks a bit out of scale.

After a week of snow , it rained a lot in Powunden the day before Iribarne took off the last time, and according to the regiment diary, the place had mud every where (sory i don't find the worlds in english).
So I decided to try weathering of mud.

I'm very in doubt that mud can reach the fuselage in such quantity. Eventually the tail.

Oh yes it can!
look at those pics





are you still in doubt?  

There is nearly no mud on the wheels.

you're wright! I'm just trying I don't know very well where I am going to.
But  you're wrignt , I will get the wheels dirtyer!

down the plane , I 'm put a lot of mud too (with the agreement of a profesionel pilot who is modeler in my french forum.



take a look at those pics:
the way the plane get dearty:

in this case the mud goes everywhere under the wing.
a rusian video:
http://www.koreus.com/video/avion-decollage-boue.html

a dearty typhoon:



see that mud goes to the wings too:


Anyway I 'm not a pilot and those are only interpretation, but I'm heaving a big fun!!!

Xan