Yak 18 reference.

[Ioaea]

For anyone who's modelling or intends to model the Trumpeter 32nd or Amodel 72nd trainer, an interesting find is the original? flight manual scan -probably the best page is:-

http://yak18.boom.ru/book056.htm

Which shows front cockpit detail, although an illustration only. Bear in mind this is for the original Yak 18 not the 18A or suchlike.

Cheers.

Edit: Also take a peek at http://yak18.boom.ru/sar00.htm for some shots of a Yak 1 and Yak 3. Interesting.

[Dark Green Man]

Thanks for the links !

I have been considering the Amodel Yak-18
not sure if I'll do a red one or the NKAF machine.....
the 1/32 is WAAAY to big for my shelves.

[Ioaea]

Ah, DGM. The Amodel 18. Don't get me wrong, there's something very endearing about the 18, but this kit's engine nacelle is something akin to a sculpture by Tony Hancock. Not Tate Gallery material, anyway.

I bought two of 'em and both were the same, pretty bad. You may like to hack off the front end of a Yak 52 and replace for an 18A or U. Fun. The Yak 5 prototype is another possibility if you're a masochist and simply must have an M-11FR type. Why? Because it'd be a very ugly model and it would turn heads.

Edit: If you want to really model the all-red 18 in all *its* ugliness, forget the spinner. You'd then have the immense joy of making some spinner attachment thingies on yonder prop hub.

[Dark Green Man]

OH ! you are a sadist!
just a little light-hearted humor. LOL

actually I wish they had been smart enough to do the Yak-18PM instead of the initial model.
but the trick is to do the Korean war version to go with the Yak-9P,Tu-2,La-9 and La-11

[Ioaea]

Naa.

Have a nice shot of an 18 in what looks like silver dope/natural aluminium on display on a pair of massive concrete blocks, dated 1948. It's uglier without the red.

The concrete bloks are paragons of beauty really, by comparison.

I love this plane. Truly. : )

[Dark Green Man]

you have a strange eye for beauty.

LOL

 

[Ioaea]

Yessir.

You wouldn't happen to have anything interesting on the Yak 11, would you, DGM?

Ta.

[Dark Green Man]

MMM

very little I'm afraid
(that will have to change later though)
do you have "Yak fighters in action" ?

the Yak-11 is a mutilation of the Yak-3 in case you didn't know.

if you can do Cyrillic fonts then simply type in Yak-11(in Cyrillic) into your favorite search engine and you might get some interesting results.

then there is always Altavista's Babelfish for translations from Russian to English.

[Ioaea]

the Yak-11 is a mutilation of the Yak-3 in case you didn't know.

Yeah, it has a LA front-end. Mutilated, as you say. 

[Dark Green Man]

also a section of the wing was taken out of the middle.

  Як-11

just copy/paste that into Babelfish

http://www.babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr

and don't forget to copy/paste this one in too

http://mkmagazin.almanacwhf.ru/avia/yak_11.htm

[Ioaea]

also a section of the wing was taken out of the middle.

  Як-11

just copy/paste that into Babelfish

http://www.babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr

and don't forget to copy/paste this one in too

http://mkmagazin.almanacwhf.ru/avia/yak_11.htm

Ah, grand.

I see there's an AIR-6 in one of these links. There was a model being sold on ebay a month or so ago -looke very much like the AIR-6, but with a name that was unidentifiable/incomprehensible -eastern european origin though.. More I look at it, it might well have been an opportunity missed. 

Thanks, DGM.