Hi,
for those who remember last year I began building a 1/48 South Front Yak-1. It was supposed to be Baranov's.
Unfortunately disaster struck and I had to strip it and repaint it. Obviously without Baranov's decoration I had to find another one.
I finally choose bort 27 from the 255 IAP, summer 1942.
While researching for a photo I found this:
What was surprising was the infos attached ot it.
Here's the translation:
"Yak 1 to the Murmansk region. Yak-1 bort number 27 of 255 IAP Murmansk.
Initially aircraft belonged to 20 IAP then, after repair in 18 workshop VVS-SF it was transmitted in 255 IAP.
Aircraft is completely recolored in the workshops during the repair, but bort number is restored in the previous style.
In the workshops at that time was passed the repair of [kharikeyny] and this yak obtained the fields of the camo almost in the style of RAF.
It is remarkable, that the spread of camouflage on it made by hand with the rags (or brush) of that dipped into the paint in the form of? frequent spots on the boundary of the separation of color.
However, this version of the spread of the kamo is present on I -153 this GO of the region of [bd] (apparently they overhauled and they colored there) "
There was one picture showing that this kind of "dots" camo was done on Yaks too.
Here's some pics of the end result:
Jean
