Tony's Lavochkin La-5

[Guest]

No worries Tony, plenty of time and a new kitchen is always nice ;-)

[Guest]

hi tony. what a crazy kit. it looks quite fiddley?! hope it all goes well.

[Guest]

Hope to start again later next week..

Tony

[tr1ckey66]

Hi Tony

That airframe looks really cool. Hope all goes well with your new kitchen and you can get back to building Russian fighters!

Cheers

P

[Guest]

So do I as I have just brought another La-5 and a La-7. I wont be using the PE kit for this La-5,need some practice with it.

Tony

[AlanG]

Tony. What PE kit did you buy? I have been looking at this resin kit for the one you are building.

Vector Scale Resin Model Engines

[Guest]

Awaiting delivery of the PE kit,it is the one from Eduards. Not sure which one I have ordered now,will check later on.

Tony..

[Guest]

A small update with the build. Now I have the airbrush and compressor running I can build the La-5 alittle quicker. Some pics of what I have done so far.

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Advice and comments most welcome.

Tony..

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[tr1ckey66]

Looking really good Tony, keep up the great work!

Paul

[Guest]

Thank you Paul,its taking shape now.

Tony..

[yak face]

hi tony, i missed this one back in july and ive just seen it now, these recent zvezda 1/48 releases have got some rave reviews and they look superb. Looks like yours is coming along great, cant wait to see it progress. I notice its the early version of the la5 so is it going to be in the all over green over blue , there werent alot of colourful schemes for the earlier aircraft except for the 3rd GV IAP baltic fleet one flown by Dimitry Kostylev with the great big toothed mouth -(the plane not him!!) Keep up the good work ,looking forward to seeing her done, cheers tony

[Guest]

Looks like I may have to do some digging on the paint scheme for this kit. It has 3 paint schemes on the instructions. "White 60" 3rd IAK May 1943,"White 23"240IAP Aug 1942 and "White 04" 4th IAP 1943 flown by V.M.Dmitriev. Will do a bit more tonight all going well.

Cheers

Tony..

[yak face]

Have a look at this link tony, its got dozens of links to other sites all to do with russian aircraft, very useful. cheers tony links to VVS, Soviet and Russian aircraft sites

[Guest]

Thank you Tony for the link,I could spend all night looking..

Tony..

[Guest]

Well did a bit more to the La-5,its starting to look like an aircraft..

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Its getting there slowly.

Advice and comments most welcome..

Tony..

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