Andrews's 1/48 Eduard ProfiPACK Yak-3

[adt70hk]

Looks great, all that work in the cockpit, although mostly not seen, just satisfying knowing it's there. Gonna be a beauty,nice one.

Thanks Ritchie....it is nice to know it is there and at least I have figured out a better way to do some of it next time!

ATB

Andrew

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good Andy. Hope you feel better soon as well.

[Waspie]

Wow, I missed this build. Nice work Andrew, agree with the others, primer looks the business.

[Valeron]

Looking really good Andrew. And like everyone says, a very smooth finish on the primer.

[Geoffers]

Just catching up with your build Andrew :thumb2:

Nice cockpit details and good scratch work, you now the missing part is bound to turn up anytime now :tears-of-joy:

Geoff.

[adt70hk]

OK chaps...so the base paint blotches are on.

As it a blue and grey paint scheme I simply used the underside AMT-7 Light blue for them.

Although this is only the 6th plane I have done using the black basing technique, I love it. Given that you can vary the size and density of the blotches and then how much paint you lay down over the top, they is a huge range of effects you can achieve.

Although it wasn't my intention, I seem to have done tighter, denser blotches on the underside and larger ones with less definition on the top. It will be interesting to see how they turn out.

This was also my first time using AK 3rd Gen and although I still need to have a play around, I was quite pleased with how it worked.

ACW as usual.

Andrew

[adt70hk]

Looking good Andy. Hope you feel better soon as well.

Wow, I missed this build. Nice work Andrew, agree with the others, primer looks the business.

Looking really good Andrew. And like everyone says, a very smooth finish on the primer.

Just catching up with your build Andrew :thumb2:

Nice cockpit details and good scratch work, you now the missing part is bound to turn up anytime now :tears-of-joy:

Geoff.

Thanks chaps! Glad you're liking it. I was pleased with how smooth the primer went down, very pleased indeed!


Tim - feeling better thanks. Just a cold, nothing major just left me feeling very tired.

Geoff - of course it will....probably in about a year! I just have to hope now that the scratch one fits ok!! :cold-sweat:


Thanks again all


ATB

Andrew

[JR]

Glad you are feeling better Andrew, hate this time of the year for infections etc .
Your doing well , like the replacement support , nice .

[papa 695]

Just seen this one Andrew, some cracking work going on.

[yak face]

Nice work andrew , the cockpit looks great and the scratched undercarriage link is excellent . Looking forward to the paint going on , cheers tony

[adt70hk]

Glad you are feeling better Andrew, hate this time of the year for infections etc .
Your doing well , like the replacement support , nice .

Just seen this one Andrew, some cracking work going on.

Nice work andrew , the cockpit looks great and the scratched undercarriage link is excellent . Looking forward to the paint going on , cheers tony

Thanks chaps for the support and apologies for the delay in coming back to you!

As you can see there has been an update!

ATB

Andrew

[adt70hk]

Hi all

So Monday evening, I manage to get the blue underside down but not had the chance to post a picture before. As with previous builds, I've kept the mottling fairly subtle.

Apologies but it was taken in a rush, so is not the best shot.

I've actually just finished applying the top side camo but it is drying at the moment.

ACW as usual!

ATB

Andrew

[Guest]

Good evening all

So given this is mine and Kar's GB, it is with some embarrassment I finally join the rest of you that have started out so quickly!

So this is the first Eduard kit I have ever built, which of course makes it the first ProfiPACK kit too.

I had intended to a Weekend edition as my first Eduard kit but all the planes in the stash that fitted the bill were ProfiPACKs, so this will be a baptism of fire with all that nice PE!!

The kit itself is a 2011 reboxing of a 1998 tooling and aside from no locator pins (I understand this was a mark of early Eduard kits), it has gone together well so far. A loose dry fit of the taped up fuselage shows it is a MUCH better fit than the Raiden, although the instructions are not clear on a couple of points

Luckily it only has 53 parts, so PE aside it should hopefully be reasonably straight forward. It's obviously not up there with their latest offerings but it looks ok to my eyes on the sprue.

ATB

Andrew


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The obligatory box art and other shots!





















So this was as far as I got at model club on Tuesday night.

Following with interest - I only really do German planes but am a Eduard fan - will wait to see how you deal with ‘micro PE’!

[Guest]

Good morning all

So I managed to get some primer on for the cockpit areas at the weekend and then got the base coat down - albeit I did it twice as I wasn't quite happy with the colour.

In terms of the 'correct' colour, knowing nothing about Soviet colours my initial research discovered Yak-3 cockpits "should" be AKAN A-14, a mid-grey. A couple of website suggest Humbrol 27 or 140 as close-ish matches. Vallejo 70.992 Neutral Grey is not that far off Humbrol 27.

However, the instructions call for a yellow colour, which I discovered was the primer which should but was not always used - apparently - see here.

In the the end I plumped for a mix of Vallejo 70.992 Neutral Grey and Vallejo 71.259 Violet Grey RLM 75....it looks ok to my eye.

For bare PE I have used good old Halfords rattle can car primer....Vallejo primer can be a bit iffy on PE. The air intake grills got a coat of Vallejo's Metal Colour 77.712 Steel. If anyone is after a water based metallic paint, these are simply outstanding and spray beautifully!

All comments welcome as usual!

Andrew



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For some reason the way the light catches the cockpit area has wiped out all the detail but it is there.

Ah! Keep PE on sprues and spray. Great tip for me!

[Andy T]

Paintwork is looking great Andrew :thumb2: