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LaGG-3 ( Alex
Ruchkovsky ). "609 IAP, Pilot V.Mironov, summer 1942. Kit:
Toko 1:72. Corrected: outline of wing , shape of oil cooler intake and cowl
and sections of rear fuselage. Replaced sliding canopy. Scratchbuilt interiors.
ELF wheels. All markings airbrushed."
LaGG-3 ( Bill
Arnold ). 1/72 Toko/Roden LaGG-3 ("Series 66"), built OOB. Bill
added seat belts and applied an oil paint wash over a coat of Future.
LaGG-3 ( Clarence
Wentzel ). This is the Toko kit finished as a "Series 1".
LaGG-3, 'Lightened and Improved' ( Erik
Pilawskii ). "I've always wanted to do a model of Yuri Shipov's
("White 43") late series LaGG-3 'White 43', and so I took the occasion to build
my last copy of the older Dakoplast 'Series 66' kit as this machine. Decals
came from a newer Toko sheet, and the model was finished in an AMT-11/-12 livery
common for the 9 IAP ChF. There is debate as to whether Shipov's LaGG carried
a star marking on the fin; I chose to omit this for the time being."
LaGG-3, Early Series ( Erik
Pilawskii ). "This early Series four-gun Gor'ky built machine was
photographed north of Leningrad in service with the 145 IAP, ca. Spring 1942;
pilot is unknown. It wears the classic Zavod 21 'banded application' of the
time in Green/Black, and the windscreen framing appears to have been left unpainted.
The rudder has obviously been painted in the field, and no effort has been made
to rectify the bisected star on the fin. I used an example of the pre-Toko LaGG-3
kit mold manufactured by ICM for this model, and although the surface detail
was outstanding and similar to the former, the fit in this case was somewhat
unrefined."
LaGG-3, Obl. ( Erik
Pilawskii ). This machine shows off the VVS southern scheme of Black
over Sand Brown to good effect. The kit is the wonderfully detailed Dakoplast
LaGG-3 "Series 66", built completely OOB (a few panel details were added by
pencil). This model represents "Blue-Green 2" of Alexei A. Boguslavsky of the
93 IAP, Black Sea Fleet.
LaGG-3, Obl. ( Erik
Pilawskii ). "Another Dakoplast 'Series 66' kit, OOB. First, I apologize
for the horrid photography, which makes this hard to see. This unusual scheme
is a bit of conjecture. The subject is the curious late model LaGG-3 of the
88 IAP pictured on p.25 of Red
Stars . The machine has obviously been re-painted recently, and
there are three distinct colors present on this aircraft. The exact pattern
of application was gleaned from a photograph of another similar-looking 88 IAP
LaGG-3. The colors involved were rather baffling at first, but after analysis
it occurred to me that what might have been done was that this unit seems to
have over-sprayed the Dark Green areas
of the scheme with Ochre. An explanation for this behavior might stem from the
fact that the 88 IAP spent most of the latter half of 1943 engaged very heavily
in escorting Il-2s, aircraft which would then be wearing the new Ochre/Olive
scheme introduced in 1943 at Zavod 18;
perhaps they felt it was prudent to have matching camouflage colors? All decals
were printed on an ALPS-1000, and I see that the inscriptions came out a bit
small. Hopefully I will correct this in future and take some better pictures...."
LaGG-3, Series 4 ( Ilya Grinberg ). A very nice example of the early LaGG-4 "White 44", completed with the superb Toko (originally ISM) kit. "LaGG-3 is of 44 IAP as shown at Red Stars on page 25, and Sovetskie Istrebiteli on page 29. Look at the sliding canopy-- it is removed! This is an ICM (!) kit that was never oficially announced and later sold to TOKO. The kit is out of the box, the front canopy is Falcon vacuumform. The machineguns are from fine tubing and pitot tube from fine tubing are added."
LaGG-3 ( István Vadász ). 1/72 LAGG-3 series 35 Dakoplast built out of the box, painted according to the assembly drawing with Humbrol paints. The plane was flown by Captain G.A.Grigoriev 6. IAC PVO Moscow 1942.
LaGG-3 ( Shawn Lynch ). This is the Toko kit finished as a "Series 1". Here is a complete explanation of everything done to the kit.
LaGG-3 ( Matt
Bittner ). This is the Toko kit finished as an "Early Series"
machine. There are more images of the model in the full
build article.