Yakovlev Yak-6

Yak-6

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1:72 Scale (Christoph Riesen):  "I got this kit in the mid 80's from a friend in the Soviet Union, long before the Zvezda kit was on the market.It is a pretty basic injection kit in 72nd scale, but quite easy to build. The kit comes with an instruction leaflet with several painting alternatives. There were two kit versions available, one on wheels only, the other one with skis and wheels with a winter camouflage pattern. I decided for the black top liaison aircraft version, for it to stand out between all the two and three color camouflage aircraft. The kit is moulded in white plastic in  moderate level of quality. It needs a lot of cleaning work, detailing is rough, small parts like the engines, antenna and landing dear are rather basic. The decals are sort of very simple but can do the job, nevertheless I would recommend to change them for a better decal sheet. The fit though is not too bad, and with some extra detailing work one can make a nice model out of it."