YAK-15 - work in progress



Built and painted.  Not too bad.

This is one of the PM kits I picked up recently at Telford.  A small box contained a modest number of parts - rather in the manner of an old Airfix series 1 kit.  Given that the YAK retails for £1.99 I was prepared to forgive a few faults!  

I did use some filler, but the only significant problem was the fit (it didn't!) of the canopy.  The technique I adopted involved much trimming, sanding, cursing and finally - filling.

No pilot figure was supplied, and as there were no suitable candidates in the spares box I decided to build the model 'wheels down'. If anyone has a load of spare 1/72 pilots I'd be pleased to hear about it!

The box and it's contents.

The PM kits seem to have a variety of origins.  I think this one might be what we used to call East European.

The parts fit was OK, but not perfect - again think old Airfix.

There were a few bits of flash to remove - but not much - and the pilot's chair resembles those fitted in the 1970s Hillman Avenger.