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Greg Baker (strobez)
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AREA 88: Yak-38 (A.G.F.)

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The box shot, of course. 
 

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Sprues look pretty clean. Not sure about those decals though, they look pretty old. 
 

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Just started cutting and glueing some bits together. No idea what the purpose of that engine is. You can't see it at all on the inside. 
 

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Added a firewall and angled the rear of the cockpit to be more realistic. The canopy won't close now, but that's okay. 
 

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Added some interior details to the cockpit. 
 

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Added a dashboard. 
 

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Not sure I can fit anything else in there. 
 

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Cut open the air intakes and boxed them off. 
 

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Repurposed Spad XIII wheels will work as lower fans... I hope. 
 

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Got some colour down. Wasn't sure what colour I wanted to do the cockpit, but Tamiya XF-71 seemed a good choice when in doubt. 
 

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Added modified decals from an Academy F-8E Crusader to the cockpit and cut out the secondary vents on the air intakes. 
 

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Glued together... 
 

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Need to adjust the vents and the fans. 
 

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Putty and sanding. 
 

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Ok... the primer is on. 
 

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Let's see if we can get the undershading to work... 
 

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Paint on... undershading nowhere to be seen. 
 

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Decals on, but they're so old they're silvering. 
 

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Cockpit could be better... but I can live with it. 
 

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Comments

2 2 March 2017, 14:08
John Thomas
Greg, Nice start. Glad to see some added detail
5 March 2017, 15:35
Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Good work so far , congrats
5 March 2017, 16:08
Ekki
Following.
5 March 2017, 17:08
Greg Baker
Thanks Guys! I sprayed the cockpit with Tamiya primer to get ready to paint it, but it went all runny on me for some reason, so I think I need to clean it off and try again.
7 March 2017, 13:29
Marcel Klemmer
I am in.
7 March 2017, 20:28
Greg Baker
After a bit of a break due to work-related travel, I'm back at it. Not much of an update, but got some paint down on the cockpit and the air intakes.
14 March 2017, 01:29
Greg Baker
Well... it's done... enough. This project was a Murphy's law of errors. I'm not sure why, but the painting was a mess, i kept getting these little sparkles... I killed a bunch of the decals... including the control panel... sigh... sometimes done is done. I still like this weird plane, so I may have another crack at it someday if I run across another kit.
26 August 2017, 12:15
Stephan Ryll
Good lookin bird 👍
26 August 2017, 12:22
Greg Baker
Hey Thanks, Stephan!
26 August 2017, 15:51
Choppa Nutta
cool
26 August 2017, 15:53
Ekki
Very nice work.
26 August 2017, 16:10
Matthew A
Mean looking ship
6 November 2019, 10:04
Greg Baker
Thanks guys. I took this one down off the shelf to clean up and finish off a few things. The main thing was adding the numbers. The decals were so ancient and fragile that the first 4 attempts ended in defeat. I originally wanted a red "31" but after killing all the 3s I had to settle for yellow 21 instead. Putting the decals one was like brain surgery, so I don't even care that they silvered pretty badly.
6 November 2019, 13:31
Nils Steyaert
looks good, nicely done 👍
7 November 2019, 16:50

Project info

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Completed
1:72 Yak-38 Forger (Tsukuda Hobby S04-1300)

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