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Building the AModel 1/48 Yak-50

By Denzil Charles

few months ago, I placed an order with ModelsUA for a few kits, including AModel's 1/48 Yak-52. Unfortunately, they shipped the Yak-50 instead. Easy mistake to make, and Models UA made good on the error.

So, I ended up with a Yak-50 in the stash!

Not one to let a kit go to waste, and as it fits in with my civilian fleet, I thought it'd be a fun quick little build.

After a looking at pics of the real thing, I wasn't happy with how the kit depicted the rear cockpit coaming. So that was duly modified.

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Before

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After

With the cockpit opening more, uh, opened, it looked a bit bare. Nothing some plasticard and wire can't fix.

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So far so good.

The kit canopy was slightly wider than the fuselage, so I made a plaster mold and vacformed a new one.

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I wanted to try something mentioned on the ScaleModelPaintMask forum, using the Cameo cutter to cut Bare Metal Foil.

Success!

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Here are the settings I used

Finally, the Cameo came out to again to make paint masks.

Painted with MRP White and Signal red.

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Kit decals were used, and they're perfectly adequate.

I found the kit supplied wheels looked far too large, so I subbed in wheels from a 1/72 P-51. After that was the usual little details like rudder trim tab, brake lines, pitot and antenna etc.

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And she was finished!