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This is the old Heller kit in 1/72,raised details, but very well done. Good fabric effects where required. I drilled out the exhaust ports & added some stretched sprue there. It was also my first attempt at rigging with stretched sprue, a little thick perhaps but I was happy with it. (yes, I tackled it in 1/72, I'm slightly masochistic I suppose). Kit decals were a little rough and off-register, I trimmed the excess red from the stars and used them, all other decals were scrounged from an older Hasegawa Yak-3, so, not correct, but I just HAD to use that Cyrillic script somewhere.
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For those requiring a little something in the photo for scale, y'all know what Cuban coins look like right? RIGHT??!?
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Oh, you don't?? Maybe something Canadian, ehh.
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And sitting with it's new BIPLANE BUDDIE
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Similar span, Polikarpov a little shorter
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Merci monsieur Heller!