Yak 28; Contrail vacform 1/72

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Yak 28; Contrail vacform 1/72

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Here's a blast from the cold war past. The Contrail vacform kit of the Yak 28 is a bit out of my normal run of builds, but it came as part of a job lot of kits that I recently bought for very little. It was the only vacform kit in the lot, so I had to build it first.

The transparent parts had yellowed beyond redemption so I had to make new ones. The kit had no instructions - they were missing from the box. The result is that I am left with two small pod-shaped parts and I have no idea where they should go. All ideas gratefully received.

The colour scheme is 'illustrative' of some that were in camouflage, though most were in natural metal. I just didn't fancy natural metal on this one.

It takes me back to the days of 'The Observer's Book of Aircraft' in the 1960s.

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What a brute of an aircraft, a real cold war warrior.

Super model build mate.
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Awesome - love it! Great work on the clear parts too.

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Nice work. Those older jets sure look cool.
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Excellent work, Vacant, this is a proper bit of Soviet Cold War jet-tech. Looks good in the camo scheme.
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I am not nor,all a fan of aoircraft with holes in the back but this one could help me to change my mind. Good work indeed especially as you had no instructions to follow.
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One of my favourite aircraft! A pleasure to see a new build of this sexy shape - and there are so many variations.
I have a couple of scary 1/72 A-Model varieties in the stash, and waiting for a camo version of the new Bobcat 1/48 kit.

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That's a superb bit work Vacant. What a brute!
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A great scheme on a rugged looking aircraft.

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Very nice bit of work, particularly from a vacform. Never had much luck with them myself.

The big question is, is this a Firebar or a Brewer? With that nose, I suspect the latter, though one has to wonder about the AAMs under the wings -- are those AA-2 Atolls?

You should think about getting a Yak-128 Fiddler to keep it company -- if someone makes a kit of the -128.
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One always gets caught out! The easy one first are the weapons. They are AA-7 Apex IR Version. The kit came with two of these missiles in cast metal. They were rather crude and would have taken a lot of work to clean them up. By chance, I had recently bought a box of Soviet ordnance as part of a job lot. It contained two injection missiles that matched the cast metal ones, so I used them. I can not, however, claim that I could find a photo of a camouflaged Yak 28 carrying these weapons, though some photos do show what look like the racks to which they are attached.

As for the colour scheme, I used the Wings Palette site and a site on which Polly Singh has built a Yak 28. Neither site gives the exact type, i.e. whether Brewer, Broussard, Firebar or Maestro. This is why I made sure to say that the colour scheme was 'illustrative', my euphemism for c'ould be completely wrong'! I have no specialist knowledge of the type so I am in no position to know. This is why it's always good when someone is able to make helpful comments to clear up my oceans of ignorance.
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Accuracy of the weapon fit out and scheme aside, that's a cracking looking build.
I for one wouldn't know the difference between the variants so I'm just happy to see great modelling :grin:
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Judging by the extent of the nose glazing, the inboard wing fences and the pointed slipper tanks, this looks like a Yak-28B Brewer-A. But that was a tactical bomber and would not be carrying air-to-air missiles.
I could be wrong!
Lovely model, anyway!

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It's probably fairly safe to assume that the weapons load is wrong - from what I can see in various sources, I think those particular large weapons seem to have been mounted further inboard, i.e. in place of the slipper tanks. I will probably leave them where they are, even knowing that it is wrong. I know that this could be regarded as a fairly slap dash approach, but ........... it was the least of my problems with this kit. Besides, life has moved on and I am now coming to grips with a model I bought fairly recently that I now discover is missing the entire part for under one wing, as well as other pieces that have gone walkabout over the years. I never seem to learn.
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