A photo-etched instrument panel for the early Soviet Yakovlev Yak-23 jet fighter in 1:72 scale, prepared for the Special Hobby kit.
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While other design bureaus bet on the swept wing, Yakovlev played safe. His fighter of 1947 had a straight wing and a fuselage divided into a short forward shell with the intake and a thin boom carrying the tail surfaces, under which the exhaust gas flowed. The engine was based on a British design which the Soviet Union obtained legally and put into licensed production. The result was a very light and nimble aircraft with a sharp rate of climb.
Its career was short, though. The swept-wing competition from the neighboring design bureau offered a considerably higher speed, and the straight wing was suddenly obsolete. Something over three hundred were built and most of them went to allied air forces. They reached Czechoslovakia under a domestic designation and served only a few years before more modern types replaced them.
It is sensible to finish and paint the cockpit before the fuselage halves are glued together. The metal panel is seated into a cleaned-out bed, the instruments are picked out with the finest brush and the engraved detail can be brought out with a dark washable paint wiped off the surface.
Red stars with a white outline on the wings and the tail spray easily through a cut mask and the paint stays level with its surroundings. Multicolor squadron badges and number codes, by contrast, are worth leaving to printing, because fitting two or three masks over one another tends to be a source of inaccuracies that cannot be corrected on a small area.
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