Yakovlev Yak-40 - Aeroflot
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OK I thought i'd dump some pictures of my current (long time but finally the end is in sight) project which i started back in 2015 and which i put on hold several times.
The protagonist of this project is a Yakovlev Yak-40, a small regional passenger jet built in the Soviet Union which made its maiden flight in 1966, the scale is 1:144. The selection of kits of this type in this scale is surprisingly good, unfortunately none of them stands out with exceptional quality, i chose the one from the newest moulds which happens to be the Czech producer "AZ Models". Additionally there is a nice PE plate from Extratecxh which i also use in the build.
I decided to make some improvements and additions to the model which are:
-building the whole landing gear from scratch
-flaps down
-passenger access ladder in the rear part open
-many small parts from scratch
-meh, pictures tell more than thousand words
many of the shown techniques were and still are new to me, like making the landing gear from hypodermic needle tubi