Yak-38U Forger B

Pascal GARAT
Beautiful cockpit!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Hobby Boss delivers seats without harness (to be honest: with two very thin lines of cast-on seatbelts) so I tried to make a more realistic look with seatbelts made of metal foil.
In the next steps, the cockpits of the two Yaks will be closed and the fuselage halves will be glued.

Pascal GARAT
Metal foil is a good choice for the belt.
I often use it, mainly lead foil, to realize safety belts on my models: aircrafts of race cars😉
That's what I used for the 312PB "recently"...
I will follow your Forger with interest 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you very much for your words and interest Pascal!
I think the material for the Forgers seatbelt was once wraped around the neck of a bottle of champagne 🙂

Pascal GARAT
Well, as I'm living near Bordeaux.... I have few lead foils from Wine bottles😉

Roland Sachsenhofer
To your health, Pascal! 🙂
A few steps further with the fuselage... the odd look of the two seat-versions is obvious from the start on!

Roland Sachsenhofer
My Yak is slowly taking shape... The air ducts on the fuselage have to be attached seperately, that´s good because they can be drilled out easily before gluing.
Some more fine tuning of the surfaces, then the preshading can start.

Roland Sachsenhofer
preshading has been done, also the wheel bays and various air intakes have been sprayed with the appropriate colour.
The landing gear struts have just been equipped with some brake lines, this will be detailed further.

Jermaine Hoskin
Looking good! Something else to watch.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you for your interest- I am quite curious what it will look like!🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer
Some minor sanding was required after glueing of the air intakes- the kit shows some fitting problems on these parts. With a little surgery this problem is easily solved.
By now the Yak`s decaling is being finished....

Roland Sachsenhofer
The surfaces are nearly finished, but the gloss level will be dimmed just a little bit with Gunze clear flat...

Philip De Keyser
Great progress Roland, This is a weird airplane 😉 This is something you don't see every day, nice nice nice 👍
Greetz, Phil

Christian Ristits
Nice Plane, good Job - like it!

Eric
That cockpit is truly incredible!

Clifford Keesler
Nice airplane.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Hey, thank you very much for your kind words and your interest!

Wim van der Luijt
Weird looking plane, but you're turning it into a beauty as usual!

Ray Seppala
That is coming along nicely Roland. Somewhere in the stash is the 1/72 A Model version. I hope it will be as easy a build as this!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you both for your kind words! It was defintily a rather easy build, even if one of the last steps proved to be difficult: fit of the canopies was rather bad, so I had to carafully sand the clear parts into shape.
Not much to do to finish this project: I have to clue the missile launchers into place and fix the last part of the landing gear fairing...

Stefan Fraundorfer
Die Forger ist zwar ein ziemlich häßliches Flugzeug, was man aber von Deinem Modell wirklich nicht behaupten kann. Sauber gebaut und lackiert. Gefällt mir.

Michel Huijghe
👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Hello Stefan and Michel, thank you very much for your words and interest!
You can see some final photos of the finished "Yak-38U" project. The last building steps did not show any further problem or difficulty. The antennas in front of the cockpit have been made by stretched sprue after the original parts- much too heavy in my opinion- had to make place for the sanding paper.
After all, I can recommend this fine HB kit to anybody interested in that odd and unique aircraft!

Michel Huijghe
I also got one and I find this one an inspiration. 👍

Augie
Nice going

Sebastijan Videc
Nice job!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you guys! And now on to the one-seater... 🙂
For this I got the R-60 "Aphid" missile "Brassin" set from Eduard; I wonder what it will look like!