Yak-52 - Hobby Park
Hungarian Air Force

A tiny, but very difficult kit to build - nearly all the steps caused some challenges. I also had to do a lot of scratch-building, part surgery and even kit-bashing: for instance the three blade propeller comes from the spares box.

Watch out for the landing gears: they are extremely fragile and broke directly on the sprue, so I had to reinforced them with superglue. They are also on the verge of collapsong, so the model is a bit wonky. You may want to replace the main strut with a metal pin or something similar. Also make sure to cram the nose full with lead weights - at least 20-30 grams, or the model will be a tail-sitter.