RW: 1/48 Lavochkin La-9 warbird

[Scotaidh]

Very nice.  I'm very jealous of your canopy frame painting ... I've had to resort to pens to get mine even half decent.

Good job, sir!   

[Flyer]

Looks great Zac! 

[KiwiZac]

Thank you all so much! I've been wanting to do this for many years so it's gratifying to have it turn out so well.

Very nice.  I'm very jealous of your canopy frame painting ... I've had to resort to pens to get mine even half decent.

Good job, sir!   

A brush and a surprisingly steady hand! It came with two canopies but I already ruined the other with a gloss coat gone wrong so I was worried. Strictly speaking part of the windscreen framing isn't accurate but I can always get a vac replacement if it begins to irk me.

[flappydaffy]

looking sharp 

[zenrat]

Don't think I said it;
Good job Zac, albeit in the wrong scale.

[KiwiZac]

Don't think I said it;
Good job Zac, albeit in the wrong scale.

Is this better?
1/72 by Zac Yates, on Flickr
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr

As soon as I saw ZK-LIX fly I knew I needed a model of her. I scoured all the vendors tents at the airshow, we stopped at every hobby shop on our family tour around the lower and eastern South Island, all to no avail. Dad (understandbly getting exasperated with all this running around) said "It looks like a Focke-Wulf 190, why don't you try and make it out of one?" I wouldn't have any of that!

It wasn't until our ship took us back to the North Island that the proprietors of Modelcrafts & Hobbies in Wellington - one of whom would become a pivotal figure in Wingnut Wings - said he could order in a 1/72 Eastern European kit (I think by Gran?) of this very unknown aircraft for me. A month or two later it arrived and 17yo Zac very excitedly tackled his first short-run kit. This is the result, and I'm so glad it's survived the intervening years!!

[zenrat]

Much better. Well done on preserving her.

[KiwiZac]

Well done on preserving her.

About six months ago Dad called and said "I found a box of old built models, you should come round". To my delight the box was filled with builds done in 2004-06 I thought had been lost in house moves, including this La-9. I now intend to add a pilot figure and the missing decals (which I never got around to as a teen) and mount it on a stand as a companion for the big one 

[Wardukw]

Dont ya just love it when stuff like that happens 

[Dizzyfugu]

This La-9 was inspiring enough to make me dig out an old MPM 1:72 La-9/11 from The Stash™ and tackle/whif it. 

[KiwiZac]

Thanks gents!

This La-9 was inspiring enough to make me dig out an old MPM 1:72 La-9/11 from The Stash™ and tackle/whif it. 

Do it!!!

[Dizzyfugu]

Done. 

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=50119.0

[KiwiZac]

This makes me happy 

[KiwiZac]

With undying thanks to a kind member of another forum, a little envelope arrived over the weekend containing beautiful masks for the fuselage side numbers. She's coming together!
Ark Models 1/48 Lavochkin La-9 by Zac Yates, on Flickr

Now I'm just waiting for my local shop to restock their Tamiya paint so I can add red stripes to the rudder and she's done!

[Wardukw]

Damn thats looking good mate..real good 
As for your paint problem ..Zac ol mate you might be in for a good wait..my fav shops up here are having a nightmare trying to restock..the Tamiya extra thin glue is like hens teeth right now and so is paint.
Luckly Hobby City has a wicked selection of Ammo paints..their Tamiya stock ia very low..i cant even get flat black or white.