RStretton

A few weeks ago I received my copy of the De Agostini Yak-42 from a Russian eBay seller. In some ways the model is excellent and in some ways it is toy-like so perhaps it is harsh giving it a full review but here are my thoughts anyway. I can't see any other Yaks being made soon so despite it's issues it is a welcome addition to my collection:

https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/1...51-de-agostini

Aeroflot Yakovlev Yak-42 CCCP-19751 by Richard Stretton, on Flickr

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aklein707

It's kind of cute, and in spite of what nitpickers and rivet counters might say, something nice to add to a collection.


No antennas??!! OMG!!

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RStretton

If you could get hold of the mould it'd be worthwhile making a run of Aeroclassics Yak-42s using it. The mould is decent enough - just the printing is poor.

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Delta dc-8

What an interesting model, never seen a DeAgostini model before

CBL

For once I will agree with you. I got mine and it seats well next to your other Russian models

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crownvic

To this day I regret selling my 200 scale version purchased at Collectors Aircraft Models. I believe it was manufactured by Historic Models..

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aklein707

Still have mine!!

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Just say NO to Apollo400/Black Box/Panda Models/Junk-X/First Choice/C&C/IF400/AV400/Witty400/Magic/AV200/AK200/Flightline/Flightline200/Flightline400/Pegasus/Blue Angle/5stars & any BigBirds (real or fake)

shandaken

This looks 3D printed to me.

Boeing 707-320C

You can get 1/400 Yak 42 3D hard-plastic cut-out models for £15, also AN22 and Dassault Mercure.

Can't get anyone to custom-paint it unfortunately.

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Holy Grails Boeing 707 of Ethiopian (Done)/Royal Jordanian/Tarom/Dan Air/Florida West/Tampa/Millon Air/Air Zimbabwe (Done)/Azerbaijan, DC-8 of Air Spain/Surinam-KLM(Done)/Seaboard World, Tu134 Aviogenex/Malev/Aeroflot(Done)/Balkan, Tu154 Malev, IL76 Mahan Air, IL18 Tarom/Malev, Caravelle Trans Europa/Syrian Air, plus any AN12, Tu114, IL14.

Favourite manufacturers - Aeroclassics ("just like a fine wine, they only get better with age"), also like El Aviador, and NG Models.