WAKU 1/72 Yak-17
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Robert PodkońskiImpressive job! (I do not have enough patience and skills to assemble a vacu-formed kit...)
Łukasz GlińskiOh man! You made an incredible job on this old model kit described an unbuildable in its country of origin 😄 Hats off!
Good to know that the fuselage is too narrow, I think it's common problem with these Eastern Bloc vacu kits (tried Yak 15 once, but gave up 😄)
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This is my 4th vacu-form build and an interesting subject, the Yak-17. Waku is a company from Poland which has released other vacu-form kits in the past, their Yak-17 kit was released in 1984. This kit consists of one styrene sheet with most of the main parts vacu-formed. One vacu-form canopy which was ultra thin and flimsy. And a decal sheet that I only used the number but did go on very nicely. This was a build that I enjoyed very much but it was not an easy build. The cockpit, wheel wells, main gears, and the engine inlet and exhaust all needed to get scratch built. The fuselage was too thin and needed to be widened and corrections had to be made on how the wings get attached to the fuselage.
Still with all this, it was an enjoyable build. It took 5 weeks to build. I took my time and now I have a Yak-17 sitting on my shelf. I am pretty happy with the end results.