Normanrie Niemen Yak-3

This Yak-3 is built from the Eduard kit and is finished in the markings of Normandie-Niemen Regiment, the Free French fighter unit operating within the Soviet Air Force.

The model is built pretty much straight from the box and uses the kit decals, the paint is from the old (Original) Aeromaster acrylics range.

The Normandie-Niemen unit fought a distinguished campaign on the easten front from 1943 and one of its Yak-3s is on display at the Musee de l'Air et Aerospace at Le Bouget just outside Paris.

History of Normandie-Niemen at Wikipedia.
Normandie-Niemen Museum (In French).
Photographs of the preserved Yak-3 at Le Bourget.


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