Print Scale 1/48 Lavochkin La-5 Part 1
By Matt Bittner
If you're looking for different markings for your 1/48 Lavochkin La-5 (Hobbycraft/Academy, Gremlin and Zvezda) then look to this release – and Part 2 – from Print Scale. The colors are very nice and the decals are in register. The following aircraft are covered:
- La-5, 4 GvIAP of Senior Lieutenant Dmitrev V.M. Summer, 1943, finished in AMT4/AMT-6 over AMT-7 undersides – this one is marked with the shark's mouth on the nose
- La-5, 5th GvIAP, 11th GvIAD, 2nd GvShAK, 1st Ukrainian Front, finished in AMT-11/AMT-12 over AMT-7 – this aircraft was furnished with funds by Leonid Utesov's jazz band
- La-5 of twice the Hero of the Soviet Union K.A. Yevstigneyev, Spring 1943, AMT-4/AMT-6 over AMT-7
- La-5FN of the commander I.A. Veshnjakova, 1944, AMT-11/AMT-12 over AMT-7
- La-5F, 2nd GIAP, donated by the inhabitants of Mongolia, AMT-11/AMT-12 over AMT-7
- La-5 "early", Kursk fight, area of Belgorod, 1943, AMT-4/AMT-6 over AMT-7
- La-5FN, 5th GvIAP, 11th GvIAD, 2nd GvShAK, piloted by Vitaly Popokov, 1943, AMT-11/AMT-12 over AMT-7
- La-5FN, flown by K.A. Evstignev, AMT-11/AMT-12 over AMT-7
- La-5 960 IAP, flown by Spanish pilot Vincent Beltran, June, 1943, AMT-4/AMT-6 over AMT-7
- La-5, flown by P. Rakov, Summer 1944, AMT-11/AMT-12 over AMT-7 with a red nose and yellow outline of stars and yellow recognition number
Our thanks to Print Scale for allowing us to review these decals.