1/48 Planet Models L-29 Delfin

by Pavel Krejci

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  Czech National Day 2004 

 

This is a resin kit with photo-etched parts (mainly for the cockpit) and stiffened undercarriage legs. Building is not quite easy, some resin parts were deformed, I had to correct it under hot water.  There is also a lot of puttying and sanding necessary, some parts were missing (pitot tubes, parts from cockpit), so I had to rebuild them from scratch.

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When all of this was done, I had a beautiful model of a beautiful jet-so all afford was worth for it!  I finished it in light grey marking Of Czech AF /32nd Tactical AFB Namest/from 1995.  Other option was overall silver plane of Soviet AF /Training college at Barnaul/.

The L-29 was constructed by Aero Vodochody in Czech republic in early sixties.  In 1961 it won a tender for a Warsaw Pact training plane.  It became the most widely used training aircraft in eastern bloc and Asia and Africa.  What was T-33 for west, the L-29 was for east.  A total of 3665 planes were built, many of them flying in private hands till today.

Pavel

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Photos and text © by Pavel Krejci