Lavochkin Fighters
in Color Vol. I

Detail and Color 3

Hussar Productions, 1/48 scale

Reviewed by Graham Carter

A thin high gloss cover contains 52 A4 pages of quality semi-gloss paper in landscape format. The cover has a nice CAD illustration of a LaGG-3 downing a Bf109 by what looks like Artur Trzebny.

The book is essentially a compendium of numerous schemes for this very important Russian war-plane, with a six page introduction that traces the development and production history, followed at the rear by six pages of service usage. This is accompanied by a small number of photos and together they sandwich the main part of the book.

This consists of 19 individual two-page full colour four-view drawings of each aircraft that illustrate the different variants and colour schemes used on this aeroplane. These are done to a very high standard and look just fabulous. Each has a short note to give the pilot and the combat area and dates of usage. Each also has colour notes with AMT numbers.

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

Thumbnail panels:

The icing on the cake, so to speak, is a fabulous A4 1/48th scale decal sheet that covers all of the aircraft  illustrated on these 36 pages - 19 planes in total.

These have been printed by Techmod and show great colour density and register, glossy finish and minimal trim film and are printed on a mid-blue background which allows the large number of white images to be easily found - thank you Hussar!

I will not go through and list all of the subjects but sufficient to say that there are eight LaGG-3s from several different production batches, three La-5s, three La-5Fs, four La-5Ns and two La-7s in a variety of attractive schemes.

This really is a great package and should keep the 1/48th modeller happy for years! Probably best to get together with a mate or three to share the spoils I think! 

While there are no stencils there are sufficient stars to build every aircraft.

Highly recommended to fans of these WWII Soviet aeroplanes in 1/48.

Thanks to Hussar Productionsfor the sample

Available online from Hussar Productions

Text Copyright © 2022 by Graham Carter
Images Copyright © 2022 by Brett Green
Page Created 10 March, 2022
Last updated 11 March, 2022

Back to HyperScale Main Page

Back to Reviews Page