The three bladed prop with seperate spinner in the set of chrome parts were from the Airfix P-40E. I just used two of them for a couple of Yak-11 conversions. Cut down slightly they work fine, too bad that I had to sand off the chrome. This Yak has a P&W R-2000 with a modified prop from a Grumman Tracker and seven exhaust stubs on each side. The original Yak-11 had two exhaust stubs under the fuselage at the aft end of the cowling.
This is my first attempt at doing chrome. The canopy frame, panel behind the exhaust stubs, landing gear doors, forward 1/3 of the cowling and edges of the prop blades are chrome. The rest of the plane is gloss black. I'm doing one basic model for the owner and one detailed model for myself. The Aeroteam kit's interior is pretty crude, so I'm using etched metal Entropy and Interavia detail parts, Elf wheels with rubber tires and a vacuform canopy from my own MAI kit #001, long out of production. The engine is from a Revell Grumman F4F Wildcat suitably altered and detailed for both models.
Markings are quite a variety. Personal markings (BLYAK with a Bullwinkel Moose on the left side of the cowling) and registration NX242IX are complicated red/yellow reduced from color photos and printed on decal stock. Large yelllow 711 on tail is done in the same manner. Yellow outlined red stars from CAM, red lightning stripe outlined in yellow on fuselage side made from Microscale red stock and yellow strping from one of their HO RR sheets.
Last details are Pratt & Whitney decals for the cowlng and Hamlton Standard decals for the prop. These are really tine. Any suggestions? I have hundreds of after market decals, so I probable have them.
Just goes to show that one never knows when a seemnigly useless part such as the chrome stuff in the MPC/Airfix kits can come in handy.
Cheers,
Tom