YuMTK 1/72 Yak-28L

In-bag review



I have an interest in obscure early Russian and/or Ukrainian scale model brands. YuMTK is one of those brands, but there is hardly any information to be found. In 2025, I obtained two of their injection molded kits, the Su-17M-3 and the Yak-28L, from the Flash Aviation shop. They look awful at first sight, but think away the flash, a pretty nice model emerges. I decided to write reviews of these models (Su-17M-3 here), and make an overview of the YuMTK catalog.



The kit

This is probably not the original bag - the real bag probably looked worse :-)



The parts

The runner with the two fuselage halves. Smaller parts are the nose boom, in two halves, and three (originally four) landing gear doors.
Talk about flash!! This runner almost looks like a vacform part.

On the left side are the wing parts, on the rights side the large vertical fin, the relatively small horizontal tails, and the leading edges of the outboard wings. Smaller parts are two parts attached to the wing halves, that appear to be short-shot wing fences, and two outrigger wheels on the extreme left.
The runner with the engine nacelles. In between the nacelles, embedded in flash, eight smaller parts can be seen: two compressor faces, two inlet shock cones and four wing pylons. I don't think any pylons were used on the Yak-28L version. The large pylons have an extension on the leading edge, as seen on the K-8 missile of the Yak-28P.
Yet another runner with excessive flash. On the left two K-8 (or R-8, NATO AA-3 Anab) missiles with only two or three (instead of four) extra main fins and four nose fins. They are a strange inclusion for a Yak-28L, that was a dedicated radar bomber. I think these parts are left-over from the YuMTK Yak-28P model. Also seen are two pointy booms that go on the wing tips.

On the right four wheels and three landing gear parts.

It looks like some parts and part of the runner are missing, including a missile fin.
A close-up of the wheels and landing gear legs. They are mostly blobs. For a while I thought the middle wheels maybe had mud guards, but the real thing does not have them.
The canopy and nose are vacuum formed, but the parts are breaking up, probably UV made them brittle.
The details and panel lines are actually quite nice. The single gun makes this model an early Yak-28L with a single-barrel 23mm NR-23 cannon. Late Yak-28Ls had the twin-barrel 23mm GSh-23Ya cannon.
The details on the wing parts are also well done. The single-piece wing looks too thin. Yefin Gordon's book says they were 4.2% at the root. With ~84 mm chord measured at the root (including the flap), it should be 3.5 mm thick. The actual part is 3 mm thick, not far off.
The instructions are extremely simple. The missiles are not shown. No slipper tanks are provided for the model. From a quick study I got the impression that early Yak-28Ls lacked them, but late Yak-28Ls had them.




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