Not all
completions can be characterized as glamorous. Some at best are utilitarian. If
they are Cold War Russian, you’re lucky if they don’t look like a tractor. This
is the AS-3 transport cart, meant to haul around the AS-3 Kangaroo nuclear
missile for the Tu-95.
Like all
AModel kits, it had some fit and alignment issues, and definitely falls into
the short run kit category. But I still enjoy them because they seem to go out
of their way to produce models of the weird and wonderful byways of aircraft
development, an area dear to my heart.
As you
can guess, the AS-3 itself will shortly be joining the completed category. It
got delayed a bit when I realized I was going to have to reshoot the overall
NMF (I used trusty Alclad White Aluminum to cover up the Dull Aluminum). So
stay tuned; it’ll be popping up after New Years.
This is
completed vehicle #23 (18 aircraft, 1 ordnance, 8 vehicles for the year 2018),
finished in December of 2018.
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