Today’s
completion is actually two models which were done at the same time: the Raduga
AS-1 Kennel missile and its associated transport cart, both by AModel.
The
Kennel is an anti-shipping missile which was used by the Tu-4 and Tu-16. It
apparently was in Soviet service from roughly 1955 to 1969.
This is
one of AModel’s earlier efforts and it shows. Fit is somewhat miserable, and
required a large amount of putty to take care of gaps and seams. I was concerned
about trying to put a NMF over all of that when I noticed that one of the options
was for a red-painted missile. I also found some photos of this example on
Google. Painting a solid color, even red, over lots of repair work definitely
beats trying to spray Alclad over it all. A couple of numbers from an Xtradecal
set of RAF letters/numbers completed the work.
Another
example of the AModel line of large missile ordnance. The next will likely be
the AS-3 Kangaroo.
This is
completed ordnance #11 and completed vehicle #19 (13 aircraft, 1 ordnance, 5
vehicles for the year 2018), finished in October of 2018.
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