This 2P26 Shmel - that’s a GAZ-69 with Sagger AT missiles - began life as a 1/43 scale fire tender, as seen in this
earlier post. Feeling that my Warpact anti-tank forces needed some (but clearly not much) help, I set to work.
Having ‘cut and shut’ the plastic tilt, I built up the missile mount from scrap plastic. The rails were adapted from the rocket rails left over from a Matchbox Swordfish kit. The missiles are cut-down Sparrow missiles.
A couple of bits of sprue were used to make the folded down frame which on the real one supports a canvas cover.
13 comments:
World class bodging Tim. Very nice job.
Very nice. I have a fondness for the 2P26 and other early ATGM systems. One of these days I'll build myself some early Cold War armies.
An inspired piece of bodging. There is a risk that at some point people might start to think of you as a proper modeller....
Great hodge work Tim, Shmels great.
Nice conversion.
Martin Rapier
Thanks. I console myself with the belief that it doesn’t look any worse than the real thing!
Russell Phillips
It’s almost irresistibly awful!
John Armatys
Lucky you know the sorry truth, eh?
Peter Douglas
Shmels pretty dodgy to me.
Rob Young
Conversion? You insult the noble art of bodging sir!
Really like that, well played that man!
cheers
matt
Very nice Tim.
Should add a bit of fire support for the Red Army.
Cheers,
Pete.
A very well executed and useful scratch-build.
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