The sweet Shmel of success? 2P26

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.