Amodel An-22 'Antei'

Ken,

I thought the interior sheet was designed to be folded into a box and inserted into the fuselage in one piece. Did you decide to split the sides off to add more detail?

BTW, I am looking for a sub-contractor to assemble my flaps, just like the real aircraft. Must be 80+ parts in each wing flap unit.

Bill Strandberg

Not on mine - they are moulded as four separate pieces. The floor tapers at the front - so it isn't a regular rectangular box anyway. The instruction sheet illustration (step 9) shows four separate parts - you also have to cement tabs along the bottom edge of the sides - and the floor rests on the tabs.

Have you got an addendum sheet for step 14 ?? The addendum is step 14A. They have clearly moulded the starboard sponson with just a single APU exhaust outlet - but that was only on the early machines. Later machines have twin APU outlets - so Amodel have provided an injection-moulded insert - trouble is you have to cut out a corresponding rectangular hole in the sponson - and drilling and cutting through the fibreglass is such a chore !!

Still, its done now - I also cut out the opening for the starboard door at the same time. I will now have to fabricate a 'tunnel' from the door in the outer sponson to the door in the inner vacform 'wall'!

Yeh - lots of fiddly bits to add - I may just go mad by the end of it !! Still, you do get lots of modelling for your money !!!

I am slowly building up a collection of refs on the An-22. I think I may go for the camouflaged example - I think there was only one ? I have a number of colour shots - so I am trying to work out the camo pattern.

The same machine also seems to have had a box-like structure on top of the u/c sponsons - with what looks like chaff/flare dispensers. Easy to make from plastic card. The camo machine also has the twin APU exhausts.

Hi,

Looks like a nice challenge - but where do you keep it once finished? BTW, I have some shots I took of the first An-22 to visit the UK (Manston, 1985-ish) if anyone would like scans. I think three An-22s have thus far been in the UK - two at Manston and one that brought an (An-124?) engine into Farnborough. I stand to be corrected however.

Duncan

That's the general idea - the bigger the aircraft, the less I have to carry!!!

The ultimate goal is to have just one thing on display taking up all the available space - maybe a 1:72 scale KM ??? (Caspian Sea Monster).

Are there any other kind ??

Thinks - a 1:72 scale KM plus a Trumpeter 1:32 scale Flanker - that would do it !!!

Happy New Year Jon - see you in Gelendzhik !

Yes please on the scans - I am trying to collect as many as possible. There are some detail differences on these machines - as I am finding out.

I am also trying to get some pics of a representative load. I have ordered a 1:72 scale SCUD from Jadar models - I figure that would look great just off the rear ramp - but a photo confirming such a load would be a plus.

Not that the lack of documentary evidence would stop me - artistic licence and all!

Hello all,

Maybe a dumb question, but what is a KM?

SeeYa and happy newyear!

Marco The Netherlands

The KM (korahbl'-maket, prototype ship) was the largest Ekranoplan (Wing In Ground Effect craft) produced by the Alexeyev design bureau at Gorky (Nizhniy Novgorod). It was dubbed the Caspian Sea Monster, I believe by US intelligence when they saw satellite photos of the KM being built near the Caspian Sea and realised it's size. Some have taken KM to stand for the same: Kaspeeyskiy monstr. Well, that's more or less what the Yefim Gordon book says. Anyway, at ~295 feet long and 544 tonnes, it would make an impressive and table filling model in 1:72.

Jon.

- artistic licence

I've got many endorsements on mine over the years! N