1/72 Roden An-12

bondoman wrote:

I bought AM decals- the kits' were crud. Also used Humbrol paints per Rodens inst, which I have to say set up the interior exactly like that photo, but it's a modern Ukrainian cargo civil bird, not Soviet. But I liked it. The little gas bowser was a separate kit from Zv with about a million parts, really fun to build.

Good thing there are 1/72 scale modern vehicles since you can put them into 1/72 scale modern cargo planes. You got to admit though that this plane just screams look at me I look like a American C-130.

I bought AM decals- the kits' were crud. Also used Humbrol paints per Rodens inst, which I have to say set up the interior exactly like that photo, but it's a modern Ukrainian cargo civil bird, not Soviet. But I liked it. The little gas bowser was a separate kit from Zv with about a million parts, really fun to build.

I did a lot of research on the AN-12 Cub and all my information indicates that for the military versions the propellers were painted black with yellow tips and small sections of metal deicer edges on the inner leading edge of each blade. I produced a softcovered book that includes 17 pages on the AN-12. Theere is a complete B&W set of walk around pictures and 19 researched profiles. If you are interested in the book drop me a line at matsman@cox.net

Richard

Don't forget that ACE a Ukranian model company which produces 1/72 scale armor also produces a 1/72 scale AN-12 PE upgrade set. I picked one up and it looks awesome with replacement crew seats all in PE a cargobay crane and alot of misc bits and pieces including propeller deicers. I got mine on Ebay seeing as there is no noticeable US distributer.

Oh and I have the AN-12BK Civil and the AN-12BK CUB  And I recently got a hold of the Aero Master AN-12 decal set.

Really, blue? I did mine in black and thought they matched more current i.e. airliners.net shots. It is hard to find pics of Cubs from the Cold War.

That is an alltime great model. I spent a long time building it, but it is super accurate and really interesting. Roden is Ukraine, so I wouldn't discount their inst. on this a/c as opposed to say Trumpeter who mess it up every time on everything. I used Humbrol colors as per the inst. for all the colors and they looked right.