I'll start off with the "size reference pic" because this plane is one of the smallest I have built so far.
I didn't expect it to be so small! The dependable Russian workhorse of the post-war period, the Antonov An-2, came in a few variants, and this one, the An-6, was specially developed for meteorological research and survey work, hence the unusual little observation canopy in front of the tail and stabilisers. Though just a single-engined biplane, the An-6 managed to climb past 30,000 feet, which is good going (in fact its best altitude ever achieved was 36,900 feet!).
Here's that unusual rear end. Not sure what the little things on the stalks just outside the canopy are, presumably some weather measuring things.
Being such a tiny plane, it was hard to get it all finished neatly, (and but stand back and it looks OK, and it certainly looks OK on the shelf, but up close it's full of blemishes). The front canopy comes in three separate pieces, and they didn't go together so well, so that part of the model lets the team down a bit.
The kit itself is by Amodel. There's a sheet of PE parts, including the struts for the wings and the braces for the landing gear.
I've built a few Amodel kits, because they're the only people making some unusual civilian planes that I find interesting, but the quality is always a bit so-so, although in their favour they are cheap. The fit often isn't good, and they have some of the weirdest ways of asking you to attach propellers to engines, and landing gear to fuselages – they do like to do things the hard way - but their prices and the range of non-military plane models make me keep on coming back to see what else they have.