I'll start with a tip of my propeller beanie to Falconmod, whose (much finer) Trumpeter An-2 posted recently inspired me to pull out this old polystyrene coprolite from the height of the Cold War era.
This is the VEB-Plasticart 1/75 An-2, first produced in then-East Germany ca. 1961. As a kit it doesn't have a lot to recommend it: blocky and ill-fitting parts, crude contours and a near-total absence of surface detail (save for an odd geometric waffle grid of prominent rivets which bear no relation to actual lines on the aircraft). On the plus side...it does actually seem to capture the solid truck-like appearance and stork-legged stance of the real thing fairly convincingly. As an added interest, the VEB offering represents a rare configuration of the widely-used and long-serving An-2 design: seven aircraft which the East Germans had modified from agricultural aircraft, fitted with large rectangular fuselage windows for use as light-duty civil transports.
Since that was the version represented in the kit, I opted to go with one of these aircraft operated by 'Interflug,' the DDR's state airline, in the elegant eye-catching livery they wore in (I believe) the early-mid 60's.
I added a basic cockpit and seat-shapes in the cabin from various near-scale leftovers from other builds. Externally the build was OOB, except for half-round 'cylinders' and sprue push-rods added to the flat-bottomed hole in the front of the engine cowling. Rigging and aerial wire are EZ-Line; decals were home-printed except for the DDR flags on the tail (which came from the antiquated kit decal-sheet...but which worked just fine, despite being close to four decades old).
Hardly a sterling replica, but a fun encounter with not-quite-state-of-the-art Eastern-European modeling technology. Hope you enjoy.