Friday, March 20, 2020

SA-2 Guidline SAM in 1/600

Corona virus situation has arrived in northeast Tennessee. Only one case officially reported, but things have more or less closed down. Technically, my kids and I are on spring break, but my son has been unwillingly doing online activities like Khan Academy, and I am dealing with very unhelpful IT people in trying to set up Zoom for online teaching. It will be what it will be in terms of online classes.  The upshot is that I have not had as much time as I'd like to work on the hobby. I am trying to get as much done as I can. Here is the finished product of that O8, SA-2 Guideline set.

Complete set + Radio truck

SA-2 SAM

Spoon Rest and Fan Song radars

Radio truck

Missile site

Spoon Rest is the early warning radar. The Fan Song is the guidance and tracking radar for the missiles. For the missiles and the Fan Song, I based them as if they were sitting around in dusty dirt. The Spoon Rest and the radio truck, I gave them my generic grass base as they could be used elsewhere. The radio truck didn't come with the set, but the missile site needed launch control location. It is hiding behind the Fan Song in the last picture. 

I found maps and diagrams made of permanent SAM sites. The missiles and the control radar are in earthen shelters. They are more extensive than what I've made, but I wanted to scale down the whole thing. I made the bunkers out of polymer clay and then flocked the outer side and made inside with the same modelling paste as I used for the bases of the missiles and Fang Song. 


3 comments:

  1. Very neat little models and splendid as ground targets. Nice work!

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  2. Glad you all like them! They will be used as a ground target and as an objective for a commando raid game, at least that is the plan.

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