In addition to the Russian transport aircraft I also got an F Toys 1/300 YS-11 Japanese Military Transport aircraft. This was painted up to loosely represent the aircraft from TinTin and the Picaros. The inspiration behind the San Theodoros campaign. The aircraft designation 00-AWA is the same as in the story. You can just make it out in the last picture.
So for a while I have been scouring the t'interweb for suitable Russian transport aircraft to use for VDV airborne drops or troop transport for our CWC games. I managed to get hold of a few Eastern Express 1/288 kits in various states of repair. A couple were still in the box but some had been a bit neglected and needed a bit of work. I picked up two An-30 and two An-72 but all were damaged in some way or another but I could build one good model of each out of them. I'll look to scratch build some bits at a later date to use the remaining two. Also had three An-32 kits in good shape.
So after painting and building new flight stands with magnets I have a flight of 5 aircraft that can be used on table.
