Hello to all.

I am posting pics of SS-23 Spider TEL (9P71 TEL of OTR-23 Oka missile complex) displayed at the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTR-23_Oka

This vehicle is shown in the documentary Striking Power 164: the Missile Web (in Russian, but worth watching anyway for unique prototype archive footage showing a missile launch). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvi36SCp5pw&t=1598s

I hope my pics will help in building the Hobby Boss 85505 kit.



Detailed information on the kit can be found here http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10290166

Kit review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dciwlPP97W0

Here is the 9P71.













And the 9M714 missile.

It's too bad they had to plate over the windows on the museum piece.

Right. The paint on the outdoor stored vehicles fades quickly, they repaint them twice a year. Each time the shade of green somewhat varies, so basically it’s not Cold War Russian green. And the frames & wheel rims were originally semi-gloss black, not matt NATO black as they paint them now. At least, they have recently changed all the tires on all the vehicles to new ones. But the indoor vehicles are 100% Cold War authentic, maybe 50 years in the same paint.