Making Ash without burning stuff...
The first step was to clip the wings of the donor AA-6 (not as simple as it sounds, assuming you want a smooth missile body). I then glued sone strips of 0.4x1.0mm Evergreen to the nose, to serve as the base for the bulge. The space between the strips was then filled with acrylic gel medium, and sanded smooth. This took several iterations before I was happy with it.
Several iteration later I shot primer over the nose, filled up any remaining blemishes with a more dedicated, finer grained filler, and sanded again. The styrene strips can still be seen in the result, but some of the white showing is actually the filler, while the green is the gel that still touches the surface.
Next up were shortening the body by a few mm, and the wings, cut from 0.5mm sheet and stuck on by eyeball (couldn't think of a neat trick to help me here...)
The small control surfaces at the rear were actually a lot trickier to get right than the main wings, due to the more complex shape and smaller dimensions. I think 'best guess' supported by the Mk1 Eyeball did a fair job of getting the shape and alignment right though...
This will now sit for some time to allow the plastic to recover from all that glue, and give me a chance to work up the courage to stick this possibly fragile missile into clay and rubber.
The missile as shown here it the SARH version, with the bullet point nose. The heat seaker does has a far more pointed nose, from the widest part forward, and this will need to be filed down on the castings. I recon that anyone brave enough to tackle vacform should be able to handle a bit of sanding
The castings will also need a strip of 0.4x1.0mm attached to the body, starting about 1mm behind the end of the missile, and extending to a bit forward of the wing on the heatseaker, and to some point hidden between the wings on the SARH.