Amid growing tensions in the Arctic with squabbles over who owned the North Pole and such the Norwegian armed forces wanted a light transport aircraft with great endurance able to land on improvised runways in all weather conditions. Contacting various manufacturers and in the process getting Denmark into the boat as such was also seen needed in Greenland to supply the Sirius Sleigh Patrol and other scattered outpost in the great white just as well as Norwegian Jägers in Finnmark or Svalbard; a design was finally approved.
Looking like an Antonov 24 with a kinda Noratlas nose but having jets indstead of turboprops the most striking feature was the winter landing skis. Earning the nickname of Bigfoot when first going to Alaska but known to Danish Sleigh Patrol and Norwegian Jägers as Mother Goose - it soldiered on earning the pay by doing the job around the clock. No payload too odd weather too bad or runway too short Mother Goose would deliver ammunition, mail, christmas presents, fresh sleigh dogs or evacuate wounded. She really turned out to be a golden egg.
Having as leftovers the fuselage of the Starfix 1/170 Noratlas the front third became the nose when that had been cut off the 1/157 Plastyk Antonow AN-24. A FROG 1/72 Tupolev SB-2 provided two skis while some parts from the spares box and a q-tip provided bits to change the engines to jets - oh and a Revell 1/72 Mystere provided the tiptanks.
Decals from stash.