OK so with the recent self-escalation of the Yom Kippur War project I decided to pick up some air support for my Egyptians. The best available option (as MiG-17s are no longer available from Battlefront) are these - the Su-17 Fitter box set.
These were on sale at Meeplemart and Conscript Greg kindly picked them up for me before his recent visit back to Winnipeg. These aircraft kits are fully injection molded plastic (well except for the missiles which are resin) and are a doddle to assemble.
No Egyptian decals in the box of course so I hand painted the roundels and flag, and scribed the numbers in "Western Arabic" numerals with my technical pen.
Oh and I guess I should explain how these work for the Egyptian air force of the YKW... it's simple really, the Su-20 used by the Egyptians in-period was just the export version of the Soviet Su-17M. As far as I've been able to tell, the aircraft were identical in appearance.
I think these are pretty good-looking aircraft and they were a great deal from the Meeple-people. They'll do nicely in a YKW game. Of course I've got some Israeli aircraft done too - but they're waiting for decals to arrive and once they do, I'll get 'em posted here. Youm Sa'id!
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Dallas - these look tremendous. Great work!
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