Further escalation in the October War project! Undeterred by the apparent anachronisms running rampant in my Israeli armour, I'm continuing the project with a pair of A-4E Skyhawks for their air force.
I found these USAF models from Battlefront's 'Nam range for an unbelievable deal, so picked them up for my Israeli force. I stand to be corrected in the comment section but I think the aircraft are reasonably accurate representations of the planes that served in the October War.
The Israelis used a couple different variants of the Skyhawk in a ground-attack role during the conflict. These are early A-4Es. Later on we'd see the modified A-4H and -N versions with the hump on the dorsal surface of the fuselage, that contained an upgraded avionics package. Even the -Es got upgraded with this package but these are the earlier sleeker version of the aircraft. I didn't add the extended anti-SAM tailpipe as that upgrade came later too. I think I might bend out the refueling probe a bit though.
Of course since these planes were sold for the 'Nam range, they didn't come with suitable decals... but no worries, Israeli roundels were sourced from a Canadian eBay seller and came very quickly indeed! The "tail numbers" are from the original Battlefront USAF decal set as I'm not that fussed with trying to replicate specific aircraft. Shalom!
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Not going to savage you - I think Battlefront market the same model for Israel.
Re earlier comment on armour. Huge subject! ☺ Best books were a series by Trackpad - now OoP as he is retiring. They had two on tanks and four on sp art. There are Sabinga Martin - superb detail but on a limited topic - latest is Centurions used on Golan YKW. There was also a two part work on halftracks and one on Shermans by Tom Gannon, who authored the Trackpad series as well.
Online, good start:
https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwar/israel
https://shiryonarchive.com/tank-identification-guides/
Neil
Fantastic work Dallas - these guys totally look the part.
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