Popping in a quick post here with some more work done on the YKW project. First up are three Battlefront T-62s. These are great looking tanks, not much extra work required on them, I just filled in the mounting holes for the snorkel at the back of the turret with greenstuff.
I took inspiration for the three-colour camo pattern from AK's excellent book, "Middle East Wars - Arab-Israeli Conflict 1948-1973" by the unlikely duo of Pere Valls and "Zachary Sex". As someone with an unusual name, I feel for that dude, I really do.
Anyway I painted the tank with Tallarn Sand over Morgrot Hide, Skrag Brown over Doombull Brown, and Death World Forest over Castellan Green, washed with Agrax and re-highlighted Tallarn. Looks OK I reckon.
These three will join nine Khurasan T-55s... speaking of which...
Here's one on the left. Notice that the Khurasan model is about 10% smaller than the Battlefront tank. I know the hull of the T-62 was "a few centimetres longer and wider" than that of the T-55 but this is a bit much. Oh well.
Next up is some motorized transport for the Egyptians - BTR-60s.
Again, Battlefront models. These are really good kits. I stuck some spare fuel cans on 'em but otherwise left them built from the box.
Love the commanders included with these.
I used the technical pen to add some tactical numbers to the hulls.
Last up is a "speculative" vehicle. After painting a bunch of Israeli and Egyptian jets it is only prudent to paint some anti-aircraft defence. I have Shilkas coming for the Egyptians (
and the SA-2 SAM of course) but that left the IDF to consider. I've read that they captured Shilkas from the Egyptians during the 1973 war, but can't find any pictures of them in action. What else did they have?
Well, I understand that the IDF did get some of the new M48 Chaparral anti-aircraft missile platforms and they were used in the 1973 war, one apparently shooting down a MiG-17. Good enough for me.
This is a 3D-printed model from "3D Battlefield Miniatures" - he also sold me the T-62 sprues. It's a really nice crisp resin print but came with one of the missile tailsections broken off. No problem, I just cut off the nose and that was a missile that had already been fired off. The missile rack was even pre-magnetized, which was nice! It's painted in Grey-Green washed with Agrax, like my other IDF vehicles.
The model didn't come with crew though, so I pinched a couple of crew figures from the Battlefront Israeli/Iranian (!) TOW jeeps I have on the painting table. Of course I built the jeeps with Israeli crew, but one 15mm crewman is very much like another, so I did a quick head swap on the Iranians with a couple of US WW2 halftrack passengers left over from my PSC project. Hey presto, crew dudes for the M48. The only thing is... the driver is hanging onto a steering wheel, but the Chaparral was controlled with levers. As you can well imagine, I'm not particularly bothered.
Til next time... youm sa'id and shalom!
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