The brief life of an Egyptian T-62A Tank.....Yom Kippur 1973

[spanner570]

Here is the life story of an Egyptian bit of armour during the Egypt/ Israeli 1973 coming together. - Yom Kippur.

I've made two of my favourite early 'inaccurate toys' from Tamiya, a couple of 1/35 Russian T-62A's for this project.



One will be invading Israel and one won't be going back to Egypt!


Cheers.
Ron

 

[stillp]

Watching...
Pete

 

[Jim R]

Hi Ron
Sounds like a plan
Jim

 

[Gern]

I know you Ron! You're gonna go an' ruin one o' those perfectly good tanks ain't ya!

 

[Mini Me]

Move over Dave, I need a little elbow room 'case things get out of hand.

 

[minitnkr]

Fire, flame & fury? We'll need to control Dzohn. PaulE

 

[spanner570]

Nice to have you chaps along.

Dave, it's the tank on the right that won't be going back across the Suez Canal!

Paul, 453 won't be around as he's probably on the Russian Front. In any case there will be no fire and flame - perhaps a little fury.

Cheers.
Ron

 

[spanner570]

It's yainin', so up in the den I am....

For the 'Invasion' I've decided I needs me an Israeli Observation Post.
I set to this morning and designed one out of my noggin.
It's made from foam board.

The shape transferred onto the board and cut to size.






Glued together ( Figures just for scale)






I've worked in a bit of sloppy mortar into the block work, then added a first coat of brushed on Vallejo Air acrylics.



Although not very noticeable, but I've introduced a bit of sand colour









A closer shot of the finished job. I've tried to make the O.P. look as though it was build in a bit of a hurry shortly after the last major set to with the neighbours in June 1967!



Cheers and keep safe.
Ron

 

[scottie3158]

I'm in mate off to a great start.

 

[Mini Me]

Looks great from here... Rick H.

 

[Gern]

What's your secret Ron? Cracking job on what is a relatively simple building - but how did you hide the joints on the corners?

 

[BigGreg]

Hell of a battle....curios to see where it will...excitment level..super high...

 

[papa 695]

Great work on the outpost Ron

 

[spanner570]

Thanks for the encouraging posts chaps, but I'm afraid this diddy two part build will simply be a 'No Frills' tank going in and not coming out sort of thing.

So, unfortunately there won't be any refreshments served en route by the Trolley Dolly. Sorry.

Ron

 

[Mini Me]

Tell It to JR. he's always whining about refreshments.!

 

[monica]

very nice start to this one loving the tanks

 

[rtfoe]

Great start Ron and nice paintwork on the outpost. I'm in for the budget ride with no frills but you do provide masks and hand sanitizers right?

Cheers,
Richard

 

[spanner570]

Thanks folks.

Here's the next stage of the O.P. build.

I had intended to leave it as above, but then decided it needed livening up a tad, so.....

An old concrete telephone pole (part of a tank track alignment thingy) and cut off wires from some sewing thread.
A 'posh' radio antenna, made from a Tiger I steel hawser and bits from the bomb bay of my Lancaster bomber model that I didn't need.
To give summat for the Observers to do when they were bored, their C.O. gave them some blue and beige paint... "Paint the top bit!"






Just though, it needs some sort of internal ladder to allow access to the roof. - Numpty!

Thanks for looking.
Ron

 

[Deleted member 7181]

Cracking stuff Ron. You never cease to amaze!

 

[Jim R]

Hi Ron
Always great stuff.
Jim