Egyptian Army SU 152

Hey Bill, glad to see this one. Glad you dabbled with the dark -side as well. Hope to see more from you.

love the sun and the big shadows. a little photoshop magic and you could pass it off for a real picture.

Hey thanks silk-guy.

We all had a good time in the Orphaned Armor GB.

I was scared of building any armor because it's been a while and everyone here is so good.

It's a Dragon 3 in 1 kit that wasn't very expensive and came with a Russian sniper figure set and a set of Magic Tracks. I also ordered an Aber 152mm barrel set at the same time. When I got the model I'd have to say, the aluminum barrel is gorgeous, but the kit barrels (including a couple of 122's) were also perfectly usable.

I remembered Karl Logan had a tutorial of individual track length construction, so I looked that up. It worked well, gluing all the links together, waiting 45 minutes and wrapping them around the wheels. My only goof there was that he suggested leaving the outer halves of the wheels off. I put it all together before I read the articles, but it still was pretty easy to get to work.

My weathering skills are definitely "needs more rust". I am an old "sludge washer".

So the bug bit, sure.

I'm looking at a Centurion, or perhaps an Egyptian Sherman, the one with the AMX turret.

Well done on that ugly beast! Way off the beaten path to see pretty much anything Egyptian on here!

Thanks yes I think "recruited will work". Add a tanker and I'll be in business.

Well done!

There are lots of suitable figs out there wearing the appropriate head gear, and I suppose it could be possible to pose the figs you have as "observing" infantry, or recruited" to help load ammo....

Great looking scene.Love the SU,nice seeing the diffrent markings and setting.Which Dragon kit ?

I love oddball, out of the way subjects!  I don't have an ISU-152 in my stash but looking at yours, made me start researching other Egyptian army vehicles -- maybe I can find something that wouldn't require me to go out and buy another kit....

Thanks for the props.

Roy, that's good to know and thank you.

The inside hatch color is a subtlety I would never have figured out.

As for the guys and their gear, I got carried away looking at a bunch of pictures of infantry rounded up by guys with Uzis.

I'd suspect their headgear is all wrong for tanker crews too, probably should be those ribbed Russian helmets.

I'll probably ditch them or reassign them to an infantry weapon.

Very interesting subject matter!  Bravo!

May I make two suggestions?  The inside face of the roof hatch would not be painted white -- but the same as the exterior color.  The white would make it too visible to enemy observation.  

Secondly, tank and artillery crews typically did not wear any sort of webbing or canteens or pouches hanging off their belts.  Working inside an AFV or near an artillery piece, you want nothing that can snag the moving parts around you.  The Tamiya mortar crew, while found in the SP Mortar carrier, were deemed armored infantry and were so equipped b/c they were to operate on the ground rather than as APC crewmen.

It's nice to see a different variation like an Egytian SU-152. Well done!

For a moment I thought those were pics of the real thing, very impressive!

Looks great! Nice job!