WATCHING.

GreySnake

I don’t think Egypt had that version of the T-62 during the YKW instead were using mod. 1967’s instead. All the pictures I can find of Egyptian T-62’s show the early version without the mount for the AA gun the mod. 1972 has. Of course I may be wrong as Soviet tanks get confusing.

 

I think you're right, and the AA MG is really nice too, nice enough that I want to use it. So......  I dunno.

Nice work!!! 

I little confused though- are those tracks Fruils? They look plastic to me. Do they make plastic track links now or are my eyes messed up? 

Those are Friuls, after a good soak in muriatic acid. The kit tracks are good, but Friuls make me happy.

I got busy at work so not a lot of progress to show, but a half hour here and there has gotten the turret moving along.

IMG_3995 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

The turret grab rails in the kit are plastic, nicely done and in scale but I'm pretty rough with things so I made a jig and bent up four using brass rod. The rest of the brass visible is kit-supplied. The snorkel tube container is the old Verlinden item, lnot used in my Tamiya build. It's actually better then the Trump kit part(s), so I went with it.

I think I'm about ready to paint:

IMG_4023 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

IMG_4022 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

I haven't decided if I'm going to use any stowage, still browsing for pics.

Looks fantastic Russ. I built the old tamiya kit many years ago. I love the T55/T62 series, there is just something about them.

It's coming along very nicely. 

Ohhhh, that looks sharp!!! 

Thanks for the info about the muriatic acid. I'd heard of people using it on metal tracks but not what they'd look like afterward.