Hy to all!

Since I thought that the Russo-Soviet Forum might would be the wrong to present an Iraqi tank (even if the tank actually is russian produced) I just wanted to let you know that I posted some pics over on the "Constructive Feedback" forum.

Hope you guys like it and please feel free to comment it.

Best regards,

Andy T.

Hy Gary!

Thanks for your nice response!

Best regards,

Andy T.

Lovely peace of russian armour.
Very nicely built indeed....simply splendid

For the lazy ones among us: https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/100008&page=1

Very well done!

Hy! (Sorry, I just love those smiles! )

Thanks Christian and Kevin for taking the time to comment my model. And thanks Kevin for the link, I somehow overlooked that option........

Best regards,

Andy T.

Andy-
Very nice build! I especially like your weathering techniques- quite life like actually.

I do have one point though, it looks as though you used a length of cable for your electrical conduit to the lights on the front glacis- it should be solid and a bit smaller in diameter.

How was the Verlinden set? Did it go together without a hitch?

Again, NICE work.

Chris

Hy Chris!

Thanks a lot for your very nice and constructive response.

If you have the possibility to buy other Enigma-conversions then do it! (Okay, to be honest I don´t know how the AEF ones look)

The Verlinden conversion, because of its age, has many problems. Actually you have to scratch the montage points for the turret and side armor......Weld seems are missing etc. fitting on the Tamiya kit wasn´t that easy as well, I think this is because it originally was designed for the ESCI kit. But with some references and Evergreen you can solve all those problems more or less easily.

Best regards,

Andy T.

I have the Darlington Publications "A trip to the zoo - Iraqi Armored vehicles" and it has great shotsof the actual vehicles; theyre great evn in b&w!

I have always wanted to build one and thre's certainly alot of choices- Cromwell, AA, VLS,AEF(sigh!!)....... tooo bad they wern't worth a [auto-censored]- sand /and/or water wouldn't stop a KE or HEAT round anyway!

Chris

Actually Chris, several of them had the rubber/plate/resin mixture similar to the layered armour of a T-72 glacis. Several others were indeed filled with just plain sand!

Several people who wandered across them in ODS, either in the field or in the "zoo", said that the ones with the proper filler probably would have been fairly effective, especially against HEAT rounds. At least for a round or two! On the other hand, their optics and FCS were as sucky as a normal Iraqi T-55, so no real threat there...

These tanks were built as regimental command tanks, so there were not a lot of them either...