Syrian Army T-34/85 Golan Heights, Six Day War 1967

My Next post.  I had to follow up my first post immediately to see if it would all work out.  The first post was OK.  Let's see how this next one goes now.

My next subject is a Syrian T-34/85.  It is the Tamiya T-34/85 with some conversions.  The biggest part of the project was to create the complicated Syrian anti-aircraft gun mount for DshK 12.7 machinegun.  The turret was an old resin piece from Chesapeke models probably long out of production.  I actually sat inside one of these tanks that was left from the Six Day war.  The tank was sitting along the road to Golan in 1971 and had been a tourist attraction for the past 4 years.  Here's a photo I took of the actual Syrian Tank.  You can notice the turret is in a different position in the second photo, that would be my doing playing with the traverse crank handle. Amazing to finally see one of these in such good condition and open to the public.

Here is a photo of the particular tank that I have modeled.  Inscription in Arabic reads the name of a Syrian martyr: "Hormoz Younis Boutros"

 These are the models I've built to replicate the Syrian Army of 1967 : 1/35 scale Tamiya T-34/85 the turret is an old "Chesapeake Model Design" T-34/85 resin Czech turret.

The anti-aircraft machinegun mounting on the commanders cupola was scratch built and is unique to Syrian-Czech built T-34/85 tanks.



 This is the 1/35 scale "Dragon/ DML"  T-34/85 with some extra detailing and I used "Star Decals" for the Syrian army in 1967 Six Day war.  This tank does not have the 12.7 Dshk AA machinegun mounted on the turret as only the Czech supplied tanks had this feature installed.

An SU-100 tank destroyer.  Also a Dragon/DML  model in 1/35th scale. These markings were hand painted. The photo below was taken in my front yard using a Verlinden middle-eastern building as a background

This last photo was during a photo session and playing around with figures and models to create cool scenes.