I started this back in August of 2025. Between a few moves because of a new job and getting married i finally finished my attempt at the famous T-62 disabled in the Golan Heights Tank ditch.
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It captures the look very well.
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@18bravo Thank you, I tried to stay as close to the real picture as possible. If I was to do it again I’d make sure the tracks are buried deeper in the sand than what they are.
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Nice work on the camo. I’m liking it.
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Firstly, congratulations on your new job and especially your marriage Gregory!
The T-62 looks excellent , have one set aside for that very project- maybe a diorama- and yours is very inspiring! I remember when you started it some time ago.
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You could add some more sand under the tracks if you wanted in that one side but still it came great.
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Very nice to see someone model this. I like it.
Just one question: Why the gloss on the running gear?
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@M70 I took pictured while the Matt varnish was setting. I may need to go back and do another coat of it.
@metalhead85 thank you, I can’t wait to see your build when you do it. I think I’m going to go back today and begin adding sand underneath. I also got some pigment for the sand and can add more around the tracks and really dirty them up.
@Robert_Goldman thank you, it was really fun to do! I didn’t worry too much about perfect patterns because the crew had hand painted it.
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That came out really nice
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That was common practice with the Syrian tank crews, even in 82 we came upon tanks that had had painted camo of mud and clay and I do mean hand painted while checking one out I saw hand and finger prints in the now baked on mud and clay.. even the PLO T-34/85’s had it on them in some areas.
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@Robert_Goldman that would be an interesting camo. Almost like a kids finger painting project in kindergarten on a tank.
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Exactly.. I actually did a PLO T-34/84 that we took in south Lebanon and for grins I cut a couple figure hands that I was never going to use and attached them to sticks and applied thicker paint on the brown and grey areas so after a light wash you could see the hand prints it took time but for me it was part of the history of the tank I was building. I wish I had pics of this to show but my old 35mm negatives didn’t last well during all the moves I’ve made in the last 40 years
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never knew the PLO had tanks
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They had a lot of stuff people don’t know about.. but that’s for another time..
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Thanks for the catch on the gloss. Turns out i have three cans of rust-oleum varnish and two of them are a high gloss coverage… ops. Went back and added sand then did a dead flat varnish to cover it. By tonight it should all be set and I’ll post updated pics
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Went back and made some adjustments also added a Matt varnish. It’s still appears to be shiny but that’s because everything is still setting.
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Looks even better now !!
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@bwilt thank you
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So my friend passed away 10 years ago and I’m trying to remember something he told me about 20 years ago. His son joined the Marines and sometime about 20 years ago was on patrol someplace in Iraq. They surprised a group of bad guys doing something around a pump station for a pipeline and killed them. His son said searching the bodies, a couple of the fighters had PLO ID cards. That was about 20 years ago somewhere in iraq, which is the most precise that I can remember. But it is interesting that they found PLO papers on two of the guys.
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@JPTRR wouldn’t surprise me. Seeing as Iran allowed fighters to go between Afghanistan and Iraq I would be surprised if you had some coming for Jihad from the Gaza/ Palestinian areas.
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