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Saturday, 14 June 2014

October War: Reinforcements Arrive!

My October War project received a big boost yesterday when David Manley sold me his 1/285th Arab-Israeli Wars collection. The vast majority of models are GHQ (including some useful old ones that are OOP) and having sorted them out whilst watching Mexico v Cameroon, I am a very happy bunny...


The Egyptians now have an additional 46 T62's, 10 JS3's, 9 T34-85's, 35 BMP1's, 27 BTR60's, 11 BRDM-1's 28 BRDM-2's, 2 ZSU 57/2's, 4 BTR152's, plus a number of trucks, cars and planes.

The Israelis have 16 Sho't Meteors, 14 Sho't Kals, 5 AMX13's, 7 M48A3 (90mm), 9 M48A5 (105mm), 30 M51 Shermans, 10 M113's, 20 M113 Zeldas, 10 M106's, 5 M577, 5 M7's, 25 M3 half-tracks, 4 jeeps, 4 jeeps with recoilless rifles, 4 25 pounders plus a lot of self propelled artillery, engineering vehicles and planes.

There were also four landing craft and a Bergtiger! :-)

Now I need to sort this out into units and get painting...
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8 comments:

  1. MarkG14 June 2014 at 10:15

    Quite a haul. That will keep you busy!

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  2. PatG14 June 2014 at 11:03

    As the kids say OMG!.....

    lovely haul there sir.

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  3. Monty14 June 2014 at 11:55

    Blimey - nice one!

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  4.  Ashley14 June 2014 at 12:13

    Nice haul of GHQ minis you got yourself there. What rules are you intending to use? And what are the planned ORBATs for each side like?

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  5. Paul O'G14 June 2014 at 12:54

    You doing the whole war in 1:1 scale mate? :-)

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  6. Mr.Marx14 June 2014 at 13:03

    Gaw-eck! Theres a few of them there. MM.

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  7. Pawn Cocktail14 June 2014 at 15:52

    That is an awful lot of armour - what a treasure trove!

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  8. David Manley14 June 2014 at 19:38

    Hope they enjoy their new home :)

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