Ground forces for the Empires Twilight .

[thedarkmaster]

As part of my onegoing Suez ( have a look at the facebook page ) project I've done a few ground targets to flesh out the timeline, i thought i'd put a few on here see what people think. Tanks cars and lorries etc arn't really my thing and most of these are modifyed dicast but you get the idea.

Portugese Panther V ,4th Independant armoured Regiment, Bitter lakes Area , Egypt 1956/57

Egyption IS2, unknown unit, Bitter lakess area 1957

LVTP of the 1er REC's2e of the French Foreign Legion, supporting the french assault at Suez

more to follow, British and French armour, British soft skins

[NARSES2]

Like the LVTP in particular

[thedarkmaster]

British Landrover and French Jeep of 6th Airbourne Division ( joint unit of commonwealth and French units )

25pdr Field gun, South Notts Hussars, Egypt 1956/58

105mm Sherman of an unknown Foreign Legion unit . Egypt , 1956

British Centurion 5, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, Egypt 1957

[thedarkmaster]

Soft skin vehicles , 23rd Infantry ( North Midlands ) Brigade ( TA ) Egypt 1957

M8 greyhound, French Foreign Legion ( 2nd Bavarian kurassier ) Suez 1956

[thedarkmaster]

Centurion V, Derbyshire yeomanry, central Egypt 1957

[thedarkmaster]

More Soft skin vehicles , 23rd Infantry ( North Midlands ) Brigade ( TA ) Egypt 1957

Soft skin support vehicles , Most major RAF airbases in the middleast 1956-58

[thedarkmaster]

Syrian T34, Border with Israel 1956-58

[benskipper]

Lovely to see homage to SNH and SRY. Well done fellow son of the Dumbles.

[thedarkmaster]

was in the South Notts Hussars as a young lad

[Mike Wren]

lovely set of vehicles 

[benskipper]

was in the South Notts Hussars as a young lad

Were you at St Mary's this year for 11.11.11?

[thedarkmaster]

No mate , real world and family commitments got in the way