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[Image] Ready to hold the Purple Line... Continuing with the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge submissions, here is a pair of 15mm IDF Centurion Sho't Kals, the main IDF tank from the 1973 battle on the Golan Heights.  These are Peter Pig models, with some slight adjustments.

[Image] Chunky Centurions from Peter Pig These are the "generic" Centurions from Peter Pig - not the Centurions from their modern IDF range.  The IDF Peter Pig Centurions have ERA and thermal sleeves on the gun - equipment from the war in Lebanon.  Those features were not in the field in 1973, so I used the generic tank.  I cut off the smoke launchers, and added some stowage, cupola MGs and cards on the rear turret for the Israeli tactical numbers.

[Image] Tactical numbers were mounted on cards or sections of cloth and hung from the back of the turret [Image] The commander and the .30 cals were extras from Peter Pig These tanks raise my IDF Centurion complement to five MBTs - a spartan amount, but just right for  scenarios featuring a desperate defence of the "Purple Line".  I would like to add a few more, and then put some Ishermans on to the table.  But one thing at a time...