Desert Weathering on Vehicles

[jasevx]

Quite a few asked me for photos of Desert Camo schemes and weathering. so here are some of my photos from the First Gulf War.



ZSU 23-4, used by us when we found it still operational.



FUCHS NBC vehicle



Regimental HQ, my landy being in the centre.



The Crew on a captured T-55. tell how long I was there, I had a crew cut when I went!

Hope these lot help those doing Desert cam, just for you SC!

[schoolcormorant]

thanks Jase how awesome is that moustache

"tally ho chaps lets kill us something then eat it's brain"
"righto fella"

SC

[jasevx]

Strange you say that, the commander of the ZSU had his spread all over the turret when we found it, took some cleaning!

Missus won't let me grow one now! Says I look like a gay porn star!

[schoolcormorant]

wait until you're a bit older and she'll be the one with the moustache

return the joke and see how she likes it

SC

[jasevx]

This is 'gay porn stars' long suffering missus. I'll have u no i've already got a 'tash' to be proud of! it just happens not to be ginger!

[schoolcormorant]

*acts innocently*


SC

[sheep]

LOL, good one SC, now jase won't be allowed to come round for a sleep over

Good looking pics jase, how long did you get to keep the tanks for?

Cheers

Sheep

[jasevx]

Erm, there isn't a bigger thief than the british army! Whereas we carry our own vehicle mechanics, the Americans don't they leave them where they break down for the 2nd echelon to fix and return. So we kept finding broken American AFV's, fixed them and took them for ourselves

By the end of the War, we had:

2 x USA 6 tonners
2 x USA Armoured Tracked Supply vehicles (538's)
1 x Syrian 14 ton truck
1 x Iraqi ZSU 23-4
2 x Land Cruisers (aquired!)

After finding out Hummers don't have keys (starting button), the US Army had 50 stolen in the first 24 hours, don't know where they went!

[Railgunner]

This thread is great...for the pictures and the laughs!!
Do you by any chance have any pictures of vehicles in an urban environment?

RG

[Penguin of Death]

I had friends in the British army who "aquired" a Hummer in a game of cards, they bet their Landy against it

[jasevx]

http://www.emlra.org/images/photos/B...ins_parade.jpg

Thats a Chieftain of the Berlin Brigade, the camo hasn't been improved on since, but instead of painting the vehicles, we have cam nets with it on now (we don't have a dedicated urban fighting unit anymore, which the Berlin Brigade was)

[sheep]

I love the british sense of propriety

With all that foreign equipment didn't you increase your chance of getting strafed by A10's?

Cheers

Sheep

[jasevx]

No the A10's only fired at British vehicles (I was involved in that incident, I had to get the medivac to them, and a mate was the A-10's FAC so had to spend a year being court marshalled before the video footage was leaked and he was cleared). I love working with the US Military but the ANG are a bunch of cowboys!

Right some more pics if it helps!



Iraqi BRDM-2 Rkh (and they didn't have chemical weapons, yer right!)



Crashed RN Sea King, note the exhaust weathering on the rear fuselage, can be used with vehicles too.



My recce vehicle, yes after we scrapped the armoured ferret, the replaced it with Landies, very bullet proof!
Notice the Kit, my vehicle was twice the official kerb weight and never bogged down, Hummers look great but are crap x-country!



The famous Hammerbeck Challenger, destroyed an Iraqi Tank Battalion on its own. 15 kills in an hour!

[tortoise]

Incredible sense of scale and great zenithal lighting effects on those models. Very realistic bases too.

Sorry, someone had to say it.

[hofzinser]

I like their bases but find the paint job very unrealistic. You should compare the models above to actual pictures of the real thing.

[jasevx]

Who says Warseer has no sense of humour!

[schoolcormorant]

wow, i have to admit i have no knowledge of tanks, i know they have...tracks...some of them....

thing is, the first picture in post 13, you said yer right about them having chemical weapons...what did you mean

everything you've showed us just kind of makes me think you had a great time tearing through the desert shooting things..

SC

[Railgunner]

Whats the story behind the hammerbeck challenger?

RG

[jasevx]

wow, i have to admit i have no knowledge of tanks, i know they have...tracks...some of them....

thing is, the first picture in post 13, you said yer right about them having chemical weapons...what did you mean

everything you've showed us just kind of makes me think you had a great time tearing through the desert shooting things..

SC

Rkn mean Chemical Warfare Recce in Russian, those bins on the back are full of flags which are dispensed either side when the vehicle finds a 'safe' route through a contaminated area. You only have these type of vehicles when you're willing to use the weapons yourself.

Railgunner, the Hammerbeck Challenger.

The Brigadier (Hammerbeck) was a God Fearing Brute of a man, scared the crap out of me, and being a tankie demanded to have a Challenger fitted out as a command post instead of using the usual FV 436.

When the movement orders were sent there was break down in comms and the Battlegroups didn't get the order, so we had the the Brigade HQ in front of the tanks facing a battalion of T-55's!

Realising the British were about to lose in Command and Control half the army, the Brigadier in a very Rommel action, opened his cupola, shouted 'in God we trust' and took the single tank into the middle of the Iragi tank Battalion, destroying 15 before the rest withdrew. His actions stopped what would have been the worst military disaster since Dunkirk.

What makes the British Army, fearless officers with men who put there trust in them!

[schoolcormorant]

that...is...the...coolest....thing...ever.

seriously, did he get any medals or anything?

SC