A military museum team from Old Buckenham have scooped a top award for their restoration of a Russian anti-aircraft gun.

The team from Battlefront, the East England Military Museum, were presented with the Best Artillery 2015 award at the War and Peace Revival festival in July, a five-day gathering of all things vintage and military.

Allan Devaux, Allan Haine and John Cooper from Battlefront, which is based in hangars at Old Buckenham Airfield, had spent six months meticulously working on the Russian-built ZPU-4, a four-wheeled anti-aircraft gun with four guns attached.

Shaun Hindle, one of the trustees of the museum, said that it had been a lengthy process for the quartet.

'They took it all apart, stripped it down, cleaned out all the old Iraqi desert sand and grease that had turned solid with the heat and repainted and tided it up,' he said.

Despite their efforts, Mr Hindle said their win at the event, which features thousands of military vehicles ranging from tanks to bicycles, came as a surprise.

'It's a massive event, probably the largest of its kind,' he said. 'You've always got to hope to win but we don't go on the gong hunt, it's not why we are doing it.'

The gun was captured by the British Army in Iraq during the first Gulf War and was brought back to a UK museum. It stood there for years before being gifted to Battlefront.

The museum's base at the airfield contains more than 5,000 exhibits. In 2012, it was announced that they would collaborate with the airfield on a new show called Military Revival, which has soared in popularity in the last three years and will this year be held on October 3 and 4.

The team runs and restores ex-military vehicles and equipment from the First World War through to the Cold War period and more recent conflicts.

The ZPU-4 is used by armies all over the world.

If you have an interest in military equipment and military museums and would be keen to become a volunteer or supporter, contact shaun.hindle@btinternet.com

Do you have an unusual Old Buckenham story? Email reporter Lauren Cope on lauren.cope@archant.co.uk