I made it from March to July 2008.
I’ll make the KV-2 tank captured by the German army.
（2008/03/30）
I could quickly assemble it because there were not many parts like German tanks.
（2008/04/12）
Ｉ’m now crazy about the Zimmerit Coating roller. I imagine this captured KV-2 was remodeled and given the coating around the autumn of 1943. There might have been a vehicle that had survived tenaciously in the north of Yugoslavia or Norway, in which the battle front line did not drastically move so much.
It is a tricky atmosphere. I can’t say whether it is Germany or the Soviet Union. But it looks powerful.
At the back of the turret, I also quickly gave the coating. The German army has a shell rack, a spare jerrican, and an additional rack.
Ｉ made the pistol port by myself. And spare caterpillar was also attached on the turret side like Tiger II.
An original hatch was made in an open state.
（2008/04/20）
Base paint of dark yellow.
（2008/05/17)
It is fiction; I painted like this to refer to Ferdinand’s camouflage painting of the Kursk battle, the 654th heavy tank destroyer battalion. It is self-confident, but this camouflage painting is good-looking and matches with a big turret and body as Ferdinand.
（2008/05/18)
The tank commander and his assistant at the hatch of KV-2. It seems to take aboard on a U-boat since the turret is pretty at a high position.
（2008/05/25)
I tested the method of making the arm with the woody putty, which was introduced in Armor Modeling Magazine. I noticed that I forgot to remove the parting line of the officer’s hand…
（2008/05/25)
I made this Russian-captured KV-2 tank.
Whether it existed, I had given Zimmerit Coating, a German tank characteristic point.
The painting was made of two-color camouflage of dark yellow and dark green which I referred to from the Kursk battle’s Ferdinand.
Since KV-2 could store only 36 shells in the car, they might have applied the spare shell rack on the back of the body. I painted the jerrican as the accent in gray since there were a lot of dark yellow parts on this body.
Ｉ had painted the intake vent net black; then, it was dry brushed with silver.
The figure is from a tank soldier rest set of Tamiya.
It was challenging to make the sleeve wrinkle from the epoxy putty. There were too many wrinkles, I suppose.
Since the crew turned around this massive turret by hand power, it must be hard work and tiring. A German army might not have been able to remodel an automatic turn system.
The total height is about 3.3m, and it’s more than the floor of a two-story house.
It is easily assembled, not so many parts in the Trumpeter’s KV series; I can recommend this model to all AFV fans. It’s good practice for me to coat a big area this time.
（2008/07/12)
