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.
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)
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.
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)
I am interested in models of tanks, airplanes, ships, military figures, I build them little by little when I feel like it. I am also interested in the history of war. My starting is Tamiya’s Military Miniature series in elementary school.
From elementary school through university students repeatedly suspend and restart my modeling, it’s about 25 years of this hobby’s history.
From February 2007 I was quietly doing a site called “Miniature-Arcadia”. It is being transferred to this blog with the same name from December 2016. My update pace is uneven, but please come to see me here occasionally.