You are correct, Professor--there was some wincing--and underside dremelling--to free up a bunch of the parts. The KV-2 is pretty sparse photos and imagewise, but I guess with only a few hundred made, and a nasty time of the war to be pausing to take some selfies with your tank, it's understandable! Like yourself, I've got a couple of KV books to comb, and the rest is here and there in other references. Based on the photo and caption below, my time period choice of late-winter '42 makes my KV-2 the last of the line. I will fill in the holes I've made with care and pride for the Motherland!Herr Dr. Professor wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:14 am "Less of a 'tank build,' and more of a 'tank stripdown' ": that's a good description of my first steps with the Pershing, too. I found that some of the Taigen parts came off quite easily, as if they were just pressed into holes without any glue at all. Others were stubborn critters. I would have been wincing as I removed the added armor on the KV. I have a book or two (not much) on the KV tanks. I wish there were more information out there.
Ah, Meter rat, in Wisconsin we call the "Wood Rats" because they annually commit automobile suicide by the thousands. My insurance agent called the one that hit me a "natural disaster," covered under my policy like storm damage.
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And no nicknames for deer in my area except @#$%&^. Deer-vehicle collisions are so frequent in our county that the police get the details over the phone, and unless an officer is nearby to attend, just send you the report number for your insurance company. Darn things are never like "a deer caught in the headlights", they just sproing out at you from the ditch when you're 5m from them!
Mike.
...anyway, I read in some book that some KV-2s were captured by the Germans and recovered by the Russian.