LAST OF ITS KIND

[HERMAN BIX]

Love This! KV-2 is always amazing! what is the final paint going to be?

This one

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[RiskyR]

Going to look superb once it's done. Love the attention to detail regarding the air vents on the ending deck!

[Jnewboy]

Love This! KV-2 is always amazing! what is the final paint going to be?

This one

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Oh thats going to be amazing!! a secret to KV2s is to do them in Winter camo, the white makes it look larger and when next to a kv1 with normal odb camo it looks like an even larger monster! Nightshift goes step by step to achieve an unbelievable finish!

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[HERMAN BIX]

Im a big follower of ole Uncle Nightshift too.
I like his work in general, but this white wash was a bit over the top for me. The sole period picture does not show it as distressed, but I concede that days later the thing may have had a lot more wear on it.
I will give your magic grime a go too, the stuff for whitewashed vehicles.
Being this particular machine was so unusual at the time, being a KV-2 at so late in the conflict outside Leningrad, with the paint, armour, numbers etc etc, its a great subject for a build and is quite a popular subject in the 1/35th scale.
There are a few accounts of its action and demise around, but none seem to really definitively refer back to this machine with any certainty.
Well none that I can find anyway....................
You guys with them ole fashioned book-thingo's might have more info !!

[HERMAN BIX]

First time user of Tamiya Epoxy Putty quick type.
Thought that I would give the stuff a run with little consequence and hope its better to use than Miliput(stuG build PTSD )
Its easy to blend, and even easier to roll into thin sausages, but gee wizz- the stuff is sticky.
Even keeping my fingers wet it still wanted to stick to everything EXCEPT the model !!
Once I got a feel for it and how it need to be manipulated it went on easy and held in place well.
i used a constantly soaked skewer to get it into texture and all the nooks & crannies.
No residue on fingers or tools, no lumps, and better- a little goes a really long way.
Still loads of weld to do, but for my first go at using a compound rather than a hot screwdriver, I'm pretty happy.

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[Jnewboy]

I will give your magic grime a go too, the stuff for whitewashed vehicles.

Should come out great!!! Looking forward to seeing it!!

[HERMAN BIX]

I will give your magic grime a go too, the stuff for whitewashed vehicles.

Should come out great!!! Looking forward to seeing it!!

thanks Mr Newboy, I hope so.

[HERMAN BIX]

been getting along with the weld infills using Tamiyas Epoxy Putty. Its great stuff, but there is just a lot to do.
I hucked out some grooves around the mantlet to accept the putty without it being too proud over the surface, which is more effort than the hot screwdriver method, but I'm trying.
As I have said before, its not a race.

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[PainlessWolf]

Good Morning, Herman,
As all of these were built early and before the War, their weld lines and armor panels were built to a high level of precision. Any add-ons were rushed and nowhere near earlier standards of production. It is turning out great!
regards,
Painless

[HERMAN BIX]

Good Morning, Herman,
As all of these were built early and before the War, their weld lines and armor panels were built to a high level of precision. Any add-ons were rushed and nowhere near earlier standards of production. It is turning out great!
regards,
Painless

Thanks for looking in Mr Wolf, good to see you up & about and back into mischief!!
The walk around pictures of these now rare machines do all show very clean welds and a modicum of plate cutting marks, nowhere near the state of later Soviet tanks by far.
The H/L Kv-2 is accurate enough where it counts but lacks a lot of welds in areas that really needs them. The drivers hatch on this also opens to the side where the real tanks one opens forward. I decided that this modification was not necessary as the hatch is only going to be opened to access the on/off switch, and once I remove the convenient but inaccurate handle from it, you'd never be the wiser as to its opening direction !!
Having only one known period picture of only one side of this vehicle does allow a degree of artistic licence, but plausibility needs to be retained at all times.