Russian Heavy JS-2 ( IS-2)

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c.rainford73
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Russian Heavy JS-2 ( IS-2)

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Here is another piece I have been working on with the help of Mr MichaelC Stian (Maxmekker) and Mr Tankbear (Ian) from the forum. Micheal built and designed this from a very unconventional setup. He combined a Heng Long lower with a Tamiya upper and a cast resin turret with a custom metal barrel and muzzle break. It has servo recoil. He calls it a poor man's JS-2.

Has resin road wheel details and much more. Mike can properly explain anything I've left out.

It has the rctanksaustralia battle unit mated to the IR system.

Ian worked behind the scenes creating excellent soundfiles for this particular piece and I installed the IBU2U he shipped me. I mounted the IBU with plastic circuit board standoffs to make it easier to get to the SD card and keep the board cool. It now has remote volume control and mated to my turnigy 9xrpro radio I can start and stop the engine with the flick of a switch and control many other functions like the smoker lights and volume from different pots and switches. Three different Russian machine gun sounds and three different Russian large cannon soundsImage

Changing the inertia curves, rate of recoil volume and smoker setting are a piece of cake with the computer.Image

While I was working on this I took it all apart and remodeled the lower hull interior to accomplish fitting the larger speaker and enclosure from Maxmekker and mated it to the IBU. It has a Tarr smoker routed to the upper hull superstructure.

I repainted everything with Tamiya enamels airbrushed as a base coat with many layers of wash with some gun metal dry pigments. Mig oil streaking grime and dark brown wash finished the model. The numbers are hand painted along with the identification stripes. I will post some video soon.

MichealC has been a very good friend through the whole process of purchase to final details. Very lucky to have people like Mike Ian and Stian a click awayImage

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A great version of this "blunt force trauma" weapon system !
Cruder than a 'Kevin Bloody Wilson' concert and twice as better looking !!
HL JAGDPANTHER,HL TIGER 1,HL PzIII MUNITIONSCHLEPPER, HL KT OCTOPUS,HL PANTHER ZU-FUSS,HL STuG III,HL T34/85 BEDSPRING,
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HERMAN BIX wrote:A great version of this "blunt force trauma" weapon system !
Cruder than a 'Kevin Bloody Wilson' concert and twice as better looking !!
Thanks Mr Bix it sounds and looks so much better now that you describe it as you do ( has anyone told you that you have a way with the English languageImage)
Aside from the coveted Tiger tanks I find these do have a very sinister and rough ugliness that make them good looking armour.

Had to keep this one Russian ......although I do like Russian armour that has been captured and touched up by the Germans.... I happened across one such IS-2 online

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Good evening, Carl!
Another beautiful upgrade of an existing Build! Michael does great work and you have managed to bring a brighter shine to the diamond ( even if it is a rough, cast steel one ) *chuckles* Looking forward to a little video of this one in action.
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Re: Russian Heavy JS-2 ( IS-2)

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PainlessWolf wrote:Good evening, Carl!
Another beautiful upgrade of an existing Build! Michael does great work and you have managed to bring a brighter shine to the diamond ( even if it is a rough, cast steel one ) *chuckles* Looking forward to a little video of this one in action.
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Thank you Mr Painless.Image I was working out some kinks in my upgrades this afternoon and although I badly wanted to shoot a video I ran out of daylight and snapped a few pictures. Shame as the soundfiles Ian added to the IBU2 Ultimate did not disappoint!! Very impressive stuff for sure that I will share very soon.
( kinda like the old sitcoms we would watch as kids that had two parts and would leave us hanging for a week :crazy:)

Anyhow in my over-active tanker mind....

I did however finally run the Clark tk60 board from Maxmekker in the Jackson and posted that in the show off section of the forum. Image I was able to get that running earlier and was also impressed with that too!



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Re: Russian Heavy JS-2 ( IS-2)

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Brutal looking tank, paintjob looks great, most impressive.

regards john :thumbup:
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Re: Russian Heavy JS-2 ( IS-2)

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c.rainford73 wrote:
HERMAN BIX wrote:A great version of this "blunt force trauma" weapon system !
Cruder than a 'Kevin Bloody Wilson' concert and twice as better looking !!
Thanks Mr Bix it sounds and looks so much better now that you describe it as you do ( has anyone told you that you have a way with the English languageImage)
Aside from the coveted Tiger tanks I find these do have a very sinister and rough ugliness that make them good looking armour.

Had to keep this one Russian ......although I do like Russian armour that has been captured and touched up by the Germans.... I happened across one such IS-2 online

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Surprisingly ?.........Yes :{
I believe the term was "verbose and vulgar" ..........but hey, honest and brutally direct can be an attribute too, cant they ?
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HL PZIV MALTA,MATORRO JAGDTIGER,HL F05 TIGER,TAMIYA KT,HL PANTHERDOZER,HL EARLY PANTHER G,TAIGEN/RAMINATOR T34/76,
HL AN-BRI-RAM SU-85
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Fab looking JS-2, really nice work on the paint... I bet it sounds great :thumbup:
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Paint dirt and grime looks the business :thumbup:
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Thanks for the kind words fellas.

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