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Here is an example of the nifty markings one can have from Rad Schuhart’s paint masks. This is a Torro Russian KV-2, representing one captured by the Germans, who repainted it Dunkelgrau and modified with a better commander’s hatch, and ammunition and fuel/water stowage.

Unfortunately, I cannot recall where I read that one or two of the 334+ KV-2 manufactured had been captured by the Germans and then re-captured by Russians. My only book dedicated to the KV tanks is:

Zaloga, Steven J. and Jim Kinnear. KV-1 and 2 Heavy Tanks. Osprey/New Vanguard. 1995. ISBN978-1-85532-496-1.

Thanks to Rad’s great masks, my imagined re-captured KV-2 reads “Prodigal Son” on both sides of the turret.
Then, too, Rad provided extra mask goodies, some of which I have in storage for future projects, and one of which I used to put a Red Star on the rear turret loading hatch. Thanks Rad! What fun!

Nice clean lines on the stencils. Great looking tank but I never understood what the Russians were thinking with that turret design!

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The KV-2's turret was to fit the big gun. The KV-2 was not intended for tank-to-tank combat or troop support so much as for block-busting--knocking through and knocking down fortifications such as those made of thick cement (Zaloga and Kinnear 12). Despite its skyscraper turret (Ja, Heini! Sieh da: ist's so groß! Schieß mal), one of the KV-2s "stalled the 6th Panzer Division for several days" (Zaloga and Kinnear 10)