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I bought this used HL KVI with mystery turret many years ago to use as the hull for a KVII, which I'm finally getting on the bench. I'm thinking it's a KV-85 without the turret ring bulge modifications on the hull.


My question is: does anybody know anything about this turret and who manufactured it? It has elevation and some type of recoil installed, but it has never been wired in. Only clues I can find are some Cyrillic-ish markings stamped on the turret interior. Does anything ring a bell with anyone as to where it originated from?
Thanks,
Mike.

Looks to be a custom mod job of the HL T34 turret. The KV-85 has a sloped rear deck like the SU-152 and the KV-1S as all of them used the KV-1S hull. So yeah it kinda looks like a weak attempt at a KV-85, but the KV-85 used an IS turret and not a T34 turret.

Derek

I could never quite find any turret that exactly matched it from the KV lineup, so a T34/85 fabbed up makes sense. I've never seen those kind of markings in a Heng Long turret but it probably goes back 10 years or so.
Thanks Derek,

Mike.

That looks like the original WSN T34 turret from the late 2000's, with a few mods (certainly I recognise the elevation and recoil mech).
The KV turret should be fatter than the T34/85's, but that looks like a /85 turret that somebody just grafted an extra hull machine gun on the back (all be it made quite an expert job of it)