A lovely kit from the fine
folks at PST, who hail from somewhere far away and formerly
communist - I think. Don't quote me on that.
The Kv-ll was somewhat unsuccessful, but it was a nice
idea. Let's put a monstrous turret with a freakin' HUGE
gun poking out of it on a Kv hull and hope like hell it
doesn't fall over on a steep incline. Actually, they did
inflict some nasty damage to German armour, but the Kv-ll
was plagued by mechanical problems, not least of which
was a weak transmission.
As a point of interest, the script on the turret is Russian
for "Aim Here". Well okay, I can't back that up, but it
makes a change from "We Brake for Stalin", or "My other
tank is a T-34". **
I built this pretty much
straight from the box except for the tow cables which
are cut from lead-out wires for control line planes, replaced
the handles on the turret with .010" plastic rod and drilled
out the ends of the guns and exhausts.
The kit is nicely detailed and goes together with no problems
with the exception of the road wheels which are moulded
slightly out of round. I shoved a piece of brass tube
in each pair and then chucked them in my Dremel moto-tool
and sanded them into submission, komrades.
**A
viewer in Russia recently informed me that the real translation
is "strong", so now you know.
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