I have just purchased the trumpeter kv1 heavy Cast Turret,i am planning a small dio and have a few questions im hoping people here might know.

1-What period of the war would this model have been used from and to?

2-What would have been the base colour of the tank on production?

3-Would external fuel cylinder have been fitted and also stowage?

4-The front right hatch above the mounted machinegun,would this be the drivers hatch?

sorry for so many questions but i am more of a figure man,i just loved the look of this tank and decided to build it.

Steve

http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/kv2/kv2.htm

this site should answer some of your questions

To answer the only one I can at this moment, there are relatively few photos of Soviet tanks carrying external stowage. The norm seems to be a bare tank.

Thanks guys its a start for me.

Steve

Hi Steve,

if you refer on 00359, it could be placed from early '42 through '43. Maybe some even later, but they would not have been a typical sight.

Base color definitly russian green, field applied white distemper or brown blotches possible.

Fuel tanks could be seen quite often, maybe a tarp (often fixed on the left fender) or a log here and there, but not as busy as later tanks.

KV-1 crews didn't have a lot of hatches, so bailing out in case of emergency would have been disastrous... The upper-front hull hatch is located above the radio-operaters head, the driver was located more to the middle.

HTH

Volker

Thanks Volker thats a big help,i will go for the green basecoat and i might possibly go for a white wash over it for a winter cammo scene.

Steve