I started work on the Trumpeter KV-II and have a question regarding the barrel.

Is it supposed to have the two grooves that are molded into the tube?

I would like to replace it with a metal barrel but I am uncertain as to which one to purchase.

Any recommendations as to which aftermarket barrel is the most accurate?

Thanks.

Matt

It depends on which version of KV-2 you are building. Or actually, how picky do you want to be. The gun of KV-2 mod.1940 had two grooves. The mod. of 1941 had one groove or none at all. But tanks of 1940 were later upgraded with newer gun, so you can see newer gun on early tanks.
So what I am trying to say with all that "blah-blah", if you are building KV-2 with the version of a turret of 1941 don't put two-grooves barrel. For mod. 1940 - anything goes.

No.
The barrels did have jackets made of two or three parts however these sections butted together tightly and the joints are nearly impossible to see.
In fact the only photo I know of where the seams are obvious is of a gun that has been hit by an AT round causing a section of the jacket to crack.
If anything the joints should be represented as the thinnest, shallowest lines possible and not the deep grooves the kit has.

Mark

Alex & Mark,

Thank you for your replies.

KV-2s from the first production run didn't have a reinforcing ring on the muzzle either



David