Dear fellow modellers,

Recently I threw away some models. These models will be replaced by some (hopefully) better models and this one is the first.

It was an easy kit to build and this stage was finished within a week. The painting took about 5 hours to accomplish. Still need to be weathered though!

Hope you like it!








Regards, Hilbert

Great job on the pre-shading, it looks really good so far...keep posting updates please!

Good job on the basecoat. Let the weathering begin!

Dear Modellers,

It is just a small update and I started with the weathering. I did apply some fading first. Did not like it but I have to live with it. Although, it turned out really well. Then some washes and scratches. It is a bare model now. It is not contrast-full. I will add that with some dust washes.

hope you like it and some comments are much appreciated!








Sorry for the bad pictures.

Hilbert

Hi Hilbert...nice work on the painting and weathering.

A couple of points...and no I don't expect you to make changes at this point

The KV s bolshoiy bashniy as represented by the Trumpeter kit had the stowage boxes arranged with two on the left-hand side and one on the right. Trumpeter got this wrong in the kit instructions.

The rearmost pair of lifting eyes on the transmission compartment roof plate should not be there. The only vehicle I've seen with them fitted is the KV-1 at the CAF Museum in Moscow, which was used to test the idea of fitting them to the up-armored Model 1942 hull at the end of 1941. They should not be there on a KV s bolshoiy bashniy .

Check out www.4bogreen.com for a full list of tweaks for this kit.

Cheers,

Neil

Thanks for the link! I definitely not making any changes now. I'm to far with the progress. But it is good to know if I want to build an other KV.

Thanks!