Sal: looking good there my american brother . How are the decals coming along?



Paul

@JOHN,
Be carefull with the fitting.......

Paul;

OK - I have a chance to get one of those Tamiya Finnish BT-42 kits - a captured ex-Soviet (Red Army) Russian BT-7 converted by the Finns to a sort of howitzer-assault gun/tank - for a fair price.

Would this be a fair player HERE in this campaign?

PLEASE Tell me "YES!" so that I can rush out and own it and build it right now while I have some time and little else needing to get done!

Bob

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Paul;

OK - I have a chance to get one of those Tamiya Finnish BT-42 kits - a captured ex-Soviet (Red Army) Russian BT-7 converted by the Finns to a sort of howitzer-assault gun/tank - for a fair price.

Would this be a fair player HERE in this campaign?

PLEASE Tell me "YES!" so that I can rush out and own it and build it right now while I have some time and little else needing to get done!

Bob

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I think it's a YES but Paul is the man

Look forward to more painting John

KV-2 Model 1940 PzKpfw KW II 754 (r), Panzerkompanie (z.b.v.) 66, Malta invasion force, 1941
In the spring of 1941. the Wehrmacht was debating whether to invade British-held Crete or Malta as part of their Mediterranean campaign. In the wake of the summer invasion of the Soviet Union, several KV-2 tanks were captured intact, and seemed ideally suited to serve as bunker busters for operations on Malta. Several KV-2s along with some captured T-34s were formed into a special company of (z.b.v.) 66 for the Malta operation. In the event, the high costs of Operation Merkur against Crete led to the Germans abandoning plans to invade Malta. The KV-2s were later committed to the fighting near Demyansk in August 1942. The KV-2s selected tor Malta were painted in the March 1941 tropical camouflage scheme of RAL 8000 Gelbbraun (Yellow-brown) and RAL 7008 Graubraun (Gray-brown). They carried the usual national insignia, and were modified with an added PzKpfw III commander's cupola.