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Trumpeter KV series
Antoon3103
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Antwerpen, Belgium
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Posted: Monday, September 10, 2012 - 05:06 AM UTC
Hello,

I am looking to buy one of trumpeters KV tanks.
Can anyone point me in the direction of an easy to build one?

Thanks
Tony
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Posted: Monday, September 10, 2012 - 06:11 AM UTC
They are all basically the same and so should all be equally as easy to build.
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Posted: Monday, September 10, 2012 - 09:25 AM UTC
I would agree, any of them would be easy enough to build. I have I have 4 different Trumpy KV's, and they all build up more or less the same.
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Posted: Monday, September 10, 2012 - 09:37 AM UTC
I second the other guys. Probably that's one of the best kit made by Trumpeter
They are easy to build, quite cheap and really good. You have plastic track links which replicate the right sag. You don't have to go crazy with the one link tracks and you don't have to use the vinyl tracks which are hard to paint and quite ugly. You can build them OOB but you can get great results. The only thing which would be better to improve in my opinion, are the one piece molded grilles on the engine deck. Morover, If you'd like to try, you could replicate the casting iron surfaces of the turret using some Gunze Mr Surfacer 500.

Get one of them and have fun!
Antoon3103
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Posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 01:25 AM UTC
Gentlemen,

Thank u for the replies.
I will buy one then, and post some build pics here in the Russian forum.
Probably start in october.

Tony
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