Hello, colleagues.
I wish all a Happy New Year!

I want to show the new work on the scale of 1:48.
It is the Soviet heavy IS-4 tank. This tank was made and was on arms of the Soviet army from 1947 to 1954.





I want to make early modification of this tank of 1947. However, I couldn't find good drawings of this tank. It was necessary to use drawings of later modification of IS-4M:



Here, result for today:

Case assembly:


















To be continued.

Excellent work so far, will be watching to see the glory of this completed. (Yeah I like the IS4)

Dmitry,

Scratchbuilding! 1/48! Outstanding work!

You make it look easy.
How many hours to do what is shown?

Superb start on this one, Dmitry. You do this kind of work so well one of the model companies ought to hire you to build masters for them.

Hello.

Colleagues, thanks for positive reviews of my work.

I continue IS-4 tank construction.
I established grids over air vents and fans:





I started creating a tank turret.

The turret of IS-4 has a difficult form.






At first the framework was created:








I created turret sides from the material "Milliput":






I processed sides an emery paper and I simulated armor:







While the model will iron so:






To be continued.

Fantastic build Dmitry; I'll be following.

beautiful.

The work on the turret is very impressive Dmitry, you've nailed the difficult shape perfectly so far.

cheers
Brent

Really, really impressive. What most of us do here is glue pre-made kits together and are proud of them, looking at this makes me feel like a terrible amateur hehe. This is absolutely another level of modelling. Cant wait to see the whole thing finished. Respect for the work and for picking up one of my absolutely favorit machines!

Amazing!!
Really fantastic job Dmitry
Where are defence positions with IS-4 turrets?

Colleagues, many thanks for positive reviews of my model.
Unfortunately, there isn't enough time for a hobby.
But I will try to show all stages of construction of this tank.
If you have questions, I will be glad to answer them (as far as I will be allowed by my bad English... ).

Darío, these turrets were established on IS-4 tanks earlier. In the 60th years almost all IS-4 tanks were in the Far East. After IS-4 was removed from arms of the Soviet army, these tanks turned into motionless armor artillery objects.
All of them settled down on the border line with China (at that time with this country the USSR had difficult political relations).
Some tanks established together with the chassis - the tank engine was taken only. From other part of tanks turrets were removed and these turrets were established on concrete bunkers.

What kind of material are the hull and the turret skeleton made from by the way?

Great work on the turret, Dmitri. I think you more than succeeded capturing the shape and texture.

Michal said what a lot of us are thinking. We piddle around, you model!

Dmitri,

Great job on that turret. Scratchbuilding slab sided stuff can be tricky, but is relatively straight forward if you have good drawings. Replicating the compound curves of items that are castings in real life is much, much more complicated and challenging. You've done a really good job capturing that complex turret shape. Bloody well done.



Pretty sure they are plastic card/sheet. Look to be about 1mm thick or so.

Paul

Michal, Paul, a design of a framework of a turret and the hull are created from Evergreen plastic sheets. Thickness of sheets 1.0, 0.5 and 0.25 of mm.

thanks for the explanation!

Colleagues, hello.
I continue to build this tank.
process of construction of a turret:

I established hand-rail on a turret.





Armor protection of a mask of a gun is ready.



I installed hatches and supervision devices.




The model now looks so:

Hello, colleagues.

I continue JS-4 tank construction.

Running gear.




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Great additions. That's really starting to look the part, now!

Great build. Did you make the tracks, Dmitry, and the running gear and wheels? Or were those AM sets that were bought?

Wheels - from the Tamiya firm JS-2 tank. Tracks - self-made.

Awesome work, really enjoying thanks

this is just pure genius - keep up the good work

You are crazy Dmitry, but it's an awesome build. Keep up the good work.

- Johan