Yes you heard it right. Work this kit just today for 4 hours straight.


If ideal conditions are met, all these parts are ready for priming and painting tomorrow.


As you can see, I even applied texturing on the turret.

Nice going! 4 hours? So you've built another couple too then? :-)

Vinnie

Maybe :-) :-) KV is soooo addictive! This is my 3rd so far :-)

Are you using the rubber tracks for this ??

4 hours, that's quite impressive.

What did you use for texturing the turret?

Whick KV1 kit is it? Trumpeter makes so many gosh darn KV1s

Sorry for the delayed reply.

Jan, yep. Rubber tracks are in for me. The link and length looks too uniform to me.

Jesper, I just use Mr. Surfacer 500 in bottle. Apply it like mad then sand them a bit with a grit 400 sandpaper

Alan, this is the heavy cast turret one

Well, ideal conditions were not met. It rained today so I'll paint tomorrow

And so it continues


First coat of green (dark pic)


Second coat of green (you can see the contrast between colors


Does this looks like a KV to you?

Next stop: Overcoat, wash, weathering and another overcoat

Time elapsed on painting. 2 hours

And finally


Time elapsed: 2 hours.

Total time:

Build - 4
Paint - 2
Weather and finishing touches - 2

Trumpeter KV-1 Heavy Cast Turret = 8 hours worth

More and better pics tomorrow

Would you look at that? One big happy Soviet family! :-) :-) :-)

Impressive build.Looking at the cabinet of models,you need the other KV 2. (++)