I'd just do an OOB Armor, modified Armor, OOB "Other", modified "Other"

"Other" being a wheeled vehicle (armored car, truck, half-track, animal pulled wagon, dude on horse).
"Armor" being a light, medium, or heavy tank, fully tracked SP gun like a StuG, recovery vehicle on former tank chassis, AAA gun on a tank chassis, dude on a horse on a tank chassis, whatever on a tank chassis. Now the RSO would end up being forced into the "Other" categtory.
If on a diorama, then it would be in one of the four main categories based on what was done to the model and not the dio base (hey, it isn't the diorama campaign build).

"K.I.S.S.=Keep It Simple Stupid" are words to live by. Only reason I would break out armor from other are the plethora of miscellaneous wheeled and semi-tracked vehicles that have a wide variety of duties. I mention dude on horse since I saw an DML set with a German soldier on a horse and thought it would be a cool model, if only I could paint a horse.

Dave--How on earth are you going to have time for this with all of the other builds that you have planned? The only one of your planned builds that fits is the KV-2.

I would join in, but I have too many planned builds (T-35, Hornisse, KV-2, Elefant, T-34/85, & Ferdinand) that I won't have time. I would do the KV-2 for the build, but it won't be OOB. I am using Modelkasten tracks, an Armo barrel, Eduard PE, and Eduard fenders.

So, it's OOTB, right? Not even a replacement gun tube?

Anyway, count me in. I have a Tauchpanzer III I think will be good for this build...

It is a shame that we lost those 5 days because I had put together an entire list of all of the acceptable AFVs for both sides and there was some softskin info. provided by others as well. I will go about redoing that list and posting it later today or tomorrow. In the meantime:

Jeff--KV-2 is fine. T-34 would have to be 1940 or 1941 version of which no plastic kits exist. You would have to use the Armo conversion stuff. The 1942 version is named 1942 because that is when it entered into production. That is true of all Soviet stuff so the model year is the year they began producing it.

Ralph--The parameters of the build are any vehicles that would have been used during Operation Barbarossa which we are defining as June 1941 through December 1941. So any German or Soviet stuff from within that time period.

It is a shame that we lost those 5 days because I had put together an entire list of all of the acceptable AFVs for both sides and there was some softskin info. provided by others as well. I will go about redoing that list and posting it later today or tomorrow. In the meantime:

Jeff--KV-2 is fine. T-34 would have to be 1940 or 1941 version of which no plastic kits exist. You would have to use the Armo conversion stuff. The 1942 version is named 1942 because that is when it entered into production. That is true of all Soviet stuff so the model year is the year they began producing it.