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This is of one of my older models that I have been submitting to Track-Link. Hopefully viewers will see improvement of my models from these older ones compared to the newer models that I have been able to show. It may be interesting to see how a person’s skills change over time.
This model was part of a 2-part article that appeared in 1990 March and April issue of the now defunct Military Modeler magazine. I built a slew of Soviet armor because at the time in the mid 1980s Tamiya quit shipping Soviet armor to the U.S. I was able to pick up in Japan at a very inexpensive price all the Tamiya kits, which in turn led to building the models and writing the article.
This is the old Tamiya KV-II. I put a little extra into this kit when I built it back in the late 1980s. An On-The-Mark photo-etch set was added and some missing weld beads added using styrene sprue melted in Testor’s liquid cement to create ‘liquid sprue’. I later rebuilt the kit in 1995 to its current configuration by adding Modelkasten tracks and repainting the model. I weathered it in the late 1990s.
A friend of mine, Don Burgyone, just recently showed me a KV-1 from Trumpeter that he finished. These newer kits are a lot nicer than the old Tamiya KV series.
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