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This is the Eastern Express KV-9, a prototype that as far as I know never saw actual production. This was another of my many shelf queens. It sat pretty much done for several years, but Roy’s contest has put some fire in my belly to move these out. Thanks again Roy!
I used a spare set of the link and length tracks from one of my Trumpeter KV kits. The EE kit rubber length tracks are not very good. I also used the intake screens leftover form one of my Trumpeter KV builds. Some bits from the Eduard set #35314 (for the Eastern Express KV-1s) were used. I got that set just for the intake screens, which were used on the Trumpeter kit. Tow cables are the kit supplied ends with picture hanging wire dipped in Blacken-it. The lifting hoops on the back were made from copper wire, The kit actually comes with these as separate plastic parts, but I thought the wire ones looked better.
The Turret had some cast texture on it, but it was very subdued, so I enhanced it with Mr. Surfacer 500 which I stippled to raise the texture a bit. I also used the same stuff on the plate portions on the main hull to add a little rolled plate texture. I enhanced some of the weld beads by softening with Model Master Cement (the type with the needle applicator) then “working” it with a tool I made from a bit of coat hanger. This was especially necessary where some of the kit parts went together as there were no welds there to begin with.
Painted with Model Master Dunkelgrun (#2081). I used this because I thought it better replicated faded Russian green. I had Model Master Russian Topside Green, but it looked too “fresh” for my taste. I sprayed the underside, tracks and running gear with Badger 16-94 Field Drab (brown). This is an acrylic paint I picked up at a train hobby store. I sealed all this up with a coat of Model Master Flat Lacquer. I then washed with a white oil wash (thinking back, I should have done this before the Field Drab coat). Then slathered on a good coat of Yellow Ocher and Raw Sienna oils, working them with a brush dipped in turpenoid to get the muddy effects I wanted. Then I followed that with another light Yellow Ocher wash. Then I applied MMP Medium Earth powder to the fresh wash. I find the only way to get that stuff to stay on is to apply it on something fresh that will hold it. Then finished up with a pencil for the often used bare steel, then used the wooden end of the pencil to add scuff marks in various places.
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