Fujimi 1/76 KV-2

[huib]

Thank you very much, guys!

Wheels and tracks


A sprue full of wheels.


Cut loose, cleaned up, assembled, ready for paint.


After paint and weathering.


Wheels glued in position.


Standing upright.


Tracks painted and weathered.


The ends of the left track melted together, and the connection strengthened with sewing thread.


The left track is on. Now for some lengths of iron wire to stick through the hull to force some gravity on the tracks.


Like this. Now to cut on the right length, and camouflage with paint.


Tracksag on the left track.


And a broken track on the right side. A combination of iron wire and sewing thread is used to fix the track in this position.


Upright.


Turret added.


Almost ready. On to the last steps.

[Peter]

Really like it how you handle those tracks! Wonderfull work!

PS: do you do buttons to?

[huib]

Thanks. Peter! Yes you can send me your shirts.

[huib]

The last additions
Only a few things left to do.


Red taillight


Towing cables added, adjusted the broken track so it will fit the base, and glassed the headlight using clearfix.


Soot behind the exhausts.


The iron wires on the tracks were camouflaged using the same paint colors as on the tracks. As the finishing touch a lot of edges were scored with a soft graphite pencil to create a metallic look.

Now for a small base and then it's finished.

[steve_pickstock]

Chapeau! sir! Excellent work.

You really do weathered metal very well, and you definitely have a knack of making those tracks do what you want them to. Really, really well done!

[C M Dodson]

Very nice indeed.

A super realisation of this monster.

Best wishes,

Chris

[Peter]

Excellent work Huib!

PS: I bring the shirts and the buttons with me at FIGZ!

[JueHue]

Hi ,huib
I must say, you have made a very god Job. All is good, paintjob, wethering and realty destruction. Top work.

[huib]

Thank you, guys!

Building a base
For making a small vignet I was inspired by a lot of German photographs of destroyed, broken down and deserted KV-2's found on the web. Apparently, because of it's huge size, the KV-2 could count on a lot of attention by German soldiers and photographers. Some examples:







This kind of pictures inspired me for the vignet.


As usual I start with the rim of a yoghurt container and a piece of plywood.


This time the plywood is not a perfect circle, but a bit elyptical so it fits oblique in the ring.


A landscape with a ditch. Made with clay.


Some basic colours to start with.


Lots of colour nuances.


Too late I rembered that I wanted to add some chunks of dirt and mud. So I had to glue them on top of the paint. Wrong order of procedure!


Coloured again.


Fake wood for the rim.


Grass and some dead shrubbery.


A few figures selected. Left two Airfix Germans. On the right a Matchbox officer. The paintwork is mine but vintage from the 1970's!


Repainted.


Shadows and highlights.


Tank on the base, figure added (only used one of them in the end) and ready!

Final pictures soon!

[Peter]

Nice final result Huib!

[huib]

Thanks, Peter!

Final pictures



More pics in the Gallery.

[JueHue]

Hello Huib
You have the KV-2 Projekt very good finisht.I l ike it very well.
Jürgen