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Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Land => Topic started by: ysi_maniac on July 15, 2021, 04:57:22 AM

Title: KV (Kliment Voroshilov) and IS (Iosif Stalin) series of heavy soviet tanks
Post by: ysi_maniac on July 15, 2021, 04:57:22 AM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS_tank_family (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS_tank_family)

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/is.htm (https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/is.htm)
Title: Re: KV (Kliment Voroshilov) and IS (Iosif Stalin) series of heavy soviet tanks
Post by: ysi_maniac on July 15, 2021, 04:58:08 AM: I love heavies like this Super T-10M. Equipped with 20mm cuppola turret and a pair of heavy machine guns to deal with prowling enemy infantry.

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/SuperT-10M.jpeg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/e58f1c54-aee2-42c9-bc15-f72ec22af374/p/01350f93-0c15-4402-8f87-a2edbd28f66a)
Title: Re: KV (Kliment Voroshilov) and IS (Iosif Stalin) series of heavy soviet tanks
Post by: GTX_Admin on July 16, 2021, 02:01:24 AM: What about a T-10M still in service but fitted with ERA?
Title: Re: KV (Kliment Voroshilov) and IS (Iosif Stalin) series of heavy soviet tanks
Post by: ysi_maniac on July 17, 2021, 01:35:53 PM: Soon after WWII german night vision equipment is used ...

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/EarlyPostWWII-Nacht.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/e58f1c54-aee2-42c9-bc15-f72ec22af374/p/1d70a58b-f4cc-48ee-a260-25f8d24be078)
Title: Re: KV (Kliment Voroshilov) and IS (Iosif Stalin) series of heavy soviet tanks
Post by: ChernayaAkula on July 17, 2021, 11:36:55 PM: Have thought about a (license-built?) KV-1used by the Western Allies. Idea stems from a model of a T-34 in British service as a "Cruiser tank Mk.XYZ" (can't remember the exact designation used) in North Africa that looked very good.
Title: Re: KV (Kliment Voroshilov) and IS (Iosif Stalin) series of heavy soviet tanks
Post by: ysi_maniac on July 18, 2021, 08:35:07 AM: Real world
Constant scale: 1 pix ----> 1 cm

IS-1
IS-2
IS-3
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/IS_series_1_CS.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/e58f1c54-aee2-42c9-bc15-f72ec22af374/p/01271f80-f720-48d3-b39b-0a3268883ee3)

IS-4
IS-7
2 T-10M
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/IS_series_2_CS.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/e58f1c54-aee2-42c9-bc15-f72ec22af374/p/22acdceb-9c07-4cbd-abfa-0c76c70324e6)

I have not found good sources for IS-5 and IS-6
Title: Re: KV (Kliment Voroshilov) and IS (Iosif Stalin) series of heavy soviet tanks
Post by: apophenia on July 18, 2021, 10:40:30 AM: Nice :smiley:
Title: Re: KV (Kliment Voroshilov) and IS (Iosif Stalin) series of heavy soviet tanks
Post by: ysi_maniac on July 20, 2021, 11:57:51 AM: What if the saga of soviet heavy tanks continued during '60s and '70s?

Here you can see first two members of LB(1) series along with T-10M (RW).

LB-1 armed with a 125mm gun, is here parading in Red Square, Moscow.
LB-2 is armed with a 130mm gun.

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/LB-1-2(1).jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (https://app.photobucket.com/u/ysi_maniac/a/e58f1c54-aee2-42c9-bc15-f72ec22af374/p/ecc05358-66da-4a85-93dd-7047e8f5fce2)

(1) LB: Leonid Brezhnev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev
Title: Re: KV (Kliment Voroshilov) and IS (Iosif Stalin) series of heavy soviet tanks
Post by: Story on December 20, 2021, 11:45:51 PM: Italeri IS-2 hull and a resin (early) T62 turret.

(https://i.imgur.com/ezSPa3g.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/d868Nds.jpg)

Needs some sort of mating-spacer between the lower and upper turret races. The turret overhang would block access to the engine grills, no matter which way the gun tube was oriented.

Italeri IS-2 hull and an ESCI (I think) T55 turret.

(https://i.imgur.com/sdTu6yM.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/UePQ2dk.jpg)

If I had to put antiques back onto a 21st century 4G battlefield, the 55 option makes more sense to me from many angles; engine access is doable, T55 turret race is close-enough to a JSII's, 100mm ammo seems more available than 115mm, T55 is AK47 stupid-simple.