JS-2

Nigel One of the things I love love love about Soviet armour is those crazy slogans they adorned their tanks with.

Peter Hardy You are serious about the 152 then?

Martin Oostrom Gonna buy it sometime later. First dent the stash more.
But I WILL build this beast.

Peter Hardy I have the Tamiya kit, the metal barrel and a set of Fruil tracks for it. No pe yet.

scalemates top! works like a charm ... ps: feel free to remove the "logo discussion" from your thread.

Peter Peter Uploaded one, but not sure if the logo will auto-replace the image above.

scalemates Please hit refresh in your browser, should show the latest one (automatically on ALL your reviews)

Peter Peter Doesn't work for me but anyway

scalemates Please send it via email and I'll check...tim@scalemates.com

Peter Peter Sent.

scalemates Thx, new logo uploaded

Peter Peter Ah, but you see there are 2 records of the site now... https://scalemates.com/searc..l&q=Sites+modelcrafters*
One has the logo and the other doesn't

C Marques de Sá worth buying just for the box art...

H K Speaking of box arts, I blame Ron Volstad for buying too much Dragon kits

James C Nice job Paul. The fading of the paint looks excellent. What Tamiya green did you use?

Paul Tomczak Thanks - I pre-shaded with Tamiya Dark Green. Then used Tamiya NATO green as the base coat. I then mixed some JA Green with the base coat for a lighter color for the middle of panels and upper color of the hatches, fuel tanks and boxes.

Christian Bruer Hey Sven, seems to me you went over to the dark side
Nice work, just one comment some photos are a bit to dark to see all details.
Cheers, Christian

Sven Schönyan Hi Christian, thanks for the comment. Yes the pictures became too dark. Just some snapshots from last week.
I went over to the dark side - not really. But sometimes you need to do something else. These tiny tanks are ideal for a quick build which will be actually completely finished and don´t share the fate of many other models which still wait for their completion (for several years in some cases...)
But don´t worry: next maritime project - HMS Illustrious Task Force in 1/350 - is already on the bench.

Efthymios Chatzopoulos Very good job!

Sven Schönyan Very interesting!

Choppa Nutta cool

Ruslan Sudakov Nice build!

James C Very nice!

Dieter Bihlmaier Your IS looks great.

Marcin J Thank you

Gábor Bélik Great work!

Luc B

Murad ÖZER Gabor et Luc, thanks folks

Kim Branders Nice.

Ulf Petersen

Choppa Nutta

Anthony Flanagan

Rui S Scott, I've been trying to find the words to comment on your soviet/Russian big collection and I just can say, really Amazing work. (not always one have to say "quantity doesn't mean quality" .
How long did you take to make this collection?
Really like your finishing skills mate. Very well done Congratulations

Scott Dutton Ive been modelling since the late 80,s seriously having stopped for uni etc. So some old ones there and think I may have peaked skill wise, as the eyesight is making it harder. Have just picked up the photography element to compensate and record my collection. Thanks for kind words

Christian Lehmann

Stefan Suessemilch Good job Florian

Florian A Danke, Stefan!

Augie Very Nice Florian, weathering is really well done.

Michel Huijghe Yes I like it a lot.

Florian A Thank you guys

Dieter Bihlmaier Hi Jan. Had the same problems with the tracks, so I changed mine with Trumpeter TK 12. Otherwise the Zvezda kit is not bad for the price. So let your skilz coming!

Jan Hazes What do you think. Should I spray a coat of dust over the model?

Jan Hazes Oh btw I made the tracks sag by using sewing pins. A method I found in some forum. Cut the head off, heat till it glows and press through the hull. With small pliers of course

Gábor Bélik Very nice job!

Dieter Bihlmaier A layer of dust (pigments) on top of the fenders will look fine. Your white identification band looks very cool!
Without the risk of burning your fingers, you can drill the holes in the hull and then secure the sewing pin with superglue.

Jan Hazes Tnx for the tip Dieter! Now why didn't I think of that? The band was done with hairspray technique. I also like how that turned out

Darren Hazes Good luck with your vk

james johnson Might be my last piece of armor for a while.......low on funds........The odd thing is.....is that I was thinking I was going to weather the bejesus out of this thing....then I get an email saying I've won a year's subscription to weathering magazine........okay, weathering, here I come........

Hunter Cummins The interesting
Im in as I want to learn some more things about weathering

Gary Wintin More photos and full info on my blog - modeller-innovation.blogspot..bby-135-js-2-heavy-tank.html

Gary Nice work!! The weathering looks great. Gary

Gary Wintin Thank you Gary.. from Gary... hahaa

Choppa Nutta

Gábor Bélik Be careful with this kit. I built it. Everything is ok but The upper hull is a JS-1 one. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Gary Wintin The upper hull is a very old early type for the JS-2 .... later, they switched it to the sloped, non-step nose hull

james johnson I'm looking at this jig thing that's included in the kit for forming the individual track links and am thinking that I should be able to use it for other Soviet armor with the same chassis, in the same scale of course?

Erhan Atalay From Kerem Ozkir, he is a miniafv crew ..

Mike Kryza Hope so -

Kevin van der Sande nice one, got this one waiting to be done also hope it's gonna look a bit like this one then

George Bacon Beautiful build. Makes me want to get the model!

Kim Branders Thanks Kevin and George. This was fun building. Grtz Kim

uncle chop chop yea very very good work kim look grate

uncle chop chop the traks look awsome ay

Christian Lehmann Looks nice so far

stefan natus well done kim!

Kim Branders I am happy, this one is done.

scalemates nice work Kim!

Philip De Keyser Looks great Kim, how is it with the Sherman? any progress?
Greetz Phil

Holger Kranich Wow Kim! Thats an extraordinary work! Well done!

stefan natus Nice one kim.

Kim Branders Thanks everybody for the comments
@Phil : just painted the details, thats all. Next is the varnish and the decals.
Haven't got any time because of my 2 yeah old son

Steve Wilson Excellent!!!

Kim Branders Thanks Steve.

Acki Hi Kim, nice piece of russian steel! Thanks for showing.

Kim Branders @ Acki: it is my pleasure, thanks.Grtz

Kim Branders Pics after the base color, dark wash and drybrushing

Markus Kutsch Hi ,Kim
Looks great.This will be my next tank ( in 10 years or so

Kim Branders Thanks Marcus.

Markus Kutsch Perhaps my next Project .Or again a Sherman?Or a S.A.S dio,or ,or .....or. ...
So many things to build.

Alexander Schreiber Vote for IS2!

Patrick Duve Nice to see a completion. Welcome back to modeling.

Anthony Flanagan Good to be back. Thanks and Happy New Year!

mahyar bahrampoor hi your old working is good iam so happy see my models thanks

Anthony Flanagan Thank you. I just checked your wall. Impressive work.

bob the builder Hi Anthony, nice comeback in modeling

Philip De Keyser Welcom back Anthony and a happy modelling Year