A Weighty Adversary
The Soviet KV-1 finished up being formally found in 1939 and had many variants. Model 1941 KV-1s employed the 76.2mm ZIS-5 gun, that could tear through armor on modern German tanks; its early production variants had a welded turret with armor up to 75mm dense, and hung tough in tough combat with German armor following Nazi German invasion of Soviet Union in June 1941, increasing the Soviet opposition that would eventually turn the tables and break the rules the German advance. Soldiers was modelers, too? It is understood that German front line troops have been provided with wooden and paper types of the KV-1 in a scale of around 1/20, to simply help identify the tanks and formulate counter-strategies. This kit includes a version in miniature 1/35 scale about the artwork guide to cut right out and make use of in dioramas of tactical conferences etc.
