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Old 05-23-2015, 06:49 AM
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Greetings guys!

My friend Michael built this cool Taigen lower and HL KV-1 upper and turret and a Jukenburg 122 kit. The idea being he can switch turrets pretty quick! anyway He handed it over to the paint shop for some paint and basic detail. Just for fun when I was finished I counted the number of bolts, just bolts on this thing that I first, black pin washed and then highlighted. Basically I touched over 5550 bolts twice! LOL! No wonder it took me a month to do!
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Old 05-23-2015, 07:23 PM
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I did not know that Jukenburg was doing a KV-122 kit I took there KV-85 kit and did the 122mm JS-2 barrel in it in 2013 here is the link .
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-t...-2-barrel.html

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Old 05-24-2015, 04:05 AM
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Sorry, my mistake. Yes, it is an 85 turret kit, Michael did replace the barrel. Me bad. I generalized...
Old 05-24-2015, 04:35 AM
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Looks awesome! Wonder if an HL airsoft gun could be put into that turret...
Old 05-24-2015, 07:43 PM
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Its very tight the turret it mite work tho .

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Old 05-25-2015, 02:50 PM
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I am hellbent on getting the Tamiya JS-2 turret or getting someone to make me one so I can make a KV-1S. Almost a straight swap except for the additional armour that would need to be removed.

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