I finally got round to tidying my hobby room, so the time was right for building the IS-2.


Only modifications so far have been to add bearings to the road wheels. All gone together very well, makes a change from my usual projects!


Assembling the tub:











Close up of the cast texture:



Return rollers:



Lower hull finished:






Upper hull:



Lovely cast texture on the hull



Weld lines:

Looking good!

Dang Tom... now I know where all your tank money went! (lol)

Looking good!




Jeff

The casting detail on this kit is just crazy cool. Nasty looking grinding marks rough texture. Ugly weld beads. It's Russian and Tamiya sold the look!!! You may not have to spend to much time on this kit like you have in the past Tom???

I have a ve a feeling the build phase will be pretty quick, hard works done for me (and imo done really well!).

Don't forget to counterweigh that monster canon in the rear of the turret. And it's not a bad idea to drill out an access hole underneath the overhang for the rear TBU base screw in case you need to get at it after assembly.


Love the JS-2 and yes Tamiya did a great job on cast texture, but c'mon Tom, you know you'll need to ugly it up further with some casting marks, tie down clips and the hideous cut offs on the cupola...

Ausf, loving the detail on yours, have you a build I can shamelessly get steal ideas from?!

A wee bit more progress, have done the turret basics. Fitting a tbu so have hidden the emitter in the HUGE muzzle break. Hulls had all the detail I don't need to pre paint added. Next week the lower hull goes off to guido Henn for an improved idler system that should help the front end rigidity











Some more progress, trying to smooth the turret seams, about 5 layers of Mr surfacer so far, to ably a couple more required. Also added magnetic hub caps for the sprockets

I don't know why the thread ended, but this is what I have in terms of a build:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-t...under-way.html

Edit, found more:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-t...king-ugly.html

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-t...technique.html

And here's the figure you locked down on (although yours is different colors of resin):

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-t...ct-teaser.html

Tom, Have to watch out the hinge of the commander cupola is too weak, mine one already broken..
considering to make a metal one for it. but struggling in the working travel lock at the moment. LOL

Carson L

Carson has a point there. My commanders hatch as already broken. The hinge points are very weak.

Been a long time since I made progress on this but got my ammo modulation set through so time to get cracking.


First was a coat of Tamiya fine surface primer to all the photo etch and metal parts. Then a base coat of gunship grey to serve as the metal coat.








Next after it had cured a coat of hairspray ready for the 4bo base.


The mig set has four colours, dark base, base, light base and highlights.


Dark base:





Base:





Light base and highlights





After this I added some of the dark base as streaks and post shading.


Final result with chipping

















That's all for now

What's for dinner?
rex