Artem RedArmy

Greetings to all. I received an order to build a fully finished model on the Taigen chassis. I will try to display the whole process in this topic

MAUS45

Thanks for sharing Artem!

Artem RedArmy

The first point will be the installation and configuration of the gearbox. Now the chassis is completely disassembled, so I installed a gearbox in the chassis from the SU-152.

TheBennyB

Have a Juckenberg resin upper and turret if it would help your build? If so message me.

Artem RedArmy

Thank you for the offer. Please don't take offense at me, but I see the only use for this kit is a trash can. I make this tank for the customer only from RedArmy parts

Artem RedArmy

I started working on the chassis. The first item is a complete disassembly and defect. Immediately replace 2 balancers and 4 torsion holders. After that, I lubricate all the screws of the brackets with loctite

herrmill

Nice!

Pnzjgr

Very nice and moves/sounds great. Did you make the gearboxes? If you do are they for sale and for which tanks?

Artem RedArmy

Now I have made for the KV-1 taigen and for the IS-2 Tamiya. For which model are you interested?

Pnzjgr

Actually I'm interested in both! Lol. I plan (now that you offer for the Taigen KV-1) to do a Taigen KV- lower hull with your gearboxes and a upper SU-152 if possible and then later get your gearboxes for a Tamiya IS-2. I hope. 😁 At one point I had a El Mod SU-152 with Tamiya lower hull...

tankme

From what I've seen it's actually easier to build an SU-152 on a Taigen metal hull than a Tamiya lower. The rear of the SU is lower than that of a standard KV-1 so it can interfere with the way the Tamiya hull is built if you angle the engine deck like it should be.

Artem RedArmy

The details went to the painting. There will be number 33 on the turret

Artem RedArmy

Artem RedArmy

I got the chassis from painting. Started the assembly. Be sure to lubricate all elements of the chassis. I put my gearboxes, the supports of the output shaft. After that, I checked the driving characteristics

Artem RedArmy

Artem RedArmy

Before sending it to the customer, I conducted testing. The result in the photo((. Taigen forgot about the quality

Artem RedArmy

As a resume . The quality of Taigen has become even lower. Replaced three balancers, two sloth tensioners, three torsion bars. It took three months to make the model, I used early wheels, tracks from JS-2 taigen, driving wheels HengLong. The turret has a recoil and lifting on the servo, IR battle system. Rc module - DK TANK

Imex-Erik

We discontinued the KV series tanks here in the US due to that same issue. The factory was unable to provide a long term fix and as such I personally made the call to discontinue them here. This doesn't stop other vendors from ordering even if there is a known issue so unfortunately I can't help there I know I'm far away but if you need a few (or a bunch) let me know through the site and I'll do what I can about sending a few over. Luckily all the tanks that use torsion bars use the same ones: T1/ST/KV/Panther/KT and if you order some for any of those tanks it should fit the KV.

Artem RedArmy

Thanks. I still have a stock of parts for kv in the workshop

philipat

Looks great!