Official Heng Long 1/16 Scale Soviet Union KV-2 Heavy Tank Discussion Thread

[DavidN]

[JennyC6]

for anyone wanting ideas of how to fix the smoke plumbing in their KV-series from Heng Long, here's how I did it.

Step 1: Drill out the exhausts with a 3/16 bit. Gotta be careful not to through-hole them, you'll be trying to make one hole hit another at a roughly 90 degree angle. You can buy aftermarket exhaust tips but this is much easier and quicker to sort out.

Step 2: Get some tubing handy. I used some copper fuel tubing and medium fuel line from my nitro RC pit box.

Step 3: A Y-pipe is nice. I've tried running off both smoker ports but it was wonky as. Sometimes it'd only smoke out one side, sometimes it'd smoke unevenly. Capped one port off, made a Y-pipe out of hollow 3/16" OD styrene tubing instead.

Step 4: Arrange as seen in the photo!

[SoCalBobS]

Yup, the KV-85 was an IS turret armed with an 85mm gun from the SU-85 and T34 mounted on the KV-1S chassis. The KV-1S has the sloped rear deck. They also tried the IS 122mm gunned turret, but only made like one of those.

tank-me, I bumped this thread because of your post regarding the KV-85. Somewhere back then (2022) there was a conversion KV-85 turret to put on a Heng Long KV-1. I'm making a poor man's version with a KV body and a t-34/85 turret I have lying around. I can't find a file for the real turret. Any tips? This was in my picture folder. Ring any bells?

[tank_me]

tank-me, I bumped this thread because of your post regarding the KV-85. Somewhere back then (2022) there was a conversion KV-85 turret to put on a Heng Long KV-1. I'm making a poor man's version with a KV body and a t-34/85 turret I have lying around. I can't find a file for the real turret. Any tips? This was in my picture folder. Ring any bells?

Yup, that's the Jukenburg kit. It's still available https://mk-modellbau.de/main_bigware...9&items_id=635. As far as an IS turret...hmmmm...I know of a 3D printed one at Thingiverse, but it's for an IS-2 and it's not very detailed (IE: bad). I'm not sure if the other files I have for the IS-2 early and late has the early turret or not. I can check after work.

[tank_me]

The files that Inkor produces does include the early turret. The only real difference between the early turret and the 85mm version is the mantlet from what I can see.