Hello everyone,
thanks to Stephane B. for catching this – so, one fine day, he went to buy some plastic model kits and noticed this one particular one. Check this out, this is the KV-5 kit by a company called Takom. It’s a company based in Hong Kong, so I think we can all see where this is going – stronk historicity :)
Did you know that KV-5 fought at Kursk and in Finland? Well, now you know…
I live in Hong Kong. Where the hell do I find this?
Perhaps try this:
http://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=TAK-35006
Address: Room 11, 3/F, Mansfield Industrial Center, 19 Hong Yip Street, Yuen Long, N.T. Hong Kong
Tel:852-2304-7201 Fax:852-2865-7076 email:info@luckymodel.com
This address should be the wholesaler. There is hardly any model shops in Hong Kong placing at such location.
Writing him an email would worth a try. Or simply ordering it from the given webshop.
Stronk historical accuracy
You’re quite retarded, aren’t you?
They know it was a never built tank, and the markings are fictional and “what if”.
Like, what if the KV-5 was developed by Nazis?
Kv 5 captured by finnish forces, now that would be an acomplishment
If there was a Russian tank we surely captured one…
Had to actually Google “Enso” to make sure it was an actual place. :P
Enso is the finnish name for Svetogorsk, an industrial town in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus, on the Vuoksa River.
That companies kits seem to be decent quality.
Same company makes a kit of the Object 279.
Well it wouldn’t be completely fake if the Soviet 2nd Tank Army (2nd Guard Tank Army) was at Kursk which it wasn’t….
After the radioman gets the 6th sense, maybe WG will be generous and decrease the r2d2. Suddenly the model will be outdated :P
Feew days ago i was with arl44 and i got on ruinberg a kv5 eas holding the city with his back and stood there until m44 killed it it was like a ****** stone no one could pen him
KV-5 also fought in Pacific warfare.
In battle of Atlantic too.
yea… it took down some U boats from what i remember
… by ramming them.
Reports confirm KV-5 fighting tripods in War of the Worlds.
In the original Star Wars Luke Skywalker attacked the Death Star with KV-5.
In battle of Hoth, there was only one KV-5 – AT-ATs were holographic.
You got history wrong! The defending Turrets on the Death Star where KV-5 turrets.
KV-5 confirmed for Space Marine Emperor Class battleship
The cake was inside a kv-5 all this time
When will WTF E-100 plastic kit come out? ;)
when wg / serb gets the patent for it
We don’t need that cancer spread into the modelling world, thank you. On the other hand it could be a fun model to have, just for the giggles. :)
From what I had heard, Trumpeter were also making a KV-5 model kit and their offerings are usually of a reasonably good quality. I bought their Leopold railway gun a few years ago and enjoyed building it very much.
From what I know there are now such plans from trumpeter to have a kv-5 kit, theyve recently released the is-7 and a bit earlier the is4 kit tho
And earlier from that, an S-51 as well as an Obj. 704
Yep beautiful models, still need to get a hold of them tho lol
well trumpeter actually made IS-7 in 1/35 scale… im looking for it for now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOUlRmswcQ
about TAKOM KV-5 – it is also on polish auction website “allegro” – maybe will get it
and object 279 – im already build it – its nightmare (linked tracks..)
ROTFL, WoT kv-5 isn’t even historical model…
ayyy lmao
Hong Kong =/= China. I live in Hong Kong, and not much is fake here.
Just because something is made in Hong Kong does not mean that it’s quality is bad OR that it’s fake.
‘It’s a company based in Hong Kong, so I think we can all see where this is going’ – This is really quite offensive, and factually incorrect, too.
I often visit this site and I can say the quality of the posts are great. However, this one seems to be an exception, and I hope you will understand that it is quite rude to assume that Hong Kong equates to fake or bad.
i have somthing for you…: http://imgur.com/mXOee2p
hm
I’m on a modelling group on Facebook, and someone’s been building this kit. I guess its pretty damn good, and decently detailed.
Extremely expensive for such a simple build
Never mind the KV-5 clock this Object 279:
http://www.insidethearmour.com/takom.html
Just beamed down from the planet WTF
Real tank, designed to survive necular warfare. If I remember rightly only one tank in the world and resides in kubinka (I think that’s how its spelt)
Necular or Nuclear?
Yeah, I saw it there even have a blurry picture but cannot upload it here it seems.
Edit: Reply functions seems to have messed up too
Booooh and when I offered to make this a thing on FTR you turned me down SS :(((
Shows that ppl are very well interested in knowing more about rare models!
Oh man I laught to hard when I found it!
The finnish and soviet markings are fictional, as in “what if” the KV-5 got tested in the Continuation War and captured by the Finnish Army, like the T-50
Hey SS, I am a scale model builder and I just recently saw these stronk historical accuracy kits by another Chinese Model Company:
http://www.dragon-models.com/d-m-item.asp?pid=DRA6683
Stock config, lol!
Even better, this one:
http://www.dragonmodelsusa.com/dmlusa/prodd.asp?pid=DRA6799
Hmm, where do I know that long barrel from?
Same Company now also did an ISU-152 with a BL-10 and a M103 with the turret from WoT.
Funny stuff!
Well that tiger 1 with 7.5cm did exist, experimental, isu-152 with bl10 was also an historical attempt and the m103 again has the real turret modelled, now we all know the 7.5cm l100 is fantasy
Sure they existed, but only in some prototype stages. Very interesting that a popular model company suddenly releases all kinds of tanks that look exactly the same in World of Tanks.
I order from Luckymodel often. They have good deals.
KV5 and many more “Mid-War Monsters” (their marketing) are available in 15mm from
http://www.battlefront.com
Appy
As for me, seeings those camos are more like “what if”, and not related to “historical accuracy”.
It refers more the “if the tank had been fighting here, here is what the camo would have been on it most likely”.
Not historically accurate, but not claiming to be.