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Got the KV1 "Big Turret" / KV2 Pre-Production mostly assembled last night. Tracks were an absolute shitshow but managed to get them all in place, no thanks to the instructions giving the wrong number of individual track links necessary for going over the return wheels. All that's really left is to get the headlight assembly put together and installed, paint up the short tow cables to attach them, and then give the thing some mud splatter and weathering befitting a Summer 1941 appearance. I'm likely not going to follow the boxart and put the big white Russian slogan since none of the Big Turret KVs had them.
However, because I now have ten spare track links, I might attach them to the front or track fender 'shelves' as spare parts as two five-piece chunks. I can't find any historical evidence this was ever done with a KV2, though, which makes trying to do prototypical placement kinda tough.