Russian KV-9 Heavy Tank

Plastic Model Kit to build a Soviet Heavy Tank KV-9

• 1:35 scale
• Dimensions LxW (built): 197.6 x 94.8 mm
• 320+ parts
• Photo etched, clear parts and copper wire included
• Lower hull and turret manufactured using the Slide Mold process
• segment tracks
• not built/not painted
• Paint and glue not included

In the fall of 1941, the Russian high command request an mobile artillery vehicle. Under the guidance of engineers V. Sidorenko and N. Usenko, they designed in December 1941 the Object 229 and was the KV-1 Model 1942 armed with an 122 mm U-11 Tank Howitzer. The built of this vehicle took place until April 1942. After succesfull test, it was accepted as the KV-9. The weight of the tank was 47 tons and it had a crew of four men: two in the turret and two in the hull. The tank had the easily replaced cast turret from the KV-1. For protection of the tank against antitank guns, its frontal armor had an enormous for the time thickness of 135 mm. The armor thickness on the turret roof was 40 mm. The tank was equipped with a TMFD telescopic sight. The U-11 cannon had semi-fixed ammunition from the M-30 Howitzer, its vertical elevation angle was -4° +19,5°. The tank's basic load consisted of 48 rounds for the main gun and 2,646 cartridges for the three 7.62mm DT machine-guns.
 

Trumpeter covers a large part of the KV-1/-2 variants with its 25 models in its range. You can compile the series here (if available):
KV-1 Series	Intermediate solutions / prototypes / experimental tanks	KV-2 Series
TRU00356 KV-1 Model 1941 TRU00357 KV-1 Ehkranami TRU00358 KV-1 Model 1942 simplified turret TRU00359 KV-1 Model 1942 heavy cast turret TRU00360 KV-1 Model 1942 lightweight cast turret TRU00366 Pz.Kpfm KV-1 756 (r) TRU01561 KV-1 Model 1939 TRU01565 KV-8 TRU01566 KV-1S TRU01568 KV-8S welded turret TRU01572 KV-8S cast turret TRU09597 KV-1 1942 simplified turret w/Crew	TRU01567 KV-1S/85 TRU01569 KV-85 TRU01570 KV-122 TRU05552 KV-5 Super Heavy Tank TRU05553 KV-220 Russian Tiger TRU05583 S-51 Self-Propelled Gun TRU09503 KV-7 Model 1941 TRU09504 KV-7 (Object 227) TRU09544 KV-3 TRU09563 KV-9	TRU00311 KV Big Turret TRU00312 KV-2 TRU00367 Pz.Kpfw. KV-2 754(r)