ISU-152V
The Intro.
I’ve always loved the Finn’s in WWII ever since i first got a look at the Panssari Komppania from the Flames of war game and then when i discovered they got my favourite piece of armour the Stug I vowed i would build a Sturmi Komppania. But there was one part of the list that always stuck out to me. The ISU-152 recover vehicle. Until recently i never was able to build the army as most of the non-Stug content was resin. But since getting a 3d printer I’ve been printing off T-26 and T-28 to finish things off and i came back to the ISU-152 Recovery Vehicle. I spent hours trying out my google-foo and found nothing. the Vehicle gets lots of mentions but they never go in to any detail. So i cheated and asked my Finnish friend who’s dad came through for me big time with all sorts of info. So in this project i Plan to try and build the ISU-152V (and some other fun Finnish conversions like the T-28V)
Very cool project! Cool to see something uniquely Finnish here ??.
I’ve seen this particular ISU-152 in the Finnish armour museum and there was some info about it being converted to recovery vehicle. As I’m sure your friends dad has told you, unfortunately for this sort of projects, it has been restored closer to being an original Soviet ISU-152, including mounting the original gun back.
Yeah this project is all about ISU-152 “1212” as there is very little info about it’s time as a recovery vehicle. But thanks to my friends dad i now have lots of info so i can try and build it, and the other recovery vehicles that i discovered from the info he sent me.