Thanks for looking in yohanna , I think . Hmm , todays kit I’m going talk about is the 2016 Warlord JS II . Love those big guns . As most of Warlord’s kits it’s got a few compromises , a big one being they molded the lower hull/suspension identical . They are not , the right side road wheels are set ahead of the left side wheels due to the torsion bars running across hull floor . The KV kit also has this problem .  Also , they missed the ammo loading port on the lower left side , this makes it much easier to load those 25 kilo projectiles

The tricky part of the build is the turret which  made up of 5 pieces , I always seemed to need a third hand holding that thing together while the glue dried . The hull and turret are devoid of any casting detail so you can go to town with your favourite putty . The turret rear can have all sorts of raised cast ribbing as well as letters , numbers and symbols , I’ve got 30 odd pictures of turrets in my JSII file and they all  have different  markings . Might be time to dig out some of those model RR cast letter sheets and get to work .

A few of the thing I found lacking on the kit are , no wire detail on the tow cables , I’m going to fix this by either cutting off plastic and adding picture hanger wire or use shortened  Eureka 1/48 scale tow cables with cast resin ends . I’m also using Eureka’s 1/48 T-34 cables to detail up some of my Rubicon tanks . The cupola mounted machine gun is a total waste , its basically flat , the real DSHK gun has lots of tubing and counter balance springs , ammo boxes and stuff . I managed to fake up 1 from bits in the parts bin but decided my other JSII s could roll along MG less . Actually crews removed them in Berlin because they kept getting snagged on downed wires as they rumbled through the streets

The kit commander’s cupola is static , in real life the hatch ring could rotate with the MG ,  like the  early  Sherman’s hatch . Too much work IMO to ty and fix .   Gamer wise, the negatives on this kit probably won’t matter , plus you get a sprue of Russians (8 figures ) and their weapons for the price of the tank ( KV has same deal )  I wish some of the Panzers had sprues of troops with them   ,always can use more kit bashed tank riders.