Lead From The Front With Warlord’s New Plastic IS-2 Soviet Tank
February 11, 2017 by brennon
The Soviets of Bolt Action get some heavy duty support this weekend with the release of a new plastic kit from Warlord Games for the IS-2 Heavy Tank.
So what's inside this set?
- Enough plastic components to make the IS-2 heavy tank!
- Full-colour detailed construction booklet.
- Full-colour waterslide decals.
- A 8-man squad of infantry that can used as tank riders or normal infantry!
- A stat card which holds all the essential info you need to use your tank!
- A set of damage markers for that real psychological (& cinematic) effect!
Not bad! It's neat that you get some extras to make this more than just a simple tank kit. The damage markers and extra soldiers are welcome additions to give something else to work on as your tank is coming together.
This tank was an utter beast. It was heavily armoured and armed and could roll right through a German line and keep on going.
By its very nature, it was a breakthrough tank that would try and pound a hole in the enemy lines so that the rest of your force could pour through and surge at the enemy. When you combine a tank like this with hordes of infantry you have a frightening prospect as getting close enough to take one out would be tough!
What do you think?
"The damage markers and extra soldiers are welcome additions to give something else to work on as your tank is coming together..."
Very nice, The tip of the spear to any Soviet Force, WANT
I’m gonna need a couple for my Berlin ’45 project that’s for sure!
And with the extra tankodesantniki, stat cards and cotton wool for smoke and fire effects the new Warlord plastic tanks are excellent value for money. Love it!
Now I’m going back to my KV-2..
One of my favorite tanks of WW2. At this scale I’m sure it will be a freakin’ BEAST. Based on the old “Klimenti Voroshilov” KV-1 and KV-2 tanks of the Barbarossa era. Weren’t really that great since they were heavier and slower but still carried the same 76.2mm gun as the T-34s. So they started trying to upgrade. Experimenting with the KV-85 (85mm) and the JS / IS 1 (85mm and 100mm). Still not big enough! Let’s go all the way up to a 122mm with ammo so big you have to load it in two sections – the projectile… Read more »
@oriskany I knew you’d show up here 😉 Was there much difference between a T-10 and an IS-2 functionally? Looks like the turret on the T-10 has a better ballistic slope. Fire control? It was before my time in the spook world, so don’t know much about it, and at the time the Middle East wasn’t really on our intelligence radar.
I know the T-10 has a more modern bore-evacuator like other modern tanks, as well as the traditional WW2-style muzzle brake. But I’ve only “used” them heavily in Arab-Israeli Wars, where they have the same movement as IS2s and 3s. Much better gunnery, though, but still a pretty poor range (well, compared to Israelis with British L7 105mm rifles, anyway). 😀
and then you fire your APCBC ammunition on your IS2 mod 1944 and the grey team cry. one of my favs as well. apparently a fast turner on the move with good turret speed and a good reverse which i never knew. Remembered Optics and turret turn speed were good on the later soviet tanks but that was about it.
That is one really nice take on IS-2.
Great kit, be a nice add to convert my k47 soviets to bolt action.
I am actually a little surprised that Warlord Games is putting out a plastic kit for the IS-2 so soon. I am not complaining, well maybe a little bit as I already have a resin/metal hybrid, I just wouldn’t have expected it so soon after their KV-1 plastic kit was released and before a possible KV-2 kit.
a brilliant model.
that is what most people would think of if they described a tank, plus the IS3 with the rounded turret would make a great substitute alien tank I think anyway.
@clash957
The Warlord KV-1 plastic kit also builds the KV-2.
Thanks, I didn’t know that and given how much bigger the turret was on the KV-2, I would have thought there might not be room for it on the sprue.
Nice looking kit . Will know more when a What’s In The Box in depth review is done by some one . I wonder if the sprue layout will make it easy for Warlord to release a ISU 122/152 kit as well ? Nice touch getting a sprue of Russian troops in this and the KV kit .
Definitely putting this on my get list