ISU-152 - the USSR/Polish self-propelled artillery gun (SPAG)

This heavy self-propelled gun, also called "Samochodka" or "Zveroboj" ("beast killer"), was built on the basis of the chassis of the KV heavy tank. It is equipped with a 152 mm cannon - mortar. The SPAG was constructed in the Chelyabinsk tractor factory constructors' bureau, headed by engineer Z. Kotin. The construction work was a record - it took only a little more, than 25 days, and already in February 1943 serial production of artillery equipment was started at the factory. Just from the rear, these SPAG's were sent to the front and first of all got to the units, that had to counter the enemy's expected attack in the Kursk arc. During the heavy defensive battles of July 1943, heavy SPAG's showed their combat value even in duels with German "Tiger" and "Panther" tanks, that had just entered the battle. In this battle the nickname "Zvieroboj" "stuck" to them. After the construction of the IS heavy tank, these SPAG's began to be installed on their chassis and exactly the appearance of such a machine and reproduces the model, made from the publication. The 13th Self-Propelled Armored Artillery Regiment of the 1st Wojsko Polskie Army had a dozen of this type of SPAG. These machines remained in his arsenal until the end of the war and were still used for a long time after the war. And only around the middle of the seventies, they began to be removed from the lists of armaments. One copy, which still participated in World War II, can be viewed in the Muzeum Wojska Polskiego, located in Warsaw.

A medium-complexity, well-detailed model for its time, without internal detalization, which, under the supervision of a more experienced colleague, will stick together perfectly even by an advanced beginner or a modeler with little experience. Only haste and carelessness will have no place here. Antiquarian publication.