Rivals of War. 4

KV - 1 - USSR WWII heavy tank. Constructed in 1939 at the Designers' Office of the Leningrad "Kirov" Factory. It is also produced at the Chelyabinsk tractor factory. The KV was the only tank of the USSR, which was ahead of the German machines in its characteristics from the beginning of the war. KV-1 passed combat tests during the Winter War with the Finns and, after this war ,it was directed to serial production. It is equipped with a 76 mm cannon, another version was equipped with a 152 mm howitzer, which changed the entire turret of the tank and it was called KV - 2 in the series. KV - 1 weighed 45 tons, its armor was impenetrable to all artillery, mounted on tanks at the time, and it itself had built-in powerful weapon. It had good speed and passing characteristics, but was difficult to control, the engine often stalled. On June 22, 1941, when Germany attacked the USSR, the latter had 639 KV - 1 tanks, but did not have time to deliver sufficient ammunition and fuel reserves to the front line areas. Therefore, in the first weeks of the war, many of these tanks were abandoned and taken over by the Germans, who used them for their own purposes, designating them as Pz. Kpfw. KV-1 756(r).

"Tiger" appeared for the first time in 1942, when two prototypes were brought to the competition. Two tanks were tested in the unit, deployed in the Kentsyn area: Porsche "Tiger (P)" and Henschel. Henschel's "Tiger" won and became Germany's main tank. By the end of the war 1,355 "Tiger I" machines were produced.

In this publication You will find paper models of two tanks, that clashed in relentless battles on the Eastern Front during World War II. The first is the Soviet tank KV-1A, and the second is the legendary German tank "TIGER I". The assembly instructions are provided in Czech, German and English. The models are designed in such a way, that they can be perfectly assembled even by beginner modelers without any help from more experienced colleagues. But more experienced modelers may also be surprised at how much realism goes into those simple models.