{"id":498,"date":"2011-08-22T22:08:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T03:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:14:13","slug":"kv-2-gigant-russian-tank-in-148th-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"KV-2 Gigant Russian Tank in 1\/48th Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5106.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10267\" style=\"width:200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5106.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5106-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5106-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5106-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is the first armor model I&#8217;ve built in approximately 30 years.\u00a0 I had a lot of fun with the kit, and I finished it in record time for me &#8211; just under four weeks from the time I cut the first pieces off the sprue until the final paint was dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried out a lot of weathering techniques on this, and messing around with the paint and those effects was the best part of the project.\u00a0 My full write-up and photos on the build are <a href=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?page_id=10278\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"10278\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first armor model I&#8217;ve built in approximately 30 years.\u00a0 I had a lot of fun with the kit, and I finished it in record time for me &#8211; just under four weeks from the time I cut the first pieces off the sprue until the final paint was dry. I tried out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modeling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pha1lg-82","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10670,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}