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Published: 2008-09-21 02:05:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 6633; Favourites: 97; Downloads: 0
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An Italian M13/40 encounters a KV1c on the Eastern Front, 1942.This took me about six hours all told, all in PSCS1.
I used lots of references for the AFVs but found out the KV1c didn't always have the same gun-mantlet!? So, half-way through working on the KV1 turret I found that little nugget out.
I'm really quite chuffed with this, C&C is encouraged though!
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"Well, time to switch to the Infantry corps" The Italian tank commander said as a Soviet KV-1 appeared
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Well, glad you liked the comment
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автор, я тебя уважаю))
хорошая работа, с всех сторон и под всеми углами).
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Спасибо за добрые слова. Я действительно должен вернуться к выполнению еще несколько бака искусства.
I know no Russian whatsoever, so hopefully this Google translate tool works ok....
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uhum, Google Translate works ok. ))
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Italian Tanker: "that does it, I'm done here!!"
Russian Tanker: "How cute..."
Awesome tank artwork, I didn't know much about the Italian armor assault on the Eastern Front ?
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They didn't take part in many armour assaults as such. They didn't have enough armoured vehicles to create dedicated armoured divisions like the Germans did; they used them more like the French as support for the infantry.
Thanks for the thumbs up.
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the KV would scared the crap out of me if i was in the Italian tank
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Agreed. Most Russian tanks easily outclassed the poor Italians. Plus the Romanians and Hungarians too!
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So true, hopelessly outclassed...
Too bad the tanks the ARMIR had there were even less powerful than the M13, so they should have stayed home. Why bother sending more than 200,000 men halfway across Europe if you can't even equip them properly so they at least have a chance?
Btw, very nice pic! I stand in awe of your technical prowess!
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Thanks for the big thumbs up sir.
Agreed on the state of Italian armour. Mussolini's eagerness to impress his German allies sent the Italians to war far too early. The mechanisation of their army was impressive in the 1930s but unfortunately they did it far too early, swamping their ranks with useless tankettes.
Saying that, I did manage to take out a KV1 in Combat Mission with an M13 - well quite a few. I did need to get the KV to turn around to get a few rear shots.
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The only thing to do if you're outgunned... pray and try to flank them.
Exactly what is the meaning of the inscription on the turret's side?
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Flanking is the only option.
As for the inscription? If you'd asked me back in 2008 I could have told you - totally forgotten now! Mind you, it's likely to be something along the lines of "For the Motherland" or some variation of that.
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Cheers for yourself devoting so much time in this kickass artwork!
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No problem - I enjoyed it!
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Hi, wonderful work. What I really love is the Carro Armato m13/40. While the KV1 is mostly greenish colors, the M13/40 have a lot of elements and details that make it more richers to the eye. Keep it up buddy! =0)
Cheers from Puerto Rico.
Pedro.
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Hi Pedro, thanks for the thumbs up mate!
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У тебя не КВ-1 вышел, а Т-34.
It's look like T-34. Not KV-1
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In what way? The chassis is correct, as are the wheels, turret and gun.
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Tower and gun. KV-1 have a little different one's.
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Really sorry to argue the point but it really does look like a KV1 turret and gun; [link]
It's boxy, with no curves except for underneath the rear of the turret and the gun mantlet has both the bulges either side. Agreed, the gun looks very similar to a T34/76 but then again, it did use the same armament.
The T34/76 had a very curved turret that was very small in comparision to the KV1 [link] the later T34/85, although bigger was still nowhere near as boxy [link]
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Well... we have a real monument of a KV-1 in the town/ I don't say. thet is not rigth/ That was an opinion of my mind.
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yup - totally ill-equipped for North Africa let alone the Eastern Front!
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oh yeah, im seeing it, almost looks like one side of a hatch is in the same place where the cannon is facing and its targeting the M13
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or it just couldnt handle downhills and uphills
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Which one? They're both real?
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the italian mk.it got the gas tanks strapped to the side, it can barely move and there's just a machine gun mounted on it 
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Ah, I see - the turret is actually facing away from us - it does in fact has a small 30mm cannon as well. Here's a photo showing the vehicle in atll it's glory!
[link]
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Actually it has a 47 mm gun good both against tanks and against infantry - of course, it's useless against the KV, if it doesn't it in the rear at point blank.
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Agreed, just looked it up!
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oups. I messed up, it was the kv1. I knew about some T-tanks i saw on TV and the kv1 wasnt there so i didnt know they had that too and i thought the kv1 is italian if they were behind in technology. But now it makes sense.
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Even this tank surely would be the easiest kill of the day for the KV-1 crew.
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Anything fielded by the Italians was obsolete on the eastern front.
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Cheers DingoPatagonico!! 
And thanks for the fav too!
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wtf is wrong with that italian piece of crapola, its rear wheels are completely exposed!
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Yup - that's good old Italian tank design for ya!
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Admittedly Italians are not born fighters, with the exception of the Mafia...blind obedience is not an Italian virtue.
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Awesome job here.
Lol, that Italian tank has no fuckin chance, for it couldn't even stop rifle rounds
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Anti-tank rifle rounds maybe.
Cheers for the thumbs up!
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that is very good, pls draw more of II WW panzer clashes 
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I am hoping to do more WW2 artwork in the future.
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