Soviet KV-1S/85 Heavy Tank

Although I used to mainly focus on Tamiya kits, I am quickly becoming a fan of Trumpeter kits, because of their attention to fine detail and focus in producing models of the more obscure historical tank prototypes/proposals. The only drawbacks I could find to the kit, was no optional long rubber tread belts, and the lack of any other optional weapon gun tubes for the kit. I have seen that Trumpeter does make a standard KV-1S kit, but the actual need for such, with its accompanying production hassles/expense could have easily been avoided by just producing a small parts tree with the optional weaponry. The standard KV-1S was equipped with either the 76.2mm ZiS-5 or F-34 gun, and there was even a proposal unit that was to be equipped with the 57mm ZiS-4 gun. I have plenty of both 76.2mm types left over from other model builds, so it doesn't bother me so much, but the 57mm gun tube is fairly elusive. The weapons mantle system can be swapped out for that from Trumpeter's KV-8 kit, to build a KV-8S version. Overall, the quality and detail of the kit is excellent, and I would recommend it to others.