Joseph Stalin III tank (JS-3 / IS-3)

[marshall1945]

Got these on a recent visit to the Pendraken premises (nice to see you Leon and your place of work - surprisingly tidy and well organised operation, having last visited a miniatures manufacturer back in the 70s which was certainly neither!). A company ready now for some Berlin 1945 scenarios:

http://smww2andnapoleonic.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/joseph-stalin-iii-tank-js-3-is-3.html

Steve

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice review!

[Westmarcher]

Ah, nostalgic! My first Airfix tank was a JS3. 

[Techno]

Good stuff !
Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

My first was a Lee. I still remember my delight at a little turret on top, with an extra-little turret on that.
About forty years later, here I am married to a Lee. Truly the child is father of the man.

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

[marshall1945]

my first tank kit was probably an Airfix Tiger 1, it was certainly one of the first. My first ever kit was a Matchbox aircraft, the BAC Strikemaster Mk.80/86 when I was about 7. I was more interested in tanks though through the years. Matchbox kits went together much better than Airfix which were often pigs to make - Churchill being the worst with all those individual wheels.

I got about 8 or 9 Airfix JS-3s from my cousin in my teens (all made) but then I converted them in to JS-152s with plasticard. The guns were dowel rods I put in an electric drill and machined with my Dad's chisels.

[Ithoriel]

First kit was Stephenson's Rocket bought, iirc, in 1962.

To the best of my recollection I've never had a model IS3!

However, recently played a game of BKC notionally set in or around Kummersdorf in May 1945 involving both IS3s and a Maus and eventually devolving into the tank equivalent of Monitor vs. Merrimac!

[fred.]

I can't remember what my first model kit would have been, and it was s lot more recent than I's. I've got a re-collection of a 1/12th scale French napoleonic infantry man? But would be hard pressed to confirm if it was my first kit. Lots of early kits were aircraft, then there were lots of the polythene ones that came in the airfix playsets.

[Techno]

I think my first kit was a Spitfire. 
Can't remember making many planes...and I'm sure I never made a tank.

Can remember making Henry VIII.....(1/12 scale ?).....a knight of some sort, and a 'skelington'.

Cheers - Phil

[Orcs]

My First kit was a Foker DR1 in one of those nice airfix plastic bags

First kit was Stephenson's Rocket bought, iirc, in 1962.

I am sure there are a few digs in this for Techno, but as I am in his bad books I will l;eave it for someone else to pick this up