HobbyBoss 1/48 Russian KV-1 Model 1941 "KV Small Turret" Tank (84810)

The KV-1 Model 1941 with small turret represents the early production variant of the Soviet Union's most important heavy tank, entering service just as Germany launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. The smaller cast turret of the early production vehicles was succeeded by progressively thicker and larger turrets as the war progressed, but the 1941 small-turret KV-1 bore the brunt of the initial German onslaught and proved almost invulnerable to German tank and anti-tank gun fire at normal combat ranges in the early months of the war — a shock to German Panzer crews accustomed to relatively easy kills. This HobbyBoss 1/48 kit (84810) captures this historically significant early variant.