KV-220 Heavy tank

Product Number: #300031

Piece Count: 876

Scale: 1:40

Recommended Age: 6+

About this set

A heavy tank concept build inspired by the KV-220 idea, featuring a long hull and confident, armored shaping. The set is designed to feel substantial in hand and to present a distinctive silhouette next to more common variants. The KV-220 Heavy tank subject reflects wartime armored and support-vehicle design trends from the first half of the twentieth century, when factories raced to balance armor, firepower, and mobility. Logistics mattered as much as duels: fuel consumption, spare parts, and recovery vehicles determined whether an armored unit could fight again the next morning. Today, restored museum hulls, technical drawings, and veteran memoirs together help historians separate factory-standard features from field modifications. Anti-tank and artillery counterparts evolved in parallel, so the “paper” performance of one gun often met a moving target, slope effects, and range estimation errors in real engagements. Cold-weather trials, desert dust, and urban rubble each exposed different failure modes that later production blocks attempted to correct. Historical records tie designs like the KV-220 Heavy tank to wartime materiel priorities of the World War II era, when commanders demanded more firepower, mobility, and survivability from the same tight industrial budgets. Full-scale vehicles were iterated in response to battlefield feedback: thicker plates, revised suspensions, and new guns often arrived faster than official manuals could be reprinted. Crew training emphasized teamwork under stress—driver, gunner, and commander each depended on hatches, vision blocks, and intercom layouts reflected in many period photographs.

• High-quality ABS plastic construction
• Detailed instruction manual included
• Compatible with major building block brands