{"product_id":"is-3-heavy-tank-shuka-1-25-scale","title":"“Shchuka” IS-3 (Object 703) - Heavy Tank | 1:25 Scale","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt missed the war by weeks. Then it rolled through Berlin and changed what every army thought a tank should look like.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe IS-3 was born from damage reports. After Kursk, Soviet engineers studied knocked-out tanks and found that most hits landed on the front hull and turret. In April 1944 the State Defense Committee ordered a heavy tank built around one goal: protection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwo design teams answered. At Plant No. 100, designers built a hull front from two \u003cstrong\u003e110mm plates angled sharply to meet in a point\u003c\/strong\u003e. They called it a “nose with a hump” at first. The name that stuck was \u003cstrong\u003eshchuchiy nos\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003e“pike nose.”\u003c\/strong\u003e At Chelyabinsk, the other team designed a \u003cstrong\u003elow, rounded cast turret\u003c\/strong\u003e with enormous frontal armor. The production tank, \u003cstrong\u003eObject 703\u003c\/strong\u003e, combined the two over the proven IS-2 gun, engine, and running gear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt came too late. The first eight were built in February 1945, and only 25 existed by May 1. All of them were still at the factory when Germany surrendered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThen, on \u003cstrong\u003eSeptember 7, 1945\u003c\/strong\u003e, the IS-3s of the 71st Guards Heavy Tank Regiment drove through Berlin in the Allied Victory Parade. Western officers watched a tank with a pointed prow and a turret like an upturned bowl roll past, and it looked like nothing they had. Britain and the United States both went on to build heavy tanks of their own in answer to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIts real combat came later: the streets of Budapest in 1956, and with Egypt in the Sinai during the Six-Day War of 1967. Russia didn’t formally retire the IS-3 until 1997.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShchuka\u003c\/strong\u003e means “pike,” named for the nose that made it famous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat you’re building:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e1,421 pieces\u003c\/strong\u003e in 1:25 scale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe IS-3 silhouette: the double-sloped “pike nose,” the low hemispherical turret, and the 122mm D-25T\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWorking suspension\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFull interior detail\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpening hatches\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElevating main gun\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRotating turret\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e100% pad-printed markings, zero stickers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo figures included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSame gun and running gear as the IS-2. Display them side by side to see the wartime design and the one it inspired.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"BrixKrieg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55391690228011,"sku":"SHKA_IS3","price":133.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/0155\/9851\/files\/IS3_1.png?v=1793295728","url":"https:\/\/brixkrieg.com\/products\/is-3-heavy-tank-shuka-1-25-scale","provider":"BrixKrieg","version":"1.0","type":"link"}