{"product_id":"mikhails-revenge-is-2","title":"“Mikhail’s Revenge” IS-2 Model 1944  - Heavy Tank | 1:25 Scale","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"\u003eFour words on a turret. One brother who didn’t come home.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Месть за брата героя.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevenge for the Hero Brother.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThose words were hand-painted in white across the turret of a Soviet IS-2. Behind them were two brothers from the Ryazan region who went to tank school together in 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe younger brother, \u003cstrong\u003eNikolay Krasikov\u003c\/strong\u003e, became a Guards Lieutenant and tank commander in the \u003cstrong\u003e48th Guards Heavy Tank Regiment\u003c\/strong\u003e. In the autumn of 1943, during the fight for the Dnieper bridgehead and the drive on Kyiv, his award citation credits his crew with knocking out a tank and two guns at Lyutezh, four more guns at Novye Petrovtsy, and three at Vyshhorod. In one action he broke out of an encirclement while recovering a disabled tank and evacuating its wounded company commander.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOn \u003cstrong\u003eNovember 11, 1943\u003c\/strong\u003e, at Vinnitskie Stavy, Nikolay was killed. He was nineteen. In April 1944 he was posthumously named a \u003cstrong\u003eHero of the Soviet Union\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHis older brother \u003cstrong\u003eMikhail\u003c\/strong\u003e kept fighting. Later in the war he commanded an IS-2 with his brother’s memory painted on the turret. A wartime photograph, published as the 1st Belorussian Front in February 1945, shows the tank, the inscription, and a tanker in the hatch. Regional histories say Mikhail fought west through Ukraine and Poland toward Pomerania. He didn’t live to see the victory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNikolay never served in an IS-2. The tank was only adopted on October 31, 1943, eleven days before he was killed. It was his brother who took it to war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE TANK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eIS-2\u003c\/strong\u003e was the Red Army’s breakthrough heavy tank: around \u003cstrong\u003e46 tonnes\u003c\/strong\u003e, a four-man crew, and the massive \u003cstrong\u003e122mm D-25T\u003c\/strong\u003e gun firing a shell of roughly 25 kilograms. That shell was built to destroy fortifications, antitank guns, and buildings, and it could wreck a Panther or a Tiger with a single hit. The trade-off was a slow loading cycle: separate shell and propellant, and only \u003cstrong\u003e28 rounds\u003c\/strong\u003e carried.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eModel 1944\u003c\/strong\u003e is the mature version. Its straightened front hull eliminated the vulnerable driver’s hatch of early production, giving the tank a cleaner, stronger glacis. IS-2s were concentrated in Guards heavy tank regiments and sent where the line had to be broken: Korsun, the Sandomierz bridgehead, the Vistula, Pomerania, Berlin. About 3,400 were built.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT HISTORY DOESN’T TELL US\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe tank’s serial number and final fate have never been traced. Accounts differ on exactly when and where Mikhail died. Nikolay’s story is documented in his wartime award citation. Mikhail’s lives on in a single photograph. That’s enough.\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\u003e1,485 pieces\u003c\/strong\u003e in 1:25 scale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe IS-2 Model 1944 silhouette: straightened front hull, cast turret, and the long 122mm D-25T with its double-baffle muzzle brake\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\n\u003cstrong\u003e100% pad-printed markings, zero stickers\u003c\/strong\u003e, including the turret inscription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo figures included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"BrixKrieg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55012947493163,"sku":"MKHL_IS2","price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/0155\/9851\/files\/IS2.png?v=1793295787","url":"https:\/\/brixkrieg.com\/products\/mikhails-revenge-is-2","provider":"BrixKrieg","version":"1.0","type":"link"}