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                        Russian JS-2 question.

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                        Reaper420
                        • Member since
                          June 2013
                        • From: Bay Area, CA
                        Russian JS-2 question.
                        Posted by Reaper420 on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 3:49 PM
                        Okay guys I had a question. I searched the interwebs and could not find anything concrete or well anything at all to clarify for me. So I was wondering, is the JS-2 the same as the IS-2? You know, one in the same like the King Tiger/Tiger II and the ME109/BF109 ( I know ME is Messerschmitt and the BF is the model designation)? Probably should have put this in the general discussion forum, but I figured it might be more productive and get quicker responses here. Thanks for the help guys!

                        Kick the tires and light the fires!

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                        GMorrison
                        • Member since
                          September 2012
                        Posted by GMorrison on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 4:06 PM

                        Short answer yes. And IS-2 is the correct name.

                         Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

                         

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                        the doog
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                          January 2007
                        Posted by the doog on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:10 PM

                        Yes, it has something to do with the Russian letter for "J" being written as an "I".

                        "Josef Stalin" is "iosef Stalin" in Russian.

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                        Reaper420
                        • Member since
                          June 2013
                        • From: Bay Area, CA
                        Posted by Reaper420 on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:37 PM
                        Thanks guys. I figured it was. I ask because I was looking for a 1/35 Tamiya IS-2 but kept getting JS-2. When I looked at the kit at my LHS, I was like "it looks exactly the same" so I figured it must be and bought it.

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                        stikpusher
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                          July 2004
                        • From: Sonora Desert
                        Posted by stikpusher on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 6:31 PM

                        And something along the lines of most European languages of the "J" being pronounced like a "Y" consonant in English (remember in English, Y swings both ways, vowel and consonant), and in the translation of words and names from the English/Latin alphabet and the Russian/Cyrillic alphabet. Fun stuff for us when trying to read signs in that part of the world. Joseph = Josef/Iosef (and pronounced Yosef)...

                         

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