Short history: The m/42 KP-Truck (“KP Bil” in Swedish) was first issued to Swedish units in 1944. KP stands for “Kaross Pansar” meaning “armoured body”. They were manufactured by both Volvo and Scania (VKP m/42 and SKP m/42 respektively) and based on standard …
Introduction: The UN campaign in the Congo in the 1960’s has always fascinated me, especially since Sweden was quick to contribute with UN forces in that conflict. It is also interesting to see the astounding variation of vehicles used by the Swede’s …
Last weekend I spent an afternoon at the recently rebuilt air force museum in Linköping, Sweden. I thought I’d tell you what I think of the new exhibition. The museum is dedicated to the various aircraft used by the Swedish …
Stridsvagn 74 was a light tank that was made from a Stridsvagn m/42 (that was considered a heavy tank in its day) with a new turret armed with a 75mm gun. This home built tank was choosen instead of the …
We had the opportunity recently to visit the museum of military vehicles, Arsenalen, that is under construction outside Strängnäs in Sweden. Arsenalen is replacing two older museums, the armour museum at Axvall, that closed down permanently last summer, and a …
Finally, here is the rest of the photographs from C4 Open 2010. We hope you have enjoyed our report! Theme class C4 Open always have a special theme class. This year the theme was “In a Blue Berret”, which means …
In this, the third part of the galleries from C4 Open we will look at some of the dioramas and the ships that were displayed. Unfortunately I think I might have missed a handful of dioramas with my camera. My …
Continuing our report from C4 Open 2010. Here is the second part, the gallery of the various aircraft classes. C4 2010 part 1 C4 2010 part 2 C4 2010 part 3 C4 2010 part 4
I have split this report in to several parts, since there are a lot of pictures. First out is the gallery for military vehicles. C4 2010 part 1 C4 2010 part 2 C4 2010 part 3 C4 2010 part 4
Better late than never? Right? Anyway, here are some pictures from C4-Open in 2009. I thought it could be nice having them on the site, since C4-Open 2010 is just a few days away. By the way, that´s Ulf Lundberg …
A box arrived in my mail..
I will do an inbox review on the Voyager and MK1 Design photoetch for the CV90 shortly.
Hello all..
In case you are interested, here is a small update on my Swedish M3 Scout Car used in the Congo at the link below. My apologies for it being in Swedish. Once the model is complete, I will post an article here on PW in English 
The vehicle will be pulling a trailer which is currently in the “weathering workshop”.
Cheers,
Sven
My package from Lucky Models have now been out there, alone in the world, for a whole month. I hate this waiting..
..always waits for too long.
Some lucky people have already begun receiving their HobbyFan Pbv 302’s. This unlucky b***rd is still waiting for the box to finish it´s journey from Hong Kong to Sweden.
Whenever it arrives, however, you can be sure that it will be reveiwed on this site.
It has been rumored for some time that the CV9040C, the up armoured version of the Strf 9040 that has seen international service in Liberia and currently in Afghanistan was on the way in 1/35.
Apparently Hobby Boss is showing off some cad-renderings at the Nuremberg Spielwarenmesse, as Kjell Svensson is tipsing us about here.
Just wanted to give the heads up on the latest project from the PW author, Sven Young. A tank trailer for his splendid M3 scout car in swedish kongo-service. I hope we’ll see both of them here soon. See the progress on the IPMS Stockholm website.
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We hope you´ll find them worth looking at.
Jens Lindell of Hobby-Importen is selling a 1/72 resin kit of the Volvo Pltgb 903 also called “Valpen” (The Puppy). See a picture of the kit here.
