Scarce Swede safely sourced - Strv-103 'S-Tank'

The reason I ended up with the battered Jagdpanzer Kanone which featured here recently was the model which accompanied it.  None other then that rarest of rarities a Tamiya 1/48 Strv-103 S-Tank.  I've been gently on the lookout for such things for some years now and while they often crop up on eBay they are often very expensive.

Regular sufferers of this blog will be aware I have something of a weakness for the S-Tank  - but after five Volvos and three Saabs that's hardly a surprise!  The Tamiya model was in decent shape - afflicted only by dust and a shortage of tracks.  The former I can live with - the latter was cured with more packing straps.

But the story doesn't end there.  Having secured one reasonably priced S-Tank you may imagine my delight when within a few days I found a second!  This time it was the Aurora kit - part built and seemingly in possession of all of it's parts.

 This one even had tracks!  What luxury.  It was soon built and in the queue for painting.

I need hardly add that if you have one of these kits gathering dust in your attic then either make your fortune on eBay or do the decent thing and send it to me!

Operation Dragoon

Not what you thought, eh?  You'll perhaps recall the appearance of these 1/32 scale chaps in a previous post.  This box of Armies in Plastic 18th Century cavalry was, I freely confess, an impulse purchase as I wanted to see if I could actually paint figures for this period.  As to whether I can - I'll let you be the judge.

The colour scheme was inspired by the early C18 Swedish Dragoon in the Funcken 'Lace Wars' books.  As usual they were topped off with a coat of gloss outdoor varnish.

So will there be more of this sort of thing?  Well anything is possible.