Local hobby show musings

[SebastianP]

This year's C4 Open (a local show arranged by IPMS Öresund in Malmö, Sweden), was held this weekend (Oct 25/26), and had as it's theme class "In Crown Dress" - basically, build anything you want in Swedish colors, or any Swedish craft as some other nation's. Sadly, my camera was on the fritz, but I may be able to get some links to photos later... But no matter, I'll try to list what I remember seeing, as ideas for future reference... :-)

Among the pieces that caught my interest were:

Three Strv 103C tanks (S-Tanks), done up in Russian, German and US camo, with appropriate crew figures and extra details. The German tank was done up WWII style, while the US version had a CROWS turret, among other things.

"En Svensk Tiger" - this translates to either "A Swedish Tiger" or "A Swede Keeps Quiet", and the slogan was printed on posters with a blue-and-yellow-striped cartoon tiger during WWII. Naturally, someone chose to do a King Tiger in the same colors.

Super Draken - a Saab J-35 with canardlets, and other improvements, based on a proposal from the 80s for an alternative to the Gripen. Looked pretty cool.

Classic Draken - "Drake" means "Dragon" in Swedish, and of course there was a fantasy dragon submitted with Swedish roundels on the wings...

J-29 Night Fighter - Saab J-29 Tunnan ('Flying Barrel') in WWII Luftwaffe night fighter colors, complete with radar antennas as on the UHU nightfighter.

Swedish Hornet - F/A-18 with Swedish roundels, based on a manipulated promo photo from the early 80s, when McDonnell Douglas tried to pitch the Hornet to Sweden

HMS Carl Gustaf - a 1/700 Kiev-class aircraft carrier, with Swedish armament (RBS-15 twin launchers x lots; two RBS-23 BAMSE SAM launchers, about a dozen 57 mm guns); a Swedish Air Wing (Sea Knight, Gripen, Viggen and Draken, painted appropriately) and a nice overall paint scheme. Utterly gorgeous. According to the build notes, the aircraft were scratchbuilt and resin-copied; the Sea Knight and Viggens had splinter camo.

Aside from those, there were a host of gorgeous-looking non-whiff models, including a large fleet (six or so) of 1/72 scale subs, and a pair of Italeri's 1/35 torpedo boats; and the usual armor and aircraft models, none of which were all that interesting other than for their build quality.

I'll see if I can bug someone for pictures next week, when the IPMS club meets next - gotta go become a member anyway...

SP

[Aircav]

I found some pictures of the show on the internet and looked like a good show. 
http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q118/WildeSau_photos/C4%20Open/2008/?start=all

[Scooterman]

I liked the UH-60 with the day-glo.   


MMMMmmmmm Day-glo................

[ChernayaAkula]

The Carl Gustaf is just too cool! 

Nice pics! Thanks for linking!

The Israeli S-Tank looks pretty cool. The Marines Viggen in the background isn't bad either. 

[nev]

Swedish Hornet - F/A-18 with Swedish roundels, based on a manipulated promo photo from the early 80s, when McDonnell Douglas tried to pitch the Hornet to Sweden

I have that picture in a book - never realised it was an 80s photoshop though!

[philp]

Anyone else get a pic of the Swedish Spitsfire.  Never thought about using that kit in the Spitfire GB.

[Aircav]

Anyone else get a pic of the Swedish Spitsfire.  Never thought about using that kit in the Spitfire GB.

I did, got mine build as it comes out of the box except I've add the darts