The Swedish Air Force in Plastic (beta version)
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This page is meant to be a useful starting point for the scale modeller / plastic modeller with an interest in modelling the equipment of the Swedish Air Force (svenska flygvapnet) as well as other Swedish public authorities (i.e. police and coastguard) that operates aircraft. It contains of an overview of the kits on the market, a part about where they can be found and finally some links to pages that may be useful for the Swedish Air Force modeller.

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Overview of available models
This part is not meant to list every kit or variant of kit every made, the purpose better described as offering the interested modeller an overview of which planes and helicopter that have been made as plastic kits. Nor does it aim to go in to detail about every kit's pros and cons, the general rule that certain manufactures makes more accurate kits than others applies in this field of plastic modelling as in all others (this could perhaps be described as “the more expensive the kit(and the newer the tooling) is , the more accurate it will be” - as always there are exceptions to that rule....).
 

Sk 11 - The classic Tiger Moth is made by Airfix, Smer and other (not including decals with the kit).
Sk
16 – Several manufactures including Airfix, Heller and Academy makes kits of this family of airplanes. Some research and scratchbuilding may be needed in order to achieve a accurate result.
Fpl17 - Marivox (1/72 scale as all Marivox kits).
Fpl 21 – Heller has
made a kit of the J21A in 1/72 scale. Broplan makes a conversion kit to the jet powered variant J21R.
Fpl 22 – Marivox makes a kit of this aircraft in 1/72 scale.
Fpl 26
Fpl 28
Fpl 29 – Heller, Airfix, Matchbox makes 1/72 kits, it is also avaible in 1/48 scale as a resin kit
from NeOmega Resin.
Fpl 30
Fpl 32
Fpl 35 – Draken has been made by Revell and Airfix in 1/72 scale and by Hasegawa in both 1/72 and 1/48 scale.
Fpl 37
- Offered by Airfix (orginally made by ESCI) in 1/48. 1/72 versions are made by Airfix, Heller (Sk 37 with dual cockpits),  Matchbox, Hasegawa etc....
Fpl 39
Fpl 50 – Heller makes a 1/72 scale kit of the SAAB Safir (more current runs are probably delivered in a plastic bag rather than normal packing), MJD Models makes a wooden RC-kit.
Fpl 60 – Marivox makes a kit in 1/72 scale (SAAB 105, kit can be built in six version, nine decal sets included. Austrian version possible).
Sk 61 – Airfix
has a 1/72 kit of the Sk 61 Bulldog.

Hpk 4 - Airfix (1/72), Academy (1/48)
 

This list builds mainly on an article in Allt om Hobby (www.hobby.se), november 2008 – this article (written in Swedish) has a comprehensive list of what is available as 1/72 scale kits.

Other aircraft
in public service
Kustbevakningen / Coastguard: Cessna
F-337 Super Skymaster (SE-GMM, preserved at Aeroseum) – has been made by Heller in (1/50 scale), from time to time available second-hand (on auction sites for instance).
Kustbevakningen / Coastguard: Casa C-212 - Broplan has made a kit consisting of vacuum formed and injection molded parts.

Polisen / Police: Bell 206 Jetranger/Longranger – has been made by Heller in (1/50 scale), from time to time available second hand (as above, watch auction sites)
Polisen / Police: Eurocopter EC 135 – an accurate kit of this chopper has been offered by Revell in 1/35 scale
, released in 2005. The kit consists of Revells standard EC 135 kits and extra sprues with country specific details. Perhaps nothing for the novice modeller, but will assemble in to a faithful reproduction of the helicopters currently in use by the Swedish police.
Sold both in a gift pack with paint and glue as well as just the kit alone (kit# 04484).

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Suppliers
Rebell Hobby, Stockholm, Sweden – Sells plastic models as well as a vast range of extra details, decals etc.
Probably one of the best starting points for the modeller with a special interest in the Swedish Airforce.
Moduni, Hamburg, Germany – Sells plastic models, tools, accessories and much more.
MJD Models, Sweden – Maker of RC plane kits of Swedish prototypes including SAAB Safir, B 17 and J 29.
Hannants
, Lowesoft (and London), United Kingdom - large and well known retailer.
Tradera
- Swedish auction and online trading place, owned by eBay. For plastic models see the sub-category Plastbyggsatser in the Hobby & Lek category (Hobby & Lek > Plastbyggsatser).

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Useful links
IPMS Stockholm  – Well frequented forums, articles, paint references and much more.
IPMS Sverige – International Plastic Modellers Society Swedish Chapter – The national chapter of IMPS, links to the regional chapters, hobby shop guide and more.
IPMS (UK)  – the british IMPS chapter has special interest group for the Swedish Airforce
 

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