RCW/BoB/AVBCW: LK II
18/07/2013 2 Comments
The Germans in WW1 were slow (if not almost stationery) in getting off the mark when it came to tanks. They did produce the A7V in small numbers which was a slow lumbering beast, but having encountered the French FT-17, and then the British Whippet took the plunge and commissioned a Leichte Kampfewagen which turned into the LK II. They were too late to see combat but a small number were ready by the end of WW1. The Germans, prohibited from having tanks by the Allied Powers, sold them to Sweden.
Whilst Rich pinned it together he innocently commented that it look like an agricultural tractor, and I had to point out that that was how the Germans listed them after WW1 when shipping them to Sweden:
The parts were shipped as boiler plates and agricultural equipment and then assembled in Sweden as the Stridsvagn m/21 (Strv m/21 for short), which was essentially an improved version of the LK II prototype.
A nice little model even if the pictures don’t show the back plate….
The Lost City of Carcosa 
Oh I like it and I want one
The kit comes with both a 37mm canon (yes all of 4cm) and an HMG. The LK 11 pictured is built with the 37mm canon, I have ordered a second one for the HMG that the Swedes built it with. It was used up until 1938 so a possible item, for AVBCW. I have some details on Swedish volunteers in the RCW as well. More to follow…
To go with the Swedish troops I’ve ordered.
Obviously.
Does anyone know of any Moose models ?