"Coldwar Swedish Infantry 1/300th help needed" Topic

Hi Everyone,

I'm thinking of buying some Heroics and Ros Swedish microtanks and I wondered what people consider good proxies for Swedish infantry for the late 1970s/early 1980s period?

I've been building other Heroics and Ros forces so I want to stick with their infantry as this will give me a good matchup in size.

The question of support weapons also puzzles me. Any help greatly appreciated.

P.S. Also which mark of Centurion should I use? Was it markedly different to the standard models?

German infantry should do fine with G3s. The MAG58 should really replace the MG3, but I don't know how visible that would be. No heavy machineguns for support, but 12cm mortars (and possibly 8cm mortars) should do fine. Any idea what kind of forces you want to do? Tank battalion? Motorized infantry? Local defence?

The Centurions would be Mk 3, Mk 5 and Mk 10, all with 105mm guns by then. No big IR searchlight though. Otherwise no big difference as far as I can tell.

Good luck with the project!

I used BAOR figures as the H&R Germans were not released when I did my Swedes. The big British camoflaged covered helmets look similar to the Swede helmets with floppy camo covers. Mind you it hardly matters too much in 1;300.

British used Carl Gustav's so at leaast they look right.

Would probably work excellent. SLR vs G3 in 1/300 is fairly similar, and you get the MAG 58 and Charlie G.

I'd use Mainforce, much more robust, see here

TMP link

Thanks guys,

Lots of useful ideas.Just as it happens I'm painting up some 1/300th Bundeswehr from H&R at the moment and I'll probably go with them for the Swedish forces.

How do the Mainforce figures rank up aainst H&R figures I wonder Jarrovian? They look good, but I like the H&R anatomies as they scale really well with the vehicles.

Thanks guys.

@Kropotkin303
No basing or deflashing with Mainforce. I prefer them to
H & R, more robust, and they tend to stay where you put them as opposed to card based H & R. No figures broken off at the ankles either. Some of the figures are a little bulky or chunky. You'll get a better perspective here

link

Painting is easy. Either spray your base colour and paint the figures (washes and drybrush are your friends), or spray the figures basic uniform colour, add detail, then brush paint the base I've done both.

Nationalities are interchangeable in the modern range (except Taliban). WWII less so, although I'm about to paint up some WWII British as Jordanians for Arab/Israeli wars.