During the 1930's Sweden hummed and hawed about whether to buy tanks, and if so which type. As so many other countries they got worried in the latter part of the decade, and finally ended up ordering a number of Czech tanks. These, however, were ceased by the Germans before dispatch, but they did agree to let Sweden make their own tanks from the drawings as compensation. In total Sweden made about 200 of the now renamed Stridsvagn m/41, most of them by the truck manufacturer Scania in the town of Södertälje.
It still looked remarkably like the Czech variant, the differences partly hidden or not visible on a model. The weapons were Swedish instead of Czech (so I've turned the main gun upside down and I'm still using the wrong machine guns), and the motor were Swedish. The Swedish tower had two periscopes instead of one, some small parts are different (most of them I don't know what they are), and the Swedish tanks always had extra road-wheels behind the tower. I've also turned the front plate upside down; hopefully it's such a good conversion you can't even see it.
You can read more about this tank here and if you read Swedish I recommend this excellent site.
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