Intended for 3d print.

Swedish submachinegun squad from the the interbellum/early WW2 era. The soldiers are using the following equipment:

• The M/39 uniform.

• The M/37 steel helmet.

• The Kulsprutepistol M/37. Based on the Finnish Suomi kp M/31, designed by Aimo Lahti. Early versions of the M/37 used the same 9x20mm caliber as the M/07 pistol (see below), but was later changed to the more common 9mm Parabellum.

• The M/39 stick grenade. Known as the M24 Stiehlhandgranate in Germany. Imported and reclassified at the outset of the war, when the Swedish-made M/40 grenade proved unreliable.

• The M/96 Bayonet (doubling as a knife). To my knowledge a Swedish design, and mainly manufactured in Sweden and Germany.

• The M/07 Pistol. Also known FN Model 03, originally designed by John Moses Browning. Manufactured in Sweden under licence from Belgian Fabrique Nationale.

Overall, the early-war Swedish army arsenal was a hodge-podge of obsolete or hastily procured stopgap equipment, especially when it came to automatic weapons. A lot of the troops would have to make do with both weapons and clothing that were older than the equipment used for these models (like the M/21 helmet, or even the M/23 uniform). Despite never entering the war, the army would rapidly rearm and expand over the course of WW2, and ended it with substantially upgraded kit for the troops.

A submachinegun squad was, to my knowledge, not an actual subdivision of the army organization at the time. Submachinegunners were integrated into the standard rifle platoon. Initially, presumably due to a dearth of actual submachineguns in stock, only the squad leaders of rifle platoons (there were 4 rifle squads and 1 mortar squad in each platoon) were equipped with submachineguns. They were also provided in small numbers to certain specialist troops like Jäger battalions. An additional submachinegun would be issued to each squad in a 1943 reform, along with two semiautomatic rifles.

I guess the main takeaway from the rant above is, if you want to make a historically accurate Swedish tabletop army, you'll have to purchase both this model pack and the rifle platoon model pack released as a separate product (see link below), and compose squads out of the two.

https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/miniatures/war/swedish-ww2-rifle-platoon-early-war-era

Printing instructions

Recommended printing scale is 28mm. The default scale of the models is also approximately 28mm when you first load them into your slicer. Note that you can easily alter the size of the models prior to printing. No models are currently pre-supported. Personally I think this gives the customer greater flexibility (as well as saving me quite a bit of effort...) , but you are welcome to send me a request to pre-support all models, and I'll upload them to the product free of charge. If you have any additional questions, for example re: various historical aspects, you can also contact me. I'm no expert, but I do have access to some fairly credible historical sources I've used when designing the models.