Alan, I'm looking forward to these new offerings. Like you I'm not eager for the UHU version, but it can be made into a munitions carrier for the Nebelwefer variant. I think the old Italeri kit is pretty good except for the front tires. I don't have the armored Italeri version but it looks ok. It's hard to find alot of great reference photo's of the SWS. Hopefully now that their are more versions of the SWS being produced someone will put out a good reference book for this vehicle. Joe

Jeez, you've got better eyesight than me... This could, following thru with this idea, mean that MiniArt have signed a deal with LionArt/Great Wall to provide figures. Good deal for both. Interesting thought...

Is that SWS UHU documented anywhere as a paper panzer or is it simply a pure fictional extrapolation of the platform? J

Follow this link to the best information on the SWS I've found. LINK Joe

Great site thankjs for the link Joe Live link: http://www.pietvanhees.nl/sws/index.htm

these kits are all OEM by bronco models

So why isn't Bronco marketing them ?

Well, these kits seem awfully tasty indeed. I actually saw these pics a couple of days ago at Lionroar's Website while looking for some aftermarket sets. Did not really give them much thought then but now that I am looking at them closer they sure would make for very interesting subjects. If price is within acceptable range and overall accuracy is on the mark, then I am sure to get at least the cargo version of it. Thanks for posting this! Rob

Longtime reader - first post... Just a few tidbits of errata concerning sWS variants. Some may remember an odd early Roco Minitanks series that had four sWS versions- nebelwefer, 3.7 flak, searchlight, and radar dish. There might have been a munitions, too. I had no idea in my youth what they were, but I thought they looked cool. I had the flak and searchlight versions and painted and played the heck out of them. In the early 1990's, Model Graphix did several features on the sWS; one mastered by Tony Greenland and then the NKC resin kit. In 1994 they took the NKC kit and mounted a Gunze Sango (I believe) multimedia searchlight on it for a feature about 'what-if' German nachtjagers that really got me interested! Of course, not long after that came the Italeri kit. I have all of the elements for the searchlight vehicle now... AFV Uhu, Fruil tracks/sprockets, etc... (collected just a few months before this announcement... isn't that the way it always goes?) and am quite happy about that GW is producing these kits... especially if they are including the spoke wheels for the cargo version! Those are pretty expensive as resin bits from MR models right now. They also make a gorgeous engine for it... Personally, I think those early Roco items specifically inspired this particular version and I for one always thought the IR equipped sWS was tantalizingly plausible. I'm not one for counting rivets though, so it's all good to me! Bring on the sWS! AND, before they beat me too it, I thought a jury-rigged, up-armored (ala sdkfz 7) cargo/flak 43 version would look cool, too!