Description
Low Poly model of Norwegian WW2 Rikstanken Light Tank.
Model contains real details and proportions. 2048x2048 textures included: -Color maps -psd (AO, decals on separated layers, specular on Alpha channel) 2k,1k (wheels) -Normal maps 2k,1k Texture designed for scaling - great for mobile games.
Concurrently with the Swedish order Landsverk also received an order from Norway for a tank chassis, with delivery set at March 1937. The cost of the purchase was SEK 30,000, around the equivalent of US$3,000. After delivery delays the tank chassis was handed over to Norway.[1] The chassis was equipped after arrival with an improvised turret and ordinary iron plates for armour and was armed with a Colt M/29 heavy machine gun, making it Norway's first ever tank.[1][2][3] The tank was quickly dubbed Rikstanken (English: The National Tank) by the Norwegians.[1] Other nicknames were Kongstanken (English: The Royal Tank) and Norgestanken (English: The Norway Tank).[2][3] The name Norgestanken was a humorous invention,[2] playing on the fact that the word tanken in Norwegian means both the tank and the thought, making it a pun. The noun Norgestanken (English: the Norway thought) was an old nationalistic term for the idea of an independent Norway.[4] Kongstanken, as in the royal thought, signifies a grand and bold thought or an idealistic idea.[5]
