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Looks good to me. Enjoy your buildAfternoon
This is only my second plane build in 40 odd yrs, picked up the Revell Bf 109 G 10 kit for a songView attachment 331206
Built up the cockpit and got out the brush, not perfect but happy for my first real bash at a plane, just painted the moulded on seat belts
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Hope it meets approval LOL
thanks bob
The reason is mainly that in Germany, displaying a swastika in anything other than a historical or clearly anti-Nazi context is forbidden by law. Models and their box art are a bit tricky in this respect, but are likely to be seen as not a historical context. This has lead to a kind of gentleman’s agreement among the major European kit manufacturers to not include them on decal sheets at all, and others to supply them as pieces to be assembled by the modeller. This Fw 190 kit review provides a rationale:It’s something to do with banned images in Europe.....
[The kit under review] lacks swastikas, but as a result of subsequent correspondence with someone close to Airfix's decal development I now have a clearer understanding why they do not include graphics to produce this NAZI national insignia.
Essentially, as long as Revell and Italeri do not include swastikas in their kits, Airfix will not run any legal or market-exclusion risks by doing so. This is despite the fact that numerous other kit makers do provide for swastikas, including some from EU countries that experienced Nazi occupation. I see little point causing a flare up again by repeating my assertation. So instead I will say that it seems Airfix do have an excuse for not including the partial graphics to make swastikas in the decal sheet; albeit a rather timid one in my view.
HI John whats this about bein abducted by the wingies an a dangerous crowd of people we are rather timid an some times O T T LOLBob , well done , nice looking office .
We hear on the ground are a little concerned that you have been abducted by the wingies, a dangerous crowd of people who mutter about panel lines and lead in the nose !
John .
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