I always find this strange, Stalin's forces murdered more people, at least 50 million before and during the war than the Germans, and the RED star is not outlawed.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:
The reasons for both are rather complex, but it pretty much boils down to two things: the Germans have had it well and truly peppered into them after 1945 that Nazism = BAD. On the other hand, in the former Soviet Union, Stalin is still seen as a hero to varying degrees (ranging more or less, from “not too bad a guy” to “best leader Russia ever had”). Saying bad things about Stalin in Russia is likely to get a lot of people up in arms against you, whereas in Germany you’ll provoke a similar reaction by saying good things about Hitler (in both cases: even if they’re true, because people are generally fairly ignorant of history but know what they like and don’t like).I always find this strange, Stalin's forces murdered more people, at least 50 million before and during the war than the Germans, and the RED star is not outlawed.
Where as the swastika caused more outrage.
serves to further civil enlightenment, to avert unconstitutional aims, to promote art or science, research or teaching, reporting about current historical events or similar purposes.
The problem isn’t the symbol itself, the problem is what it stands for: that a given symbol has been used for a long time says nothing about how people perceive it.For the Hindus and Buddhists in India and other Asian countries, the swastika was an important symbol for many thousands of years
Actually, they should probably be RLM 02 Grau, says a little quick research.The wheel wells should be aluminium
If you have it, why not, eh? BTW, the wheel hubs should be very dark grey, in case the instructions say something else there too.As this is a 'practice' build i have not been too fussy ref the actual colours so just followed the plans. As i hopefully improve i will then look at the rlm colours for acuracy
Had a look and i have got rlm o2 in a vallejo luftwaffe paint set, so will use that instead.
I’m guessing Bob picked a 109 because it’s about as angular as a StuG. Should have gone for an early variant though, with the conical spinnerit even looks like a plane already.
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