You may find this of interest. It's an actual East German communist propaganda film attempting to paint the scale modeling industry as fascist war-mongerers.A bit of backstory on myself, I'm a military brat, the son of a career enlisted avionics technician, consequently I grew up around fast jet airplanes. The military air bases were my hometown, and the jet fighters that flew from them caught my imagination.
As a young'n, I bought American manufactured model kits, slapping them together as kids do. As a teen, I discovered model clubs and adults who did a much more convincing job. Times changed and US kit makers gave way to Japanese kits. In the 80s, Korean kits became a thing. In the late 90s and early 2000s, Chinese kit were all the rage, although purists complained about accuracy issues.
Most recently, it's been former eastern bloc Warsaw Pact countries like Czechoslovakia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
It's not earth-shattering to most, but it's something I enjoy, just like some guys make intricate fly fishing lures, or tinker in a wood shop, I build plastic models.
A bit of backstory on myself, I'm a military brat, the son of a career enlisted avionics technician, consequently I grew up around fast jet airplanes. The military air bases were my hometown, and the jet fighters that flew from them caught my imagination.Is there nothing the left won't do to throw a wet blanket on all things fun?
Statistics: Posted by Colonel Obyezyana — 5/10/2024, 9:39 pm