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[chbessexboy]

After an interval of about fifty years, I decided to resume building my 1/72 scale collection. After all, there is considerably more choice now and an opportunity to fill a few gaps.

Thus I purchased an Airfix Fieseler Storch.

The desert scheme on the box art is probably a step too far for my humble (or should that be Humbrol) talents, but the alternative Eastern Front option looks easier.

None of the images portrayed the Swastika - no surprise there - but what was is that swastika decals are not supplied. 

Really? 

Putting swastikas onto the tails of my Luftwaffe models didn't encourage me to become a neo-nazi fifty years ago. Are today's youths more easily influenced?

Sorry if this subject has already been thrashed out. I'm not sure if I'll bother to make the kit now. It'll just annoy me every time I look at it. 

[Dave Homewood]

The symbol was outlawed by European law many years ago, so they cannot supply the decals in that market. Usually an extra sheet is supplied in the kits that are sold outside of Europe, I believe. Write to Airfix and ask if they have the extra sheet, I hear they are very conscientious about replacing mossing kit parts.

[chbessexboy]

Thanks Dave. Will do.

[planecrazy]

Even some real ones fly with pseudo Swastikas.

[chbessexboy]

As a matter of interest, what happens to magazines in Europe that have pictures inside of warbirds with swastikas? Are they censored?

[chbessexboy]

Reply from Airfix:

"Dear Sir
Thank you for your e-mail.
Sorry A01047V does not come with Swastika decals.
Thank you
Regards
Airfix spares."

[nuuumannn]

Hi, take a look here:

hyperscale.com/2019/reviews/decals/x72306reviewbg_1.htm

These are probably going to be better quality than the airfix decals anyway. Alternatively, why not ask on this forum in the modelling section if anyone has any spare swastikas in their stash?

As for the swastika in public, it is a symbol of hate and cannot be displayed, with pretty good reason in Europe, I might add, but you can still see it in museums and so forth as a representation of history. This is the Luftwaffenmuseum at Gatow, Berlin and as you can see, the WW2 representative aircraft all are adorned with swastikas.

Europe 244

With nationalism on the rise in Europe, the current generation tends to forget about the atrocities committed there last Century.

[chbessexboy]

Thanks Nuuumannn. I'm pleased to see they are not trying to re-write history, or airbrush it.

Thanks for the link and good idea about the modelling forum. I'm going to see how steady my hand is first!

Cheers.

[nuuumannn]

No worries and good luck with the model. There once was a time when swastikas weren't seen in museums in Germany though. This is the Deutsches Museum's Me 262, noticeably devoid of a swastika. Dunno if its still the same, I took this going on ages ago now.

Me 262 Deutsches Museum

Of course, flying warbirds in Germany don't display the swastika.

[chbessexboy]

'Crisis' averted! An old Hasegawa Me262B kit has been acquired cheaply and its alternative markings will provide the missing decals. I will be more careful in my Luftwaffe purchases in future and avoid new Airfix.

[kiwirob]

It is over the top, I was in India in 2018, I took a lot of photos of the places I went, the swastika is common through the country, it appeared in several photos of temples and shrines. Some twit reported them, Facebook removed the photos.

[chbessexboy]

Dec 4, 2020 22:15:19 GMT 12 kiwirob said:

It is over the top, I was in India in 2018, I took a lot of photos of the places I went, the swastika is common through the country, it appeared in several photos of temples and shrines. Some twit reported them, Facebook removed the photos.

Madness. I'm not insensitive, and certainly not pro-Nazi, but there is such a thing as context.