"What's all this then?" I hear you cry. Or not. Maybe you are not so easily impressed. Particularly by someone's rather geeky hobbies. That's right, readership, I am a dedicated scale modeler. No, not the typical overweight middle aged guy who hides in his basement (er, "studio") all day, painting historical models (which is code for sexy misogynist Anime figures/ 3D porn). Being a trained historian (such as it is), I like to flesh out my history in three dimensions. And make cool Nazi tanks and planes. It's true, I stick to German subjects from the Second World War. Not because I have any affinity with those jerks, but because they made the coolest stuff. Period. No matter what you make on the Allied side, it's going to be painted olive drab. German stuff had neato sprayed camo with all the colours of the Nazi rainbow that are an airbrush-er's delight. Plus their tanks and planes were scientifically proven to be wicked cool, in a famous study of 8 year old males. By famous I mean unknown. By scientific I mean entirely made up. By 8 year old males I mean the shrill voices in my head.
Anyway, that's what I do. It's what I have always done, since I was about 10-11 years old. I never felt the need to justify it, but as my girlfriend (yes, I have one of those) pointed out, what would people think when they walk into my apartment and see a sea of balkenkreuz and swastikas on my various projects? Oddly I never thought about it, because we (modelers) tend to over represent German subjects as a rule, so I never felt I was an odd one out for my interest.
Anyway, here is my latest creation. It's a late-war Luftwaffe pilot with his steed, a Messerschmitt BF109G. Essentially I built the plane as an elaborate base for the figure, which I bought before I got the kit for the plane. For those unfamiliar with scales, 1/32 is big-ass for a plane. The figure is around 5.5 cm tall.
I'll post new projects as I complete them.
I.A.
