One Nice Thing About Winter...

[Babelfish]

I think Steve is right...it's a few dead coyotes. Who cares. You want controversial? Here you go, dead Americans at Malmedy. Yeah, I went there; you guys wanna paint SS soldiers who've done far worse than any coyote, but it's okay to display them, right? But not a dead nuisance animal?

Not really a very good comparison and argument. Do you seriously believe that painting a scale model of an SS soldier means that the painter somehow endorses or condones or justifies the actions of the Waffen SS at places such as Malmedy (actually it was the Baugnez Crossroads and I've been there too .... but let's not split hairs ).

But hey - why stop at the SS?! I know they are the usual 'go-to' bad guys in threads/arguments such as this, but what about the Red Army? Does painting a Soviet soldier from the late war period mean that the painter is 'cool' with the mass rape and murder that those guys perpetrated as they "atrocetied" their way acorss East Prussia, Poland and eastern Germany in 1944/45? Or that aircraft modellers who build Avro Lancaster, B-17 or Heinkel 111 kits (let's not forget how many innocent civilians these machines killed in firestorms all over Europe) have no right to be upset at or disturbed by images of dead animals (or people for that matter)?

And I wonder how Mr. "I Love My AK47" would feel if (just for the sake of argument) his own dog slipped its leash, chased some sheep into a gulley and was shot by the farmer? Sheep are valuable livestock after all, sheep farmers generally regard "sheep worrying" by domestic dogs as a serious problem, and so the farmer is - surely - quite justified in regarding any dogs that pose a danger to his livestock as "vermin", no?

- Steve

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Sheep worrying I thought that was left to the Dynamic duo in Ayrshire

Almost forgot And aberdeen supporters

 

[Karlosfandango]

Still modelling figures though!!

 

[Helm]

Like Hemingway ? As in lie about your wounds and plagerise other peoples works before blowing your head off ? Possibly not the best example fellah

 

[Helm]

He was wounded that much is true but his tales of rescuing an Italian and RUNNING 100 yards carrying said Italian while he has a shattered knee not so much, I know what you're trying to say but you might have found a better example Tolkien springs to mind in the writers off hand