Nicely hi-jacked thread!

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If it was a similarly badly sculpted Tom-of-Finland type showing a big red star displayed in a similar insulting context ? Sure.

How would you feel about a figure of, say, an Argentinian soldier shouting "Malvinas Argentinas !" and trampling the Union Jack ?

My point is : it's my personal opinion that I should not try to incorporate such "messages" in the displaying of the miniatures that I paint. I think a miniature figure of a person should be more something "introspective", I mean, I try to look "in" to a figure of a personality, what kind of a man was he really ? .. Instead of using the miniature to put out negative "messages" towards certain "groups" of people.

Got to say guys , this little melee brightened up another very wet horrible stormy dreich night in Scotland.


There are a great many SS figures on the market I suppose what makes them so popular are the uniforms, not as symbols but they did look smart even on Herr Flick in allo allo, but not going to get into the rights or wrongs here it
is up to the individual to pick his subject matter, you could pick holes in just about every army through the ages.

Ron

You're absolutely right about that, the uniforms were designed by Hugo Boss the well known fashion designer. The success of Nazism was all about propaganda and keeping up appearances, they were exceptionally good at that. Good looks was part of the propaganda and the lies. It's fascinating how they could make a whole people swallow and believe their crap - fe. no German ever had a VW Beetle, and there was no Autobahn where the Beetles rode unless a stretch of road near the Wolfsburg factory. They showed images of mobile Panzer Divisionen to the people but a large part of their army still used horse drawn carts. And so on ...

Enjoy your rainy evening there in Scotland !

and also the talented architect of the plan for the deportation and transporting of 11 million Jews from every country in Europe to be worked to death or killed outright in concentration camps : see his role at the infamous Wannsee conference on that matter.

Steve, I propose to continue this discussion via personal message, if you wish to continue it. This forum is not for history lessons.

according to some sources, Heydrich was also the arch type of what is usually depicted by the Finnish illustrator "Tom-of-Finland". Do a google on Tom of Finland if you want to find out.

Wow, all that discussion for a painted figure!!!

Totally agree and it looks nowt like Anton Diffring!sorry monkey hanger humour could not resist

Pedro

Bringing the thread back to its origins I only can say that you did an extremely good job on the black colour of the uniform with the subtle highlighting and shading.

And after some hesitation I can only add that I wished that everyone would invest their time in trying to paint as good as you instead of boring us to death with political correct crap which is completely out of place here.

My two cents...

Johan

And that is why you are in charge ! A picture that says everything.

BTW - my two cents is that the base is too much but probably not mean spirited and the figure looks nothing like Heydrich (thankfully as the real guy was way scarier).

Colin