"Yes, and the list seems to be growing ever longer. And not just in our hobby. We seem to have entered a new age of puritanism, censorship and historical revisionism, with everyone having to be increasingly careful of what they say and how they say it, lest they incur the wrath of these (self-appointed) custodians of this new social morality and the Professionally Offended. I find that troubling.

Even more troubling is how as a society we've sleep-walked into it and allowed these finger-wagging, virtue-signalling fanatics and their views to go mainstream, instead of staying fenced off on the lunatic fringe where they belong. And I reckon that things are only going to get worse before they start to get better."

Wow! You really nailed it spot on, Steve!


Cheers!

Dolf

I think the way forward is to let the manufacturers know that we support them but if they cave to a few left loons, they risk losing that support.
Sooner or later, one of these snowflakes will attend a show and go off on someones display re: something that offends them...hope it is mine.
Here in the USA these people are a constant threat to our way of life...we cannot let it take root in our hobby.

Wonder what threats they leveled at Scale 75.

Probably a bunch of nonsense on Twatter.....eh Twitter.

Thank you for mentioning that detail, which no one else seems to have found.

This topic was raised in a toy soldier forum to which I belong, and someone noted that those plates resembled, or suggested, the NSDAP lapel pins that party members wore, and it was that which set the critics off, not the fact that the series depicted Luftwaffe pilots.

And this was also why my original comment mentions about seeing how the original Kickstarter was marketed.

The whole thing really was a mistake in the way things were portrayed and wording. But if you hadn't seen it you wouldn't know.

I think it’s also a matter of ‘lack of knowledge’. If someone is totally unaware of the hobby called figure painting I can actaully imagine someone frowning upon a finely painted ss soldier. One has to know the hobby and what kind of humble, quiet, peaceful (cliché alert) guy practices it before it can be given it’s harmless place.
This still doesn’t make it right to raise so many bells, but I wouldn’t only call it PC behaviour. Without any understanding of the hobby it can look odd.

Adrian

Just wait until the PC brigade realise how many of these dreaded models are produced in the dreaded PLASTIC, OK I know it will mainly affect the AFV/vehicle part of the hobby but sooner or later the hobby will get blamed in part for global pollution.

Supress reality and sooner or later reality will be denied.

Thank God (your choice) I'm getting older.

Geoff

The world seems to have become full of those who are enthusiastic about being offended on someone else's behalf. I have spent my working life working in a multi-ethnic environment, and have yet to find any non-Christians offended by Christmas, yet there are those who are keen to celebrate 'Winterfell' on their behalf instead.

As regards the figures, I do find it fascinating that the figures that sell most seem to be the losers, both Napoleonic and Nazis. It would be nice to see a series of Allied pilots and their tailfins, likewise the obsession with the Kreigsmarine U-boat captains as opposed to the very successful RN submarine branch captains &c.

Mike

P.S.

There's an article in this week's British Medical Journal regarding this.

You certainly couldn't show it at Herzog von Bayern Kev , well you could have but the swastikas would be covered up as that emblem is banned in Germany

What the hell is winter fell that's a new one on me . Anyway why don't we all go back to celebrating the winter Solstice and the return of the sun .makes more sense as at least we can celebrate something we can actually see and know exists .

"Winterfell". It's the castle and seat of the House Stark in the "Game of Thrones" saga.

I didn't see the series, but read the books.

Prost!
Brad

Sorry - I meant Winterval. I still haven't got over the dreadful ending to G.O.T.!

Mike

I was following this latest Kickstarter campaign from Scale 75 and was ready to, “pull the pin” on a pledge level when the sudden announcement of its cancelation was posted. (I pledged for their earlier campaigns for the U-boat and Chronicles of Run series also.) I was very disappointed that they did and the only thing that I observed from their presentation that I thought might upset the less figure painting knowledgeable crowd was the one page where they displayed Luftwaffe memorabilia along with the vignettes.
They had a Luftwaffe marked helmet, several air medals and a believe a ceremonial dagger as well. I could see people taking the wrong meaning from this and forcing Kickstarter to pull it. I most certainly agree with the majority here that this amounts to censorship of the remembrance of history that we as figure artists try to recreate.
I hope that Scale 75 markets these items on their site. The weathering sets they were adding to complete the vignettes I would hope would not offend anyone, but in this day and age who knows, maybe the earth tones were too, “racial”

tom

maybe the earth tones were too, “racial”

Your damn right they are "Brown earth "