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Model Forum / General / Models / August 2007Brickmania Lego kits... interesting
This is a very interesting site. Looks like they need more production facilities. http://www.brickmania.com/ Incredible ships! > This is a very interesting site. Looks like they need more production > facilities. > > http://www.brickmania.com/ > This is a very interesting site. Looks like they need more production > facilities. > > http://www.brickmania.com/ > I don't know how the Danes would react to their Legos being used to building Nazi tanks. I talked to a Dane whose parents were in Copenhagen during the occupation, and they strung up collaborators from the lampposts in the city after the country was liberated. Pat Being a Dane, I don't really care. WW II happened more than 50 years ago and LEGO's are just toys. As to stringing up collaborators, there was some that vere real, but also some used the chance to settle an old score. Justice should never be left to a mob, no matter how just the cause seems at the time.  SignatureClaus Gustafsen Strandby Denmark mail me at claus@gustafsen.nu See my modeling at www.gustafsen.nu >> This is a very interesting site. Looks like they need more production >> facilities. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Pat >> This is a very interesting site. Looks like they need more production >> facilities. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I don't know how the Danes would react to their Legos being used to > building Nazi tanks. The founder of Lego will be spinning in his grave as he was lifelong pacifist who objected to any kind of war toy. > I talked to a Dane whose parents were in Copenhagen during the occupation, > and they strung up collaborators from the lampposts in the city after the > country was liberated. A lot of european countries were occupied, it doesn't stop them from producing models of Nazi tanks. (kim) on 8/7/2007 5:52 PM kim said the following: > >> [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > (kim) I don't understand some of the European country's ban on swastikas. It's almost like the Nazi book burnings. SignatureBill In Hamptonburgh, NY To email, remove the double zeroes after @ > I don't understand some of the European country's ban on swastikas. > It's almost like the Nazi book burnings. It's still a very controversial subject. Does leaving the swastika off the decal sheets for German WW II aircraft constitute censorship, or denial of what happened? Huma Models of Germany never did figure out how to deal with the problem on their models of oddball German secret and prototype aircraft designs. They came up with around three different ways of making a decal or decals that could be either modified via cutting with a X-acto knife into a swastika, or a swastika that could be made by joining separate decals together. Even then though, they aways stuck these decals down at one end of the decal sheet separated from the others by quite a space, so they could be quickly cut off the decal sheet at the factory if there was any political trouble about them. Swastikas vanished from American model kits of Luftwaffe aircraft in the late 1960's-early 1970's IIRC. To me at least, it seems that banning the marking probably adds to its mystique and power. Pat on 8/8/2007 12:29 AM Pat Flannery said the following: >> I don't understand some of the European country's ban on swastikas. >> It's almost like the Nazi book burnings. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Pat Models should be exempt for that censorship. That way, if the neo Nazis want to hold a demonstration, they would have to hold up model airplanes. SignatureBill In Hamptonburgh, NY To email, remove the double zeroes after @ > Models should be exempt for that censorship. That way, if the neo > Nazis want to hold a demonstration, they would have to hold up model > airplanes. The story of the Nazi dog: http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20040202/018731.html The dog was, almost inevitably, a German Shepard. :-) Pat > on 8/7/2007 5:52 PM kim said the following: > > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > In Hamptonburgh, NY > To email, remove the double zeroes after @ Bill, I agree with you, however, it's like gun control here in the US. You don't think that the 2nd Amendment should not be messed around with until one of your family members gets shot. Then you want every gun in the US confiscated and people fined up the wazu(spelling?) just for looking at a gun (Brady Bill for example). Don't get me wrong, I am not against guns - on the contrary, I believe that everyone should own several - for whatever reason. If you don't like them, then be it, but don't tell everyone else not to have one. My 2 cents. Ray Austin, TX === on 8/10/2007 12:06 PM Ray S. & Nayda Katzaman said the following: > >> on 8/7/2007 5:52 PM kim said the following: [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > Austin, TX > === I wore a gun on my hip for 38 years. To me, it was like a carpenter wearing a hammer on his belt all the time, in case he saw a nail that had to be driven home. It was just another hardly used heavy tool. I don't carry one anymore. I have 4 handguns in the safe at my previous workplace. They have been there for 6 years. But, I don't see the gun control connection to a Nazi symbol, which cannot physically hurt anyone. SignatureBill In Hamptonburgh, NY To email, remove the double zeroes after @ > > Bill, I agree with you, however, it's like gun control here in the US. You don't > > think that the 2nd Amendment should not be messed around with until one of your [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > In Hamptonburgh, NY > To email, remove the double zeroes after @ But indeed there is a connection. It is control. In Europe, the control is to eliminate the Nazi symbols so no one will have their feelings hurt or be offended. In the US it is also control. Those who believe that no one should own a gun and only the government has the right to bear arms. Again, the connection is control. Ray Austin, TX === >>> This is a very interesting site. Looks like they need more production >>> facilities. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >(kim) never forgive and never forget. but take their money! how many mercedes are there in isreal? (a lot.) > In article <sIydnT1JuoaqdCXbRVnyiwA@giganews.com>, "kim" > <ntscuser@aol.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > never forgive and never forget. but take their money! > how many mercedes are there in isreal? (a lot.) I think that when all those mercs are paid for, the money WENT TO Germany, not FROM. SignatureCheers, Bert-Jan >> never forgive and never forget. but take their money! >> how many mercedes are there in isreal? (a lot.) [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Germany, not FROM. > Sarah Silverman has a comedy sketch about Jews driving German-made cars in her "Jesus is Magic" video. You think that's odd...one of our local surplus stores had surplus Israeli gas masks for sale a couple of decades ago. The gas masks were made in West Germany. :-) Pat >>> never forgive and never forget. but take their money! >>> how many mercedes are there in isreal? (a lot.) [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Pat wow, smacked across the face with the cold dead fish of a cliche! ouch! the irony is deafening. >> In article <sIydnT1JuoaqdCXbRVnyiwA@giganews.com>, "kim" >> <ntscuser@aol.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >I think that when all those mercs are paid for, the money WENT TO >Germany, not FROM. you missed the point. on 8/8/2007 9:10 AM someone@some.domain said the following: > >> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > how many mercedes are there in isreal? (a lot.) > The first Israeli airforce had BF-109s SignatureBill In Hamptonburgh, NY To email, remove the double zeroes after @ > The first Israeli airforce had BF-109s They were Czech-built copies with new engines called S-199's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avia_S-199 Pat > > The first Israeli airforce had BF-109s > > They were Czech-built copies with new engines called S-199's: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avia_S-199 > > Pat As recall, those engines were Junkers copies. Still, I always found it ironic they were flying German designs. Now for something else weird; The French flew Hayabusas with tricoleur roundels in Indochina right after the War. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. > As recall, those engines were Junkers copies. Still, I always found it > ironic they were flying German designs. > That hit me as very ironic also; the motors and props were off of He-111 bombers. The thing was supposed to be an absolute terror to try and take off or land; with a real potential to dig its wingtip into the ground due to torque. > Now for something else weird; The French flew Hayabusas with tricoleur > roundels in Indochina right after the War. > Wait till you see this odd little thing: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2l4tm_kato-hayabusa-fighter-wing_music The French apparently crashed quite a few of them, which the Japanese couldn't understand, as they found it a very easy aircraft to fly, with really nice handling and great maneuverability. Pat >on 8/8/2007 9:10 AM someone@some.domain said the following: >> In article <sIydnT1JuoaqdCXbRVnyiwA@giganews.com>, "kim" <ntscuser@aol.com> [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> >The first Israeli airforce had BF-109s yeah, great colors schemes and decals! > This is a very interesting site. Looks like they need more production > facilities. > > http://www.brickmania.com/ THis one is also pretty impressive (I've seen it in-person): http://www.wmur.com/news/10424456/detail.html?subid=22101161&qs=1;bp=t http://www.see-sciencecenter.org/millyard/ Peteski > > This is a very interesting site. Looks like they need more production > > facilities. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Peteski Do they make any PE for Lego and how would you patch all those seams and sink marks. |
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