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[maverick]

Hey,
I am 20 and from germany.
I was looking at 1 / 72 models, and so I came to this site.

The models are very very nice and realistic. I have never seen such a paper model. But i never had build a paper model too and now i fight with A 13 tank, hope i win. Very hard for a beginner

Can someone help me with the tires? I don't know how to make them.

Greetings Maverick.

[cliff button]

no problem... usually wheels are built like this;

after they are cut out, roll the long surface area around some curved implement (like a ball-point pen) and connect with glue at the tab. then you simply fold over the circular sides and secure them in place with glue at the edges.

paper models are a bit more challenging, but with practice, you'll be an old hand at it in no time.

cheers, c.b.

[maverick]

Thanks! I have to build the tank again so i can try it My tank looks like a destroyed one from WII

And wich glue is better? A glue stick or glue in a bottle or tube (don't know the name for it).

[1wolf]

i use Aleene's Original Tacky Glue and have seen in recommended on a few sites

[maverick]

Ok, i google for it. Maybe its avaible here

[cliff button]

we usually just use elmer's glue, but some prefer aleene's. i would not recommend glue sticks though. more info can be found here;

www.papertigerarmaments.com/Tips.html

[maverick]

Thanks

[1wolf]

i know that germany has really stiff anti nazi laws. would they limit your ability to make a scale german ww2 army? would they not let you use the germany forum skin?

[maverick]

good question that's right, very hard anti nazi laws. Here we can build ww2 models, but it's not allowed to use nazi symbols like the Hakenkreuz (swastika, english?) or the symbol of the Waffen SS.
Here is a picture from a model that my dad had built and the only symbol on the Opel Blitz is the company symbol.


A lot of peoples that build ww2 models doesn't put nazi symbols on model only for respect of the war.

Nobody likes Nazis here and nobody is proud about what Hitler do in germany. But maybe if you have no hair because you like it or don't know, you ill like cancerous (hope that's right?) a lot of peoples will call a "Nazi" or "Skinhead". Or you can get problems if you put the newest german flag on your window, again a lot of people will call you "Nazi" or "Skinhead".
It's very sad if you play an online game and a lot of people call you "Nazi" only because you say im from germany, but i am the 4. or 5. generation after the ww2 so i don't know what my great-grand-grand-grand-grandpa have do in the war.

Hope that answer is ok. If you have more question about german law or other things only ask

Can you use all the flags, symbols in the usa?

Ahh i forgot this. I don't realy know if i can use the skin. Because this flag is not allowed. But if nobody outside the house can see it, i can use it. Strange rules.

[1wolf]

;D thanks for your great answer. in the US the use of any symbols is not limited. a few times during trips through the desert during stops i have seen white power tattoos and its perfectly legal. if you seen any shows about the American prison system you are bound to see a number of Hakenkreuzs (is that how you make it plural?) are nazi tattoos also outlawed? what would be the punishment for a tattoo or any of the other offenses we have discussed? by ss symbol do you mean the lightning bolts? i cant even see the company symbol in the model haha. if you were to buing the newest PTA model the stuka:

www.papertigerarmaments.com/Ju87_Stuka.html

how would you be able to build it? since it has a hakenkreuz on it? would you pant over it?

[maverick]

That's good for people who build ww2 models. They can build it historic correct (hope it is right how i write it ) Yes I see a lot of shows about prisons in America and one documentation special about peoples that are in a Nazi group.
Hakenkreuze is the plural of Hakenkreuz. And yes, nazi tattoos are not allowed in germany, but Nazis (here we call them Neonazis) have Hakenkreuz tattoos, they don't respect the law and only make trouble. That's the reason why nobody want them.
And the SS symbol that i mean looks like this:
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/ /

So yes, thats the two lightning bolts. If I would build a model with this sign and show it in public i had to pay a lot of money to the police, but if I put this sign on a model plus the skull above it i will get in big trouble. Because that is the sign from the "Totenkopf SS". It is the company that worked in the concentration camps.

But if I build a model only for me and do not show it in the public and the public can't see it in my room, I can use every sign and symbol i want. So there will be no problem to build the Stuka, but I don't know if it allowed to make pictures and put it in this forum for example.

That is a cool thing that it is allowed in America to use this symbols. You all can build for example the Stuka like the real one with all the signs and symbols. But here we have use the "Eisernes Kreuz" that every modern german tank have and it is not historic correct if a Stuka have an modern sign on it.

[Pouncing Tiger]

Your dad is very good at modeling too. =)

[cliff button]

our more recent German aircraft are available without the swastikas. this is usually by request for most, but we try to offer the options for German customers. many will notice the swastikas on our planes as being correct on the left side, bur reversed on the right side...

[1wolf]

May 24, 2011 19:26:20 GMT -5 cliff button said:

our more recent German aircraft are available without the swastikas. this is usually by request for most, but we try to offer the options for German customers. many will notice the swastikas on our planes as being correct on the left side, bur reversed on the right side...

is it being reversed on the right side not accurate? what was the reason?

[1wolf]

very interesting. i understand why those law were enacted in germany but im sure that many would be unhappy if the US tried to do the same.

would you put this:

or this:

on your models?