MODELMAKiNG & HiSTORY: Airfix Panther, Arno Breker, Etc.

Another Panther build is imminent.

I got another Airfix 1/76 Panther Tank model, either for Xmas or – I think the latter – my birthday. I was looking at wrecked Panther photos, thinking I might do a wee diorama.

Maybe something like this?

That lead me to the story of Klaus-Dieter Flick’s actual Panther, which was the cause of a political kerfuffle some years back. And that in turn lead me to Arno Breker

Breker sculpts Speer as The Mekon.

As well as collecting weaponry, Flick also owned originals or copies of Nazi-era Breker sculptures. I find all this kind of thing quite interesting. For example, I really like the TV series Selling Hitler, about the faked Hitler diaries…

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