{"id":25884,"date":"2025-01-11T15:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T15:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25884"},"modified":"2025-01-11T22:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T22:34:47","slug":"modelmaking-history-airfix-panther-arno-breker-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25884","title":{"rendered":"MODELMAKiNG &amp; HiSTORY: Airfix Panther, Arno Breker, Etc."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"644\" height=\"403\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2859-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25887\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2859-1.jpg 644w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2859-1-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Another Panther build is imminent.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I got another Airfix 1\/76 Panther Tank model, either for Xmas or &#8211; I think the latter &#8211; my birthday. I was looking at wrecked Panther photos, thinking I might do a wee diorama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2851-1024x528.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25889\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2851-1024x528.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2851-300x155.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2851-768x396.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2851.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maybe something like this?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That lead me to the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Klaus-Dieter_Flick\">Klaus-Dieter Flick<\/a>\u2019s <em>actual<\/em> Panther, which was the cause of a political kerfuffle some years back. And that in turn lead me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signandsight.com\/features\/884.html\">Arno Breker<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"970\" height=\"698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2857-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25885\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2857-1.jpg 970w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2857-1-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2857-1-768x553.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Breker sculpts Speer as The Mekon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <em>Selling Hitler<\/em>, about the faked Hitler diaries\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got another Airfix 1\/76 Panther Tank model, either for Xmas or &#8211; I think the latter &#8211; my birthday. I was looking at wrecked Panther photos, thinking I might do a wee diorama. That lead me to the story of Klaus-Dieter Flick\u2019s actual Panther, which was the cause of a political kerfuffle some years &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MODELMAKiNG &amp; HiSTORY: Airfix Panther, Arno Breker, Etc.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6Ju","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25884"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25895,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25884\/revisions\/25895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}