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Bad Taste |
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Against all the wishes of the marketing departments some of the boxarts are far from being « politically correct ». These are not the easier bloopers to spot (except one)but are certainly among the funniest... |
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Look at the lower right : at Airfix they don't hesitate to fire on ambulances... |
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And here we have the British Army in full retreat ! Yes : the truck with the gun comes from the right and right is where the rest of the battery is firing ! Airfix in the sixties ! |
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An horrifying sight : a Hellcat that tries to land on the carrier with bomb and drop tanks : a traitor-kamikaze ? And then if you look closely you see the carrier has an angled deck so ithis picture is also an anachronism...That's a problem with Lindberg Line : so many bloopers on the same picture , we don't know here to put them catalogue 1964/65) |
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The Ghost of the Neanderthal Man . Not a Doc Savage adventure but a somewhat spooky boxart by Glencoe for a kit originated by ITC... |
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« I am a Lindy Loony Repulsive» (by the Lindberg Line) . That's what the boxart itself claims ! |
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On the left you can see a Russian soldier surrendering … If you thought ESCI boxarts only promoted gallant and heroic fighting for the fun of it , that's not true …. |
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This Renwal missile kit shows an enemy bomber exploding over an American city . In 1959 this could have been the near future...fortunately it was not ... |
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Primary anti-communism ? The tanks being bombed by this SB-2 in this Frog boxart look like badly drawn T-62 (which add anachronism to bad taste !) |
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