Scale model bras & panties!
OK, let me explain this, sorta - my Weird Hobby is building scale models. Cars, planes, military vehicles and figures, etc. etc.
Recently I went into my local hobby shop and saw the model kit below.
This may be the absolute coolest scale model kit ever. I had to have it! Yes, it comes complete with the clothesline and 1/35 SCALE LINGERIE! Also the samovar, table and record player...complete with the record as a separate part.
BTW, "1/35 scale" means each of the figures is about as tall as one of your longer fingers.
The scene depicted by the model is taken from a famous and popular 1972 Russian movie, At Dawn It's Quiet Here. (The model manufacturer, ICM, is located in the Ukraine.)
The movie is about a crusty Sergeant-Major (the guy on the boxtop) who commands an anti-aircraft unit near Leningrad in WWII.
He gets tired of dealing with drunks, womanizers, goof-offs and trouble-makers in his unit, and demands replacements from higher headquarters.
"No drunk macho troublemakers? OK, no problem, Sarge!" Headquarters send him a group of young women fresh out of training, some of them still teen-agers. Later in the movie the young women tangle with an elite Nazi unit sent to blow up the Murmansk railroad.
In the box art, a female NCO is patiently listening to the Sergeant-Major rant about their Unmentionables on the clothes-line. The young woman sitting at the table with a pensive expression is writing in her diary.
The subject of women serving in WWII is certainly a rich, varied and often neglected topic. Especially in Russia, where women often fought on the front lines as snipers, fighter pilots, and medics. I hope to see more scale models dealing with that subject...with or without lingerie!
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