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A bit of an over-reaction?
Headhunter506
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 08:02 AM UTC
This is a hoot:

DONE WITH ARCHER TRANSFERS!!!!!!!!!!
ericadeane
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 08:13 AM UTC
Not very surprising in our current atmosphere of faux rages about every and anything.

1) dude needs to get a grip. it's a hobby

2) ISIS fans aren't building models

3) ISIS fans want bigger flags

4) dude needs to get a grip. it's a hobby
Headhunter506
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 08:18 AM UTC
No kidding. Nothing more insincere than an expression of faux indignation. Wanna bet he builds General Lee Chargers with the Stars and Bars on the roof?
exgrunt
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 08:18 AM UTC
So funny. It's cool to build all sorts of tanks that have the iron cross on them but ISIS is a no-go?

Last I checked, the Nazi's body count was significantly higher than ISIS. Guessing that the USSR has a higher body count as well but I see lots of T-whatevers being built. Heck, I'm building a Soviet AFV right now.

Disclaimer - I don't support ISIS, they are cockroaches.

But seriously guys....
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 08:38 AM UTC
So what would this be? "Wait a minute . . . Wasn't their latest "exciting" announcement a King Fvcking Tiger?!? Are you sh1tting me? It hasn't been a year since people responded to a the latest DML Tiger I announcement with "Yawn", and you are calling the release of new subjects "boring" but another King Tiger "exciting"??

This has to be a fvcking joke. It has to be."

Kylie
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 08:40 AM UTC
Are you sure that you posted in the correct thread, Kylie?
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 08:54 AM UTC
One is an over reaction and the other is a cry of frustration.

Personally I have wanted ISIS flags if only to model a burnt out wreck.

Wasn't there a similar reaction over recent Russian /Ukrainian affairs? Where recent happenings stirred so much passion that people read politics into a model building subject?

I know of at least one guy who did some excellent work of dubious taste with Waffen SS gloating over dead Allied troops. But still it's only a hobby. I judge something by the skills of the builder and care not a wit for their politics.

Until if course they see me looking at their piece and feel obliged to lecture me on their theories of history. No matter distasteful I find them, I am a good listener.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and however much I may disagree with it I will fight for their right to share it.
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 10:48 AM UTC
The last thing any one of us needs is another distraction to aid the polarization of one another...
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 11:03 AM UTC
Yah, I'm sure Woody will be missing his business...not. Oh, the outrage!

Jim
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 11:11 AM UTC
Yeah, I'd call that an overreaction. But one disgruntled customer a business does not make. And I'm sure that Archer has built a good enough reputation in the hobby and industry to survive losing this one customer and the few others be may influence.
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 11:13 AM UTC
One of the most silly things ive read lately. For god sakes its scale modelling!
sinistervampire319
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 11:52 AM UTC
When I saw this I thought one could build a diorama of a ISIS vehicle or whatever and have a LGB just before impact.
I never once thought, this is glorifying ISIS.
Scarred
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 12:11 PM UTC
Next time I build a model of the General Lee I'll do it politically correct with a rainbow flag instead of the stars and bars and it will be FABULOUS!!


EDIT: This is apparently lit his idiot fuse: http://www.archertransfers.com/AR35400.html
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 12:39 PM UTC

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EDIT: This is apparently lit his idiot fuse: http://www.archertransfers.com/AR35400.html




OH NOES TEH HORRERS!!!111!!!
Cantstopbuyingkits
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 03:26 PM UTC
I just looked at that decal sheet and now I guess I have cancer
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 03:59 PM UTC
Righteous indignation is cheap these days it seems...

Tojo72
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 03:59 PM UTC
Well,nowadays everyone is "outraged" over something,it's the in thing to do.
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#399
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 04:14 PM UTC
Social media makes it the quickest shortcut to your 15 minutes of Warholian fame.

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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 04:19 PM UTC

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Social media makes it the quickest shortcut to your 15 minutes of Warholian fame.





Ha!!!!! Isn't that the truth.

Best wishes,

Ian
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 04:23 PM UTC
I agree with Stephen....great to have them on burnt out bombed the [auto-censored] out of destroyed isis vehicles, throw in a couple of dead Verlinden terrorist figures as well. It's the same rant from me, don't like them...don't buy them...!
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 04:25 PM UTC

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Well,nowadays everyone is "outraged" over something,it's the in thing to do.



Agree... "Road Rage" is a classic example of this kind of thinking...
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 04:30 PM UTC
Sorry guys,
my arabic isn't good enough to read what it says on those flags.
... so I can't really contribute any intelligent on this matter.

Cheers
Christopher
SaxonTheShiba
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 04:37 PM UTC
Better hurry up and get one so I can do my Peshmerga HUMVEE diorama with Kurdish fighters standing over the corpses AND the flag.


Best wishes,


Ian
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 04:47 PM UTC
What a numpy, lives in his own perfect world I suppose.
SaxonTheShiba
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Posted: Friday, July 22, 2016 - 04:50 PM UTC

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Better hurry up and get one so I can do my Peshmerga HUMVEE diorama with Kurdish fighters standing over the corpses AND the flag.


Best wishes,


Ian



Wait....was this too harsh? SAFE SPACE ACTIVATION.



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