Spanish Civil War Group Build?

i might be interested as gives me a chance to use 2 airfix 1/600 county class cruisers rebuilt into the canarias & belearas.

i am interested. i have a PZ-1A waiting to be built even though i do more modern stuff. tink i have a JU-86 in the "i'll never build" stash.

GMorrison

The challenge will be that this was a very political war. Having lived in Barcelona for a while, my observation is that Spain is one of many countries that should really be about three.

That being said, and I am whole heartedly Republican sympathetic in this one, very very interesting if folks contribute all of the history they can muster behind the story of their builds.

My sentiments would be wholeheartedly Republican but for the fact that at the point I am in the "story" - the fall of Bilbao in late 1937, the Republican cause appears to be a means for the Russians to introduce Soviet-style communism into Spain. My speculation is that had the Republicans won, Spain would have become a communist country run from afar by Stalin.

But, yeah, the Basques got screwed.

The challenge will be that this was a very political war. Having lived in Barcelona for a while, my observation is that Spain is one of many countries that should really be about three.

That being said, and I am whole heartedly Republican sympathetic in this one, very very interesting if folks contribute all of the history they can muster behind the story of their builds.

I kind of burned out on group builds, but this is a great idea for one.

It just happens that I am reading the same book right now.

Tojo72

I really liked that book myself,a good followup that I could recommend is The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston.The brutality on each side was unbelievable.

As for the build,my stash is bare of anything that will fit in and I really don't need to buy more.But we will see.

I will check out that book. I'm constantly amazed (appalled?) at the brutality shown by both sides in this war. It strikes me as one in which there really was no side you could consider "the good guys" - it was two failed ideologies duking it out as a prelude to WWII.

Given your start date, its a GB i have not seen before and it gives me an excuse to build a Stuka, count me in.

I really liked that book myself,a good followup that I could recommend is The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston.The brutality on each side was unbelievable.

As for the build,my stash is bare of anything that will fit in and I really don't need to buy more.But we will see.

This is a nice, fresh idea, and I certainly would be interested in participating in it.

I certainly would be interested. A little hard as there's not much in the way of Naval, AFAIK. Good to plan far enough out.