A message of support for Roden in the Ukraine

[Pup7309]

Hi
I was wondering about this and then saw the post.
Best wishes to Vlad and everyone there.
It’s hard to believe.
Cheers, Daz

[Todd Holaday]

Amen.  Keeping them all in my prayers.

[Borsos]

War is on. What a nightmare.

[rhwinter]

😢😡

[PrzemoL]

Horrors of 20th century are back. Oh God, save us.

[Manni]

Terrible times. I wish we could just live together on this wonderful, heavenly planet. Climate change, wars, covid. My little daughter only experiences disasters. I hope we don't reach the point where I regret bringing a child into this world.
Manni

[Alexis]

I'm very sad 


Alexis

[jamieg]

"Never again" turns into "Just wait for the next two bit conqueror".

[lcarroll]

   A terrible day for everyone and especially for those suffering the direct effects. Just a caution and reminder Folks, let's leave personalities and politics out of our appropriate and genuine expressions of concern and support. The world and humankind are not better for this...... it's a very sad day.
Lance

[Rookie]

My heart goes out to the people of the Ukraine and everybody affected by the violence.

"You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth"

        -Winston Churchill -

[WD]

I just got the latest Cher Ami newsletter. Contained therein was the following news:

"It is very unlikely that any products will be coming from Ukraine in the
foreseeable future. Here’s what we do know at the moment:
News from Mini-Art is that the company owner Alina, her father Alex and
their family fled to Poland a few days before the invasion of Russia. At the
moment they are very busy delivering aid to the Polish/Ukrainian border. They
pick up refugees and provide shelter in Poland for them. In addition, they have
arranged a warehouse and collect relief supplies. The MiniArt factory has been
abandoned
As of March 4th ICM were still posting pro-Ukrainian messages on Facebook.
The company had three new sets of armoured WWI figures scheduled for this
year including German, Italian and US sets
There has not been much news from Roden. They reported being hacked early
in the invasion and have today updated their profile on Facebook. Roden were
due to release a late version of their 1/32 scale Spad kit and there were rumours
of a Sopwith Strutter and Avro 504 this year.
Our thoughts are with all of those diectly affected by the Russian invasion."

 

WD

[KiwiZac]

Thanks for sharing that, WD. Sometimes the old saying "no news is good news" is not necessarily true.

MikroMir's Facebook page has also been steadily posting nothing but war-related material, so at least we know whomever runs their social media is okay.

[jeroen_R90S]

Very sad times indeed
I really feel sad for all those affected... one of the hardest things to do (although that is all relative, being a somewhat safe 1000km away from Ukraine) is to keep having to answer my kids questions as to why one country would to this to another. They're 9 and 7 now.

On a note regarding Roden, I read on The Modelling News that (one of) their box artists was killed. (Valery Grygorenko) He did some of those amazing and, for model kits, quite artistic paintings like the jumping Opel Blitz being chased by a P-40 in the desert, the 1/48 Grumman OV-1 with a big Budda, etc etc.
 
He also did the gorgeous 1/72 Curtiss H-16 boxart, one of my favourite boxarts ever.

The painting itself is gorgeous, but somehow my eye is always attracted to the odd stuff he put in paintings, like the balloons in this case.

Sad times indeed, and it takes the joy of modelling away for me

Jeroen

[PrzemoL]

   Horrors of this invasion will be in our minds for long, I am sure. And no one knows, how much more is to come...
And, Jeroen, as for your kids' question, the answer is apparently simple for anyone following history of this region of the world. Yet, I will not elaborate, because then my post would be removed at once...

[Bluesfan]

Oh no... Truly shocked to hear that about Valery. I always really enjoyed his work, and the box art you showed us there was indeed one of my favourites too. As you say, he would usually put in some funny small details in his paintings. I got used to looking out for his logo on the box art - a silhouette of an Aichi 'Val' of course.
That H-16 artwork had a lot to do with my wanting to build that kit, so here's a small tribute attached.
Sympathies for his family, and so many others.

Mark