Agree with Frank here... So long as it was well crafted, you could get away with anything really. That said, to me less is more. For example, you mentioned the dead TC hanging out of a turret. This can be done with zero blood. All comes down to how the figure is positioned. Hanging or hunched, or at an unconfortable position of rest would show he is mortally wounded...
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Brad

Hey Everyone, This question has been milling around in my head for years. I read something on this years ago, and was wondering what peoples views are on this topic.

Where is line drawn between too much blood with dead/wounded bodies?? I.E. Missing arms, legs, half bodies, heads wounds??
Example: Figure hanging out a turret hatch on a tank, missing body parts.
How does one get the point across that he's no longer of this earth without grossing out the viewer?
Accurate/historic modelling, Is that the goal, or I'm I off base with this???

Things that make you go.........hmmmmm.
Any replies on this would be most helpful.
Thx.

Well, a model is first and foremost, a small work of art, and I suppose it all depends on what artistic effect you want to have on the viewer. Do you want them to be drawn in by the details of your little piece of history, or do you want them to recoil from it and walk away? Even during the war, the great military cartoonist Bill Mauldin had a policy against depicting corpses in his "Willie and Joe" drawings, even though he depicted the daily situations of common soldiers on the front line. It was always understood by the viewers that there were probably bodies "just out of shot," but even GI's in the field didn't want to dwell on that when reading "Stars and Stripes."