I am someone who had become interested in the hobby of scale modelling after wondering about it for so long. But when miniature scale modelling started to become a major hobby in the 1950s after World War 2, how did former war veterens who had just returned home and where starting civillian life, react to miniature kit versions you could assemble, of the former enemies military vehicles they had bought fought and died against but years earlier?

I undestand as military vehicles got more bigger, developed, deadlier and dangerous, it was not just the enemy soldiers you feared & hated, but also their vehicles that supported them on the battlefield. Many vehicles in WW2 on both the Allied & the Axis sides where well known for their fearsome reputation such as the German Tiger Tank, Japanese Zero fighter plane (along with the kamikaze attacks), American Super-bombers, British Spitfires, that Russian six wheeled truck that fires rockets off its back that was known as the "Organ Of Death," and so on.

Veterans would have had time, and the rest of their civilian life afterward to reflect and deal with their horrific experiences that they experienced I am guessing, but how did it affect the military side of the scale modelling kit hobby? Let's say you're an American who fought in the Pacific or European theatre, and had to deal with said enemy vehicles you fought against. Your son, with his own allowance buys a model kit he likes the look off be it an airplane, tank or other vehicle the axis used your father fought against.

Your father finds out. Does he just accept its just a model and the past is the past, and the on has the freedom to model a former enemies military hardware? Does he react out of anger and demands to know why he didn't want to model the winning side, tells him to return it or though it out and that he fought for the freedom that they enjoy? What if the Axis won? Does your son buying the model trigger further nightmares and periods of PTSD?