I was building a model of a Messerschmitt Bf1009D which, for the kit edition I found, was marked as one of the craft affiliated with the Spanish Civil War.
While applying the decals, I was most struck by this marking, a seemingly innocuous cartoon of a Mickey Mouse type figure. I have absolutely no knowledge of its meaning or what it represented to the forces that used it beyond being just a mascot of choice for the pilot. But it really got me thinking about how such a cartoon form of painting struck a chord with me to the approach Picasso would later use to depict the atrocities in his painting of Guernica.
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