Papercraft artillery show in London
The upcoming Paper Wars exhibit in London's Craze Gallery features giant, elaborate materiel and artillery made from paper, scissors and gluesticks.
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...[T]his exhibition, organized by PostlerFerguson, takes their paper AK-47 kit (first published in 2007) as a point of departure and asks participants to respond by altering the object. Featured artists include Ben Wilson, El Ultimo Grito, Oscar and Ewan, Pixelgarten, Hiroko Shiratori, Paul Wysocan, BASE23/DC|DE and more.
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During World War II, the Swedes made wooden copies of their fast firing Bofor anti aircraft guns and placed them around Stockholm. The Germans photographed them in aerial spying runs. The German Command thought they were real and concluded that the Swedes could wipe out a Luftwaffe attack.The Bofor guns were so fast that they were used against jets in the Korean war.
Didn't the german army just drive right into sweden and take over without a shot fired?
Anyway,I remember at a comix con in Glasgow in about 1991 a guy brought along a full scale sherman tank made entirey of cardboard.
He set it up on George Square but it seemd to cause a lot of bad feeling amongst the locals.
the last time there was a tank on George Square was when the city was put under Martial Law in the 1930s
The German army marched into Denmark without a shot, not Sweden. Sweden remained neutral during the war.
"made from paper, scissors and gluesticks."
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heh.