Posted by Carlos on 28 Nov 2021, 00:15
Thanks by te coments Santi!
Ian, I want to apologize for using "English" for the British. It is a common mistake of Argentina and I think that for all Latin America to call all the English Brits. My mistake, I apologize for that.
In Argentina we love the Scots, Irish and Welsh a lot, since we had a great immigration of them here. In Patagonia there is a province that is entirely Welsh. Irish and Scottish are everywhere, one of my best friends from high school was named "McDonald" and in his family they did not speak a word of English but they kept the "Gaelic" (my friend's older brother was also a Malvinas/Falklands veteran, It is interesting that there was Scottish ancestry on both sides of the lines, as I recall, he was in two sisters, with the 4th infantry), so please do not be offended.
As I said before, I am not an expert on the Falklands, and this is my first diorama about the war. I doesn't like that war. It happens that I am from the northeast of Argentina and when the war I was 16, most of the soldiers who went there were 18 or 19 so I met many, we had many veterans (only in my town 15, we have too many, and it is a small town), It happens that when we have to go to the conscription, except in the case that you got the "number" for the navy or air force, or that they selected us for the special forces (which was my case and was sent with the bush hunters in the Jungle brigade, or precisely the case of my friend Macdonald who told you before he was sent with the paratroopers to the brigade in Cordoba, very far from home) the boys from my area served in the nearest unit, and in mo provincie there where teh "Correntino Regiments" (regiments that remained in Corrientes province, in the times of conscription teher where four or five) and all Corrientes regiments were sent to the Falklands. When the veterans came back, to my town, they said "Galtieri and Tatcher wanted to have sex, they needed condoms and there we were", this was the way the boys from Argentina, from my region (I can't speak for others from other regions) thought, so I developed a frank aversion to that war.
Later in university I met other veterans, they were not satisfied with having fought that war. The Argentine soldiers were not professionals, they fought "for the country", and it turns out that this was not true, they did not fight for the country, they fought for the political ambition of a drunken dictator called Galtieri and they felt betrayed.
So after listening to the veterans I have no sympathy for that war. I don't know much about Malvinas / Falklands, I only found those figures, they seemed good to me and I was inspired by some photos that I downloaded from the internet. I don't know if they are "strictly historical", I just wanted to use those figures.
Now Im waiting a kit of WWI from the same manufacturer, but I know a little more about that war.