Most modelers want to build their models pretty historically accurate. If you've got a photo of something, you can be confident that you can model that and be correct. It's where you don't have any photo reference that you might have to use some artistic license. Now one can make the case that just because a photo doesn't exist showing a Tiger tank painted pink with purple polka dots that doesn't mean it never happened. In cases like that we use what we know historically and extrapolate from that what is possible. So for example there are photos of an American tank in the Pacific that has a very small Japanese tankette crosswise on the engine deck. That's historical fact, so it can be modeled. Where artistic, and historic, license comes in is extrapolating from that scene. The Poles had very small tankettes prior to the German invasion. What if a 1945 Polish unit came upon one of those small vehicles left rusting in a field from 1939? Couldn't they have done the same thing as the Americans in the PTO?

So all this begs the question, how much artistic license like this do you allow yourself?

Deja Vu! :-)

Vinnie