Slitherine

Here is package #33.

Hello Phcas,

quick note: Due to legal restrictions here in Germany, I’m not able to create images with certain historical symbols (This is only about the swastika.) using AI. The tools automatically block such content.

However, I can still provide you with accurately reconstructed and colorized vehicles — just without those symbols.

How would you prefer to proceed? Should I send you the finished images without markings, or would you rather receive the base versions so you can handle the final edits yourself

Also, just to let you know: yesterday it still worked to some extent with a bit of effort, but as of today the AI is consistently blocking this functionality or depiction.

Best regards Tobi

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 10:27 am Hello Phcas,

quick note: Due to legal restrictions here in Germany, I’m not able to create images with certain historical symbols (This is only about the swastika.) using AI. The tools automatically block such content.

However, I can still provide you with accurately reconstructed and colorized vehicles — just without those symbols.

How would you prefer to proceed? Should I send you the finished images without markings, or would you rather receive the base versions so you can handle the final edits yourself

Also, just to let you know: yesterday it still worked to some extent with a bit of effort, but as of today the AI is consistently blocking this functionality or depiction.

Best regards Tobi

rare-photo-of-the-bt-42-while-it-was-still-in-service-v0-d8myhb1ewm661.pngx32050_122mm_M1938.png

Has censorship and the like already reached AI? It’s all because, my friend, you trust Skynet far too much ))) Anyway, these are Finnish trophies, and the swastika on them should be blue )))

The BT-42 (Finnish: BT-42) was a self-propelled artillery unit (SPG) developed in Finland based on captured Soviet BT-7 tanks. The first vehicles were ready in September 1942, and between 1942 and 1943, Finnish industry converted a total of 18 tanks

https://en.topwar.ru/109944-samohodnye- ... bt-42.html



https://www.mediafire.com/file/7j8jaa02 ... i.zip/file

Has censorship and the like already reached AI? It’s all because, my friend, you trust Skynet far too much ))) Anyway, these are Finnish trophies, and the swastika on them should be blue )))


I don't trust it, but I use the possibilities of AI as best I can.

Just out of curiosity — are Nazi symbols or related markings actually allowed in Russia and Uzbekistan?

Anyway, here is package #34. I'll try to finish another package by this evening if I can.

Heyx Tobi,

in 2018 was a change of this legal registration so not sure if Sozialadäquanzklausel (§ 86a Abs. 3 StGB) cover this situation.

In Short for the rest of you nazi symbols in games may be shown only if the context clearly serves one of the following purposes:
Art
Science
Civic education
Depiction of current or historical events <-- in my opinion this would be given but i understood skynet provider as well. I understand the providers of AI products, because in Germany they could probably be held liable if people use or misuse the AI to generate prohibited symbols.

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 11:51 am
Has censorship and the like already reached AI? It’s all because, my friend, you trust Skynet far too much ))) Anyway, these are Finnish trophies, and the swastika on them should be blue )))


I don't trust it, but I use the possibilities of AI as best I can.

Just out of curiosity — are Nazi symbols or related markings actually allowed in Russia and Uzbekistan?

My friend, the swastika is a symbol of division. But we certainly don’t get worked up if we see it in museums, films or other forms of art! It’s history, and there’s no escaping it. Well, if you were to walk around Uzbekistan waving a Nazi flag, you’d probably end up in a mental institution! As far as I know, Hitler’s swastika is banned in Russia, but there are still various runes
https://yandex.uz/images/search?lr=1033 ... 0регистане

But I do like Western tolerance and hypocrisy ) It hasn’t even been 100 years since there were separate toilets and buses for people of colour, and people were sent to prison for homosexuality – same-sex marriages weren’t acceptable at all ) But now you’ve suddenly come up with 33 genders, and you’re covering up swastikas wherever you can – it’s getting beyond belief. Let me be a barbarian and a savage, but I don’t want my sons to live with men! I hope this doesn’t cause a stir or spark a debate here, but at least I’m being honest!



I really can’t stand double standards, but alas, the world is unfair )

This is a rally of Hitler’s supporters in 1937. No other rally in human history has ever drawn such a large crowd. Eight years later (in 1945), they would claim they had never supported Hitler’s ideas.

I think we’re drifting into rather boring political discussions here
The swastika belongs in a historical context — in a museum, if you will — and helps to understand or represent that period.
Laws, whether in Germany or Uzbekistan, regulate how it is handled — and I simply follow those rules.
Let’s get back to focusing on the mod; anything else just takes us off topic.

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 1:56 pm I think we’re drifting into rather boring political discussions here
The swastika belongs in a historical context — in a museum, if you will — and helps to understand or represent that period.
Laws, whether in Germany or Uzbekistan, regulate how it is handled — and I simply follow those rules.
Let’s get back to focusing on the mod; anything else just takes us off topic.

I’m all for it! But I’m in favour of historically accurate photos in fashion! I just hope we won’t have to gouge our eyes out, because fashion is fickle, whereas real history isn’t!

If there is a swastika in a photo or document, erasing it means you no longer have an authentic copy! I am certainly no supporter of Nazis, fascists or the like, but there is such a thing as historical accuracy and reality!

I personally also prefer the originals. I know that black-and-white images can be colorized using well-known software, but as far as I’m aware, it still requires a significant amount of manual post-processing — and to be honest, I don’t really have the time or motivation for that.
That’s why I would suggest providing the original B/W images that cannot be authentically colorized with AI(Theme: Swastika), so the author or any other interested person can handle the final editing themselves.

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 1:56 pm I think we’re drifting into rather boring political discussions here

+1

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 2:43 pm I personally also prefer the originals. I know that black-and-white images can be colorized using well-known software, but as far as I’m aware, it still requires a significant amount of manual post-processing — and to be honest, I don’t really have the time or motivation for that.
That’s why I would suggest providing the original B/W images that cannot be authentically colorized with AI(Theme: Swastika), so the author or any other interested person can handle the final editing themselves.

Let’s leave it at that then. I hope common sense and historical accuracy will prevail here! Well, anyone whose mum won’t let them play historically accurate adult games will probably have to create their own kids’ mod with roses and teddy bears on tank turrets, aircraft fuselages and so on.
http://modelizmspb.temza.ru/temas/verma ... 485-1.html
https://ivakin-alexey.livejournal.com/497211.html

The flag bearing the swastika was intended solely to enable Luftwaffe pilots to identify the tanks as German, and nothing more.
https://picwish.com/ru/photo-colorizer

viewtopic.php?t=30687&hilit=Historical+ ... a+Mod+1.10

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 1:56 pm I think we’re drifting into rather boring political discussions here

+1

Here is package #35. We'll continue tomorrow.

Crusader Tank

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 10:27 am Hello Phcas,

quick note: Due to legal restrictions here in Germany, I’m not able to create images with certain historical symbols (This is only about the swastika.) using AI. The tools automatically block such content.

However, I can still provide you with accurately reconstructed and colorized vehicles — just without those symbols.

How would you prefer to proceed? Should I send you the finished images without markings, or would you rather receive the base versions so you can handle the final edits yourself

Also, just to let you know: yesterday it still worked to some extent with a bit of effort, but as of today the AI is consistently blocking this functionality or depiction.

Best regards Tobi

rare-photo-of-the-bt-42-while-it-was-still-in-service-v0-d8myhb1ewm661.pngx32050_122mm_M1938.png

Hi, I think the units look also good without the symbols. What do you think?

Tobi72 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 5:47 pm Here is package #35. We'll continue tomorrow.BigUnit#35.zip

Thanks

phcas wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2026 6:34 am Hi, I think the units look also good without the symbols. What do you think?

I know the question was directed to Tobi but when the pictures are fine for you then everyone should accept this.
So from my side i give you +1 for the pictures if that is allowed

Hi, I think the units look also good without the symbols. What do you think?

Thanks, I’m glad you like them
Of course, an original will always remain an original, that’s clear — but personally, it doesn’t bother me if certain vehicles or aircraft are missing the swastika.
The focus is on the vehicles themselves, and the overall impression still remains authentic.
Anyone can later add or modify the images as they wish.
I will continue working on making the reconstructions and colorizations as accurate as possible, and I’m also looking for alternatives.

Acer6920 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2026 10:51 am

phcas wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2026 6:34 am Hi, I think the units look also good without the symbols. What do you think?

I know the question was directed to Tobi but when the pictures are fine for you then everyone should accept this.
So from my side i give you +1 for the pictures if that is allowed

Thank you.