Credits
Notes on how this site is made.
AI use
No decorative image live on SprueStack today is AI-generated: every decorative header and background on the site is plain CSS and SVG, written in code. If that ever changes, this page will be updated first, with the tool, date and prompt used logged for any AI-generated decorative image before it is published.
AI is never used for kit facts, build steps, quotes, book details, or on any plan, build photo or kit page, and no AI image is used of a real kit, a real person, a real place, or anything made to look like a wartime photograph.
Trademarks
Maker and product names mentioned on this site, including in the Kit Archive, are trademarks of their respective owners. They are used here only to identify and describe products for buying guides and reviews. No logos or box art are reproduced, and SprueStack is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of the makers it writes about.
Photo credits
Every reference photo on this site is real, never AI-generated, and never box art or a manufacturer product photo. Every photo carries a short credit line where it's used; the full record, grouped by page, is below.
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hero photo | 43MZrinyiII | CC0 | Source |
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technique band photo | Bill Abbott | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Source |
/guides/bocage-hedgerow-terrain/
/kits/
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card thumbnail: airfix-t34 | Simon | CC BY 2.0 | Source |
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card thumbnail: tamiya-35190-m4-sherman-early | Roland Turner | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Source |
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card thumbnail: airfix-spitfire-mk1a | NASA | Public domain | Source |
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card thumbnail: printable-scenery-3d-terrain | John Abella | CC BY 2.0 | Source |
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card thumbnail: tamiya-sherman-easy-eight | Assassin3577 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
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card thumbnail: warlord-bolt-action-starter-set | 43MZrinyiII | CC0 | Source |
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/kits/tamiya-35190-m4-sherman-early/
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hero photo | Roland Turner | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Source |
/kits/airfix-spitfire-mk1a/
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hero photo | NASA | Public domain | Source |
/kits/printable-scenery-3d-terrain/
/kits/tamiya-sherman-easy-eight/
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hero photo | Assassin3577 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
/kits/warlord-bolt-action-starter-set/
/types/plastic-kits/
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type page photo | Bill Abbott | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Source |
/types/brick-builds/
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type page photo | Alan Chia | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Source |
/types/other-materials/
/guides/ruined-farmhouse/
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hero photo | Salvas, U.S. Army Signal Corps | Public domain | Source |
Normandy context map coastline: Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain).
Where a photo is licensed CC BY-SA, we credit the author and licence and link the source; any resized or cropped derivative file we publish is offered under the same CC BY-SA version, and the licence applies only to that photo, not to the rest of the site. The same applies to CC BY images, except that share-alike is not required. Public domain and CC0 images are credited as a courtesy, not because the licence requires it.
Data sources
Zero Hour, this site's day-by-day WW2 history feature, draws on the sources below. Every entry on the site carries its own source link; this table is the full attribution and licence record for where that data originally comes from.
| Source | Licence | Notes |
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| Wikipedia | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Text is adapted from Wikipedia articles and is shared here under the same licence. |
| US Air Force THOR | CC0: Public Domain | THOR (Theater History of Operations Reports), reached via a Kaggle dataset (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/usaf/world-war-ii), which lists the dataset licence as CC0: Public Domain; commercial use permitted. Original source: the US Air Force THOR database, a US government work. |
| US Army CMH chronology | Public domain | US Army Center of Military History. A US government work. |
| FRUS, US State Dept | Public domain | Foreign Relations of the United States, US Office of the Historian. A US government work. |
| Hansard (UK Parliament) | Open Parliament Licence v3.0 | None |
| US Navy chronology (NHHC) | Public domain | Naval History and Heritage Command. A US government work. |
| Wikidata | CC0 1.0 | None |
| The London Gazette | Open Government Licence v3.0 | None |
| UK National Archives | Open Government Licence v3.0 | The National Archives. |
| Wikipedia (via muffinlabs) | CC BY-SA 4.0 | The muffinlabs "On this day" API, serving Wikipedia content; credited under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence as Wikipedia above. Commercial use is permitted with attribution and share-alike. |
| Wikipedia (via byabbe) | CC BY-SA 4.0 | The byabbe "on this day" API, serving Wikipedia content; credited under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence as Wikipedia above. Commercial use is permitted with attribution and share-alike. |
Artwork and type
The site's cards and other graphic elements are original CSS and SVG, written for this site and generated in code rather than drawn or photographed. Display type is set in Big Shoulders, body and interface text in Public Sans, and specs and meta text in Martian Mono, all self-hosted. Big Shoulders, Public Sans and Martian Mono are each published under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
Tooling
Built with Astro and deployed as a static site.