Here's a couple examples of what I'm talking about. Days of Wonder's game Memoir '44, came out with a new expansion this past Winter, called the Air Pack. It introduced aircraft minis and rules for the game. This expansion departed from the previous core game and other expansions in which the miniature plane figures are painted, wherea the former were mono-colored plastic. Still, to promote the game, the company held a plane painting contest in which they put an unpainted plane mini in Game Trade Magazine, for fans of the game to paint. I got two P-40 Warhawks that I painted as an American plane, and one as a Russian lend-lease:
