One of the most important planes in history, it is also one of the most controversial, particularly in recent years, of the politically correct, in which the launch of the Atomic Bomb is seen, as something bad, ugly, there have been protests against This, the most famous, some liberals threw a bucket of blood on the plane, which is curious, if the bomb had not been dropped, and the US troops had had to invade Japan, it was very likely that the grandparents of these activists, possibly would have dead, so in a way, they are protesting against their own existence.
The Enola Gay was not a normal B-29, it had been specially modified, removing the gun turrets, replacing most of the observation bubbles, with simple portholes, with a special bomb bay and with a dome next to the bay, which I have nowhere found what it was for.
The model had not been produced, until this year, when it was manufactured by Academy in 1/144, so I used one from Lodela, which was incomplete, it is the old mold from the seventies, so it is a magnificent model, which For some reason, it was never made again.
The Enola Gay had two decorations, the first, which is the one with which the bomb was dropped, has a huge R in the tail circle, which was later changed by an arrow, decoration with which it remained for many years, first in service. with the North American Nuclear Bombardment Wing and later in the Smithsonian Museum
It is an airplane surrounded by controversy, but in this era of victimhood, even one of its presentations was very controversial, since it focused on the effects of the bomb, rather than on the device itself, something that has been done more and more. popular, to observe the victims of the bomb, rather than the factors that led to its launch, sad stories of children burned by the bomb, manipulating Vulnerability (as if the Japanese Empire had been a poor vulnerable victim of the malevolent allies) to do cheap activism.
Or maybe simple ignorance, focusing on a single event, for ignoring the others, in fact more people died in the Bombing of Tokyo, on March 9, 1945, which left between 80,000 and 130,000 dead, against the 70,000 of Hiroshima, or the destruction of Manila by the Japanese, with 100,000 dead or the Nanking massacre, with 300,000 dead, perpetrated by the Japanese, the war is something terrible, it must be avoided, but we cannot judge it only with a simple moral, of victims and victimizers; In my opinion, the Japanese deserve such punishment, only for the crimes they committed against Australian nurses on Banka Island, let alone the others they did during the war.
The model is the old Revell mold, the paint El Viejo Marino, using brush, this model had been planned to be finished 75 years after the event, but the death of my mother made me postpone it for a whole year.
