Modeling Israel vs Hamas War

 Modern wars are very difficult to model, on the one hand, practically no manufacturer makes modern equipment, modern soldiers, hardware with modern insignia, weapons, etc. Well, there is an exception, the Russia-Ukraine War can be modeled, because they are using ancient weapons, the Russians even took their old T-54s from the museums and in the emergency, the Ukrainians even used the T-34s from the monuments.

In the case of Israel's war against Hamas, it will be more complicated, because those in Hamas are very well equipped, with the most modern Russian weapons, but their uniforms are somewhat informal, more similar to those of a ninja than to the of a regular soldier, on the other hand, there are figures of Israeli soldiers, but from the Yom Kippur era.

And to finish grinding it, with the revolution of the language of the wokes (which translates as depraved or perverted, not as progressive), now you have to give the bad things nice names, otherwise you are a phobic in some way, so Now the new definitions imply that the following images must be associated with the new words:

New definition of Child:

Note the Russian weapons, AK-74, shaped charge RPG, IR markers and sights, weapons from the most modern of the Russian arsenals..

New definition of Israeli Soldier:

Note the evil "colonialism" in the eyes of this soldier, that is why those from Hamas executed them.

The problem is that if we want to make a model of the attacks, we would have to make the soldiers headless, and add a lot of gore, something that we modelers do not usually do, because in general it is considered in bad taste, unless you are a woke and consider that evil can always be justified

Modeling Area 51, the UFO

 It has always been a mystery, the reason for the UFO crash in Roswell, how did an advanced civilization crash a ship on Earth? After all, one would expect a spaceship to be so advanced that it would not have accidents.

However, a recent Hacking of the Area 52 computers, which, since they use Windows Vista, were not even a decent challenge, I obtained the following photos, in which it is explained in detail, what happened, why the accident happened:

Scratch model, plasticine alien, paper base, the UFO is the recycling of a yogurt jar lid, the bottle, Rum, why else would they visit Earth?

Critic to the Modern Art

Do modelers have more talent than modern artists?

When one visits a museum and sees the crap that these guys are presenting, the answer is obvious:

Of course we have more talent than a guy who just sticks a banana to the wall or an "artist", whose work is a half-filled plastic bucket, and who try to hide their lack of talent and technique, with bullshit, when they try to to blurt out, to justify his work, as soon as you start to listen, it is "to create awareness of...", you already know that it is a current and victimized discourse of "social justice", which has nothing to do with ART , but with posturing and vulgar politics,

I love Art, and like all good modellers, I know a lot about painting techniques, but I also enjoy art history, and I also had to read the perspective books of the great Renaissance painters, like Piero della Francesca, to pass my subjects. Geometry, so I have a respectable knowledge of painting, so when a "modern artist" tells me that I don't enjoy his work, "because I don't understand it", I can fully realize that it is the finest and purest bullshit that can say, blaming the viewer for the lack of talent of an artist, is a good way to hide, to divert a painful truth, that there are no good artists in the Museums and they are filled with merchants, a Jesus is missing to expel to these scammers of our cultural Temples.

And while art schools stop teaching painting, modelers continue to do it for pleasure, or in other words, the purest form of art, because we learn techniques, art, wear, gouache, materials , just for the pleasure of doing, of creating works, of enjoying the highest of our civilization, doing it, and yes, we are the ones who are preserving the artistic tradition of the West, it is we, for whom the manufacturers make paints, materials , brushes and all the paraphernalia that art requires.

And from our elevated vantage point in the Olympus of art, we can snort at "modern artists" who don't even know which way to hold the brush and who couldn't identify artistic sensibility, even if it bit them in the rear, who are incapable of create that emotion that the works of Caravaggio or Da Vinci did.

There is more technique in this opaque Phantom, than in many modern exhibitions.

And like those great geniuses, we do enjoy our art, we strive to learn and no matter how long it takes us, but we have great dedication and love for our Art, there is more talent in one of our model showcases than in many. museums.

Assembling the Spitfire Israel

I finally got a Starfix Spitfire, only it's 1/48, a scale I don't usually build, I bought it for a price, which I assumed was a 1/72 model, and since it came in a box the same size as the P-51 and the A-4 of that Jewish brand, I assumed it would also be on that scale, they cost the same, but no, it's bigger.

I like to assemble planes of one nationality, with models of the same nationality, so this model was meant to be painted as an IDF/AF Spitfire Mk IX, during the War of Independence; the model is level 2, very simple, so much so that the wings come in one piece, it is not a pirated copy of the Airfix one, but something similar to an upscale of the old model in 1/72 of the Mk IX of that brand, the Plane represents a Mk VIII, but it's easy to fix, doesn't have a decent interior, and the decals are for a generic RAF plane

The main parts

Already painted with the basic colors and the interior of the cabin built with scratch

The model is almost complete, it lacks paint in some details.

Temporary Decoration Fiat G.50 Freccia, Albania

 There are models that do not deserve to be represented, either because we do not have exact information about them or because their very existence is highly debatable, furthermore, there are times when we just want to have an idea of ​​what the models to be made would be like, so it is necessary to apply sometimes temporary decoration to a model, I had already talked about it before, with a Colombian J2F Duck, of which there are no photos, but I was curious how it would look, but now I am going to deal with the subject in more depth.

G.50 Freccia Albania

After the fall of Italy in World War II, much of its equipment was abandoned everywhere, in the postwar period, several countries repaired it and returned to service, so we have information on Yugoslav or Croatian aircraft, but we have no information of Albania, where the Regia Aeroanutica had large quantities of aircraft, so it is possible that some of them were repaired and used by the new Albanian Air Force, but unfortunately, there is not a single photo on the Internet of an Albanian aircraft between 1946 to 1949.

So to assemble one of them, it is impossible to have correct data, we can only speculate, so I have thought to use one of my last G.50 to assemble an Albanian plane, but before doing so, I have decided to temporarily decorate one, to see how It would be seen and if it is worth doing.

temporary badges

In a store ticket, I paint the black circles, to which I add the guides to make the red stars, as well as the decoration of the rudder, which is a rectangle with the Albanian colors; I cut them out and glue them on with a glue stick.

The result, even without cutting the rudder badge, which has given me a good idea to repair broken rudders.

And the final result, an Albanian Freccia, which really looks weird, and since I don't like it that much, maybe it would be better to paint one with the darker scheme used at the end of the war, or repaint it completely in Russian colors, like the Yugoslav appliances.

B-29 Enola Gay

 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.

Revell's Freedom Fighters

 This box contains the three 1/72 fighter models, the rarest of Revell, they are the last molds of that series to have been manufactured, in the seventies, in a very short production, I think it was only once, the Cr. 42 I have only seen it in one edition of the seventies and in this package, the PZL 11 I think was produced more, even in Mexico, the only one that I am sure was produced here is the I-16, because I saw it at the Lodela offices, when they were in Berlin 34.

These molds must have had a problem, they were the last to be made, and had a very short life, in fact the old molds from the 50s and 60s were still used until the nineties, but these were not, maybe it was a technological step. Wrong, the models were much better made, the plastic was finer and they were very well made, perhaps that was achieved with less efficient molding metals, the explanation can only be hypothesis, these models have never been produced again, like this They are very expensive, these are in their original packaging, and I do not intend to open them until I have an event worth celebrating, or perhaps, like the Ar-234, I assemble them to remove the bad taste of these two terrible years.