A movie inspired purchase?

tigerman

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March 2003
From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

A movie inspired purchase?

Posted by tigerman on Monday, August 22, 2005 1:16 AM

After recently watching "Tora Tora Tora" for the bizillionith time, I looked at my stash to see my Zero and Val that I've always wanted to build since I first saw that movie. Never mind that I've barely started the Zero, but it caused me wonder what movie inspired you to purchase a tank, plane, ship, or whatever. I imagine the Battle of Britain pushed a few to buy some Spitfires!

Eric

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archangel571

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June 2005
From: NJ 07073

Posted by archangel571 on Monday, August 22, 2005 3:18 AM

Top Gun for the F14 kit..... the tomcat is still by far my favourite fighter from the modern usaf, topping the F18 and F22s, and it was mostly due to that movie, aside from the awesome variable swapt wings and 6 on 6 phoenix missiles.

-=Ryan=- Too many kits... so little free time. MadDocWorks

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Rob Gronovius

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December 2002
From: Fort Knox

Posted by Rob Gronovius on Monday, August 22, 2005 6:28 AM

The movie the Hulk made me go out and buy a Challenger tank in 1/76 scale so I could use it to make a Vizmod Abrams as seen in the movie.

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wing_nut

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April 2005
From: Piscataway, NJ!

Posted by wing_nut on Monday, August 22, 2005 6:47 AM

Just finished a Spitfire after seeing "Dark Blue World".

Marc

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 22, 2005 7:00 AM

"We were soldiers" made me buy a Skyraider-which I haven't built yet. :-(

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 22, 2005 7:08 AM

Hmmmm lets see here. Like you tora, tora, tora made me buy the 4 or five zeroes I have. Top Gun made me get the F-14. But mostly I have always loved the history, especially from WW2 to present. Plus my dad started my love affair with models when I was 10. Mix them both together and you get 23 year around modelling and 150+ unbuilt kits. Most of my earlier builds got destroyed when moving a couple of time when I got married. They will be replaced one day lol.

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Glamdring

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February 2005
From: Nashotah, WI

Posted by Glamdring on Monday, August 22, 2005 12:51 PM

I started collecting the Games Workshop Lord of the Rings miniatures. I bought a Shelby Mustang after seeing Gone in 60 Seconds. A Hemi 'Cuda after watching Nash Bridges. A Poltiac after seeing Smokey and the Bandit. A German Infantry dio set after Saving Private Ryan. A p-40 and a BF-109 and a couple battle ships (American and German) after watching Pearl Harbor and a sub after U-571. I'm still trying to find a decent sailing ship that I have been inspired to build after seeing Master and Commander, but I have found those kits are too expensive or bad quality. Needless to say, movies certainly affect my building! The list goes on, but that is all I can remember at the moment

Robert

"I can't get ahead no matter how hard I try, I'm gettin' really good at barely gettin' by"

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J-Hulk

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February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Monday, August 22, 2005 1:26 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Rob Gronovius

The movie the Hulk made me go out and buy a Challenger tank in 1/76 scale so I could use it to make a Vizmod Abrams as seen in the movie.

Hmmm...weren't those "Abrams" based on Centurions, Rob?
I could be nuts, of course...but those looked like Centurion roadwheels and tracks to me.

~Brian

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J-Hulk

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February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Monday, August 22, 2005 1:48 PM

Here's the 1/35 Dragon JGSDF M4A3E8 I bought and built after watching War of the Gargantuas on the big screen at a special showing in Kyoto:

After watching Gaira (Green Gargantua) kick and toss around a couple of these, I had to have one!

~Brian

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zokissima

Member since
July 2003
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted by zokissima on Monday, August 22, 2005 1:51 PM

Top Gun would be it for me. I found an old Monogram F-14 kit, it was the first kit I built, and it was what got me into modelling in the first place.

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J-Hulk

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February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Monday, August 22, 2005 2:55 PM

Oh hey, I forgot about this one:

I threw this together after seeing it in Battle of the Bulge.
Hessler's King Tiger! (played by a modified Italeri 1/35 M-47 Patton)

I love that wildly innacurate flick!
Just picked up the DVD last week.
There's an interesting interview with the producer, where he goes to great lengths describing the faultless accuracy of all the tanks used in the film..."We used the actual tanks that fought on both sides in WWII..."

Well, I suppose the Germans did EVENTUALLY use M-47s...but certainly not during the Battle of the Bulge! Big Smile [:D]

Funny stuff...

~Brian

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 22, 2005 3:07 PM

Hey Brian- the tanks in the BotB were about as authentic as Robert Shaw's hair colour. ;-)

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J-Hulk

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February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Monday, August 22, 2005 3:18 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by trowlfazz

Hey Brian- the tanks in the BotB were about as authentic as Robert Shaw's hair colour. ;-)

Heh heh!
Tell that to the producer! Big Smile [:D]

Funny how he made such a point of it, too...ah, those Hollywood types!

~Brian

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Thehannaman2

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August 2004
From: Buffalo NY

Posted by Thehannaman2 on Monday, August 22, 2005 4:54 PM

I never bought any kits after watching a particulat flick. However, I got back into armor and diorama modelling (well collecting anyway) after watching Band of Brothers. The Bastogne episode was AMAZING!

Justen

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Copterguy

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November 2003
From: Ontario, Canada

Posted by Copterguy on Monday, August 22, 2005 6:07 PM

Band of Brothers inspired me to build Tamiya's M4A3 Ardennes Sherman. I also built Tamiya's Stug IIIG not after a flick, but after reading Russ Schneider's "Siege- A novel of the Eastern Front". That is usually the way it is with me - I don't have a particular subject that I build - rather a film or book inspires me to buy and build something new.

Jim Smile [:)]

Current Projects: Tamiya M1A2 Tamiya LRDG Chevrolet CWT 30

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tigerman

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March 2003
From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

Posted by tigerman on Monday, August 22, 2005 11:01 PM

I should have added that I was never a huge Marder III M fan until I saw Private Ryan. Well that inspired a purchase that led to my sig pic.

Brian, I was a big Godzilla fan growing up as a kid and of Japanese monster movies. I liked how Godzilla would flame a jet with his breath. Evil [}:)]

I remember, War of the Gargantuans pretty well. Entertaining movie for the genre as most of them were.

Eric

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 22, 2005 11:47 PM

battle of britain made me fall in LOVE with RAF planes.

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tigerman

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March 2003
From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

Posted by tigerman on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:16 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by PakNicK-40

battle of britain made me fall in LOVE with RAF planes.

Even I have them weakness for the purr of a Merlin and the sleek lines of a Spitfire. Wish I had the guts to build one. Oh someday.

Eric

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J-Hulk

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February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 8:37 AM

And of course we can't forget vehicles that only exist in movies, like X-Wings, the Millennium Falcon, the Enterprise, the Galactica, Vipers, etc. etc!

~Brian

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:09 PM

i got star wars stuff because of the films
Babylon 5 space ship because of the program
Intruder because of flight of the intruder
skyraider

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overkillphil

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October 2004
From: Northern Indiana

Posted by overkillphil on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:13 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by J-Hulk

And of course we can't forget vehicles that only exist in movies, like X-Wings, the Millennium Falcon, the Enterprise, the Galactica, Vipers, etc. etc!

Yeah, I really want to get some of the Episode three kits.
I've been a fan of the B-25 since fifth grade when i first read 30 seconds over Tokyo. I think that the Mitchell was the first kit I went out and chose myself and wasn't given to me as a gift.

my favorite headache/current project: 1/48 Panda F-35

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roadkill_275

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September 2003
From: North East Texas

Posted by roadkill_275 on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 1:42 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by archangel571

Top Gun for the F14 kit..... the tomcat is still by far my favourite fighter from the modern usaf

Is there something I'm mising here?? Laugh [(-D]

BOB made me want to go out and buy He-111s, Ju-87s and Bf 109s. I didn't get the urge to do the RAF until much later.

Top Gun made me want to do the F-5 Aggressors

Tora Tora Tora made me want to do all of them. The ships the planes and the trucks.

Kevin M. Bodkins "Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup" American By Birth, Southern By the Grace of God! www.milavia.com Christian Modelers For McCain

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archangel571

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June 2005
From: NJ 07073

Posted by archangel571 on Friday, August 26, 2005 12:22 AM

hey, tigerman, was the marder III in Saving Private Ryan, a marder III ausf M sdkfz 138 or the marder III ausf H sdkfz 138?

QUOTE: Originally posted by roadkill_275

QUOTE: Originally posted by archangel571

Top Gun for the F14 kit..... the tomcat is still by far my favourite fighter from the modern usaf

Is there something I'm mising here??

........................................... guess i should have put down navy.. Question [?]

-=Ryan=- Too many kits... so little free time. MadDocWorks

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 26, 2005 3:16 AM

I guess i can blame the Cruel sea for my Flower class corvette and type VII u boat...

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berny13

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February 2003
From: Panama City, Florida, Hurricane Alley

Posted by berny13 on Friday, August 26, 2005 6:26 AM

The Final Countdown. The F-14 in flight shot, just had to have one with the skull and cross bones.

Berny

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tigerman

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March 2003
From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

Posted by tigerman on Friday, August 26, 2005 7:44 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by archangel571

hey, tigerman, was the marder III in Saving Private Ryan, a marder III ausf M sdkfz 138 or the marder III ausf H sdkfz 138]

Marder III M, hence my sig pic. It got hit with the Molotov cocktail out of the second story window. I believe they tried to duplicate the Marder III H or it was a 15cm SiG-33 that destroyed the tower near the end. I'm thinking more towards the SiG-33.

Eric

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Bucksco

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February 2003
From: Bucks county, PA

Posted by Bucksco on Sunday, August 28, 2005 8:55 PM

Well,
"The Blue Max" inspired me to create a totally innacurate Fokker tripe with lozenge camoflague (still one of my favorite aircraft movies!)

The movie "Waterloo" drove me to paint numerous Napoleonic figures.

I also remeber building Revell's PT109 after viewing the movie of the same name.

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tigerman

Member since
March 2003
From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

Posted by tigerman on Monday, August 29, 2005 12:13 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by jack21771

Well,
"The Blue Max" inspired me to create a totally innacurate Fokker tripe with lozenge camoflague (still one of my favorite aircraft movies!)

It did have some great footage.

Eric

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archangel571

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June 2005
From: NJ 07073

Posted by archangel571 on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 5:26 PM

I saw the Marder III H in ep 3 (fourth time watching series) for Band of Brothers in the hedgegrows and a Marder III M in ep 4 crossing a small bridge over a water tunnel!!!!! The Shermans and cromwells looked great and so does the Jagdpanther even though the tracks looked weird. I felt the fighting compartment for the Stug III looked too high and the chassis just does't seem right. sure they used a real stug III in the series? Hey, do you guys think that they use the same Tiger from Saving Private Ryan in Band of Brothers?? Cuz it's still the T34 chassis.

-=Ryan=- Too many kits... so little free time. MadDocWorks

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 6:34 PM

hehe, Hot Shots! inspired me to buy a model gnat

that plane is sooooo small!

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