Time for an update here; Got a new movie to add to the list, Star Trek Into Darkness has a scene inside Star Fleet HQ where every major starfleet flagship is lined up, from the shuttlecraft to the USS Vengance (from the movie) including a few rarely seen surprises in model form, like a big scale DY-100, and two original Matt Jefferies starship Enterprise concept designs including the ringship design Enterprise and what later entered Trek canon as the USS Daedalus, or the tennis ball on a waterbattle as one person called it.

Ringship Enterprise:

Daedalus:

One more, The Brady Bunch TV series.   One episode is about Peter building a MPC 69 Barracuda 1/25 kit.  He has the box in his hand in several scenes and is working on it at the kitchen table.  That was late 69 or early 70 I think.

stikpusher

Bish

GMorrison

There was a CSI where the killer built accurate shadow boxes of the crime scenes.

Ye, I remember that one. Wasn't it a running case through out a couple of the series.

That was some killer minature work... 

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Hmmmm, in an episode of the Travel Channel's 'Mysteries at the Museum' they featured a story about a woman a hundred years or so ago that created elaborate dioramas of crime scenes that were used to train detectives and officers in the forensics of examining a real scene for clues. 

One that I just noticed last night.. In the Hawaii 5-0 reboot, there's a (Tamiya?) USS Enterprise on a shelf on the wall in McGarrett's office.

Not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but there was a Chuck Norris show or movie(can't remember) and I believe it was Chuck's character, who built model airplanes, and helped one of the kids in the neighborhood out and showed him how to build.  Come to think of it 95% sure it was a movie, just don't remember which one.

I sure didn't, bless her heart ;-)

stikpusher

Yup saw it... (Amy Adams is such a dish!) I was suprised to see the model making aspect. LMAO at some of the stuff in the movie.

Didja know she started out as a Hooters girl? 

stikpusher

Bish

GMorrison

There was a CSI where the killer built accurate shadow boxes of the crime scenes.

Ye, I remember that one. Wasn't it a running case through out a couple of the series.

That was some killer minature work... 

That's pretty punny stik!!

Bish

GMorrison

There was a CSI where the killer built accurate shadow boxes of the crime scenes.

Ye, I remember that one. Wasn't it a running case through out a couple of the series.

That was some killer minature work... 

GMorrison

There was a CSI where the killer built accurate shadow boxes of the crime scenes.

Ye, I remember that one. Wasn't it a running case through out a couple of the series.

SuppressionFire

Not sure but didn't 'Stripes' with Bill Murray have a scene with the commander playing 'war' on a table size Napoleonic diorama battle scene?    

Great thread!

Recall archival footage of Adolf Hitler examining a Panther prototype model in approximately 1/25 scale?

Not sure but didn't 'Stripes' with Bill Murray have a scene with the commander playing 'war' on a table size Napoleonic diorama battle scene?    

iraqiwildman

stikpusher

Hammer....? Hammer....? Anyone?

What happened to Hammer??? It's been over a year since he last posted.

No one knows, for sure............

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/general_discussion/f/9/t/157683.aspx

stikpusher

Hammer....? Hammer....? Anyone?

There is a scene in the movie "Big" where Tom hanks admonishes Elizabeth Perkins for attempting to touch his Tamiya U.S.S. Enterprise aircraft carrier model when he brings her up to his loft.

Yep, one of those comedy "sleepers". Good stuff. I couldn't imagine doing that line of work all day, every day.....

There was a CSI where the killer built accurate shadow boxes of the crime scenes.

Yup saw it... (Amy Adams is such a dish!) I was suprised to see the model making aspect. LMAO at some of the stuff in the movie.

The most accurate portrayal of our hobby is in the movie "Sunshine Cleaning", released in 2008. In this movie, one of the characters is missing an arm, but his hobby is building plastic models, and, if I remember correctly (no acronyms for me!!), he owned a hobby shop, too. Quite a few scenes show his hobby bench decked out as well as any I've ever seen in real life - stacks of models in his stash, a Dremel tool, desk lamp, magnifying glass, numerous models in various stages of being built, paint bottles, modeling tools, etc. Whomever came up with this character must've done quite a bit of modeling himself/herself, or knew someone that did. The accuracy and attention to the various details of the hobby were the best I've ever seen in any movie or TV show. The movie was mainly a chick-flick, but it was pretty darned funny, too. Worth the price to rent it.  

I'm sure most of you used to watch the old Warner Brothers' cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and so forth) on Saturday morning TV when you were kids; goodness knows I sure did, even well into my adult years! 

I remember one WB cartoon started out with two mice that overate so much cheese that they never want to eat cheese again. They both decide that they have nothing to live for, so they attempt suicide by trying to get a cat to eat them. The cat finds something suspicious about mice that want to be eaten, and so refuses to do so. This ticks off the mice and they chase the cat around begging it to eat them, while the cat thinks he's going completely bonkers. About halfway through the cartoon, we find the cat building a model ship in a bottle ("They say a hobby sometimes helps," he says to the audience)--only the ship remains outside and it's the cat that's in the bottle, at least until the mice smash it with a hammer!

Hammer....? Hammer....? Anyone?

Yeah, like when I was 18!

Theres a modeling scene in "The Kings Speech".

Nice Hammer resurrection as well.

My turn for a zombie thread... I just stumbled across this movie still shot from "Empire of the Sun"... tell me how many of you as youngsters never did anything similar...?

Hun Hunter

I guess no one saw Super 8 last year, the main kid is an avid modeler, to quote, "You just dry brush on some Euro Gray..." Pretty sure J.J. Abrams was a modeler in the early 80's.

Actually, it was mentioned several posts prior to yours and there was an in depth discussion regarding the movie and modeling when the movie came out. This is just an old thread that was brought back to life recently so it jumped over the Super 8 discussion.

I totally forgot about the 1/1 scale P-40 models used in The Flying Tigers and Tora! Tora! Tora!...

There were a few 1/1 Spitfires and Hurricanes in The Battle of Britain too...

bondoman

stikpusher:

 

bondoman:

 

 

stikpusher:

I keep trying to explain to my kids how much of a change Star Wars was in 1977. Before that, Sci Fi had been pretty bleak... 2001

 

Stop right there! That was a beautiful model movie. The ships (ILM was invented for that movie) constantly moved from dark to light. Wondrous stuff.

 

 

 

So was Silent Running.... Anybody remember that one with Bruce Dern? Another early 70s dark Sci Fi film with beautiful models... I am pretty sure that the model(s) from that movie were used in the original BSG series.

 

Yes, I saw it in Denmark when I lived there, retitled "Verdens sidste have"; "earths last garden". It was an ILM movie too.

Very sad.

As far as BSG, I think film from that movie was used.

 

Yeah, several shots of the three 'ag ships' were from 'Silent Running'. I think most if not all of the shots were in 'War of the Gods' when Count Iblis goes aboard them after promising to increase the crop yields. There were a few shots of the Klingon Bird of Prey from 'The Search for Spock' that showed up in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' on TV too. And a shot of a Hughes 500 chopper flying into a mountain from one of the '80s Bond movies that popped up several times in 'Airwolf' and the 'A-Team'.

*End of totally pointless trivia*

My biggest gripe about CGI is that most of the artists forget that an actual object has weight. No matter how good the CGI is if you have a multi-ton aircraft zipping around doing stuff a friggin' dragonfly couldn't do it destroys any illusion of reality. Same when you have a crocodile the size of a Greyhound bus shoot fifty feet/18 meters straight up out of a swamp with water about five feet/1.2 meters deep to grap a hovering helicopter.

I grew up in the era of computer effects and I hate them, models lend such authenticity and substance

That's exactly what the CGI freaks say about their stuff, that looks authentic..  Phooey.. Personally, I think CGI makes everything look like a video game...   There are good renditions of CGI FX in some movies, like the "Reporting" scene in "Flyboys" where the smoking N-17 is passing behind the CO's head both in flight and on the ground a bit later, but in the dogfights they end up looking like a game.. (A game that ripped-off Lucas' Tie-Fighter swarm-attack in "Jedi", IMHO..)

I guess no one saw Super 8 last year, the main kid is an avid modeler, to quote, "You just dry brush on some Euro Gray..." Pretty sure J.J. Abrams was a modeler in the early 80's.

In my humble opinion the two finest sci-fi films for models and special effects are 2001 and Blade Runner. So much of the Los Angles landscape in Blade Runner was hand built in scale, and sadly the pyramid burned during filming. 2001, it's a shame that Kubrick had the models destroyed (ironically fearing their use in a Star Wars type film, read: soft sci-fi/film making) because they were fantastic. I grew up in the era of computer effects and I hate them, models lend such authenticity and substance, especially when executed as well as 2001. For my money 2001 contains the most legit space scenes ever, they feel real... and it was 1967!

stikpusher

 

bondoman:

 

 

stikpusher:

I keep trying to explain to my kids how much of a change Star Wars was in 1977. Before that, Sci Fi had been pretty bleak... 2001

 

Stop right there! That was a beautiful model movie. The ships (ILM was invented for that movie) constantly moved from dark to light. Wondrous stuff.

 

 

 

So was Silent Running.... Anybody remember that one with Bruce Dern? Another early 70s dark Sci Fi film with beautiful models... I am pretty sure that the model(s) from that movie were used in the original BSG series.

Very sad.

As far as BSG, I think film from that movie was used.