Models on TV and in the movies

overkillphil wrote:

I've noticed a trend in Bruckheimer shows for model builders to be portrayed as psychos and mentally ill individuals.

This sparked a little memory for me.  Did anyone ever see "Boyz N the Hood"?  I can't remember character names but the one guy who was staying on the straight and narrow and was on his way to college was a model builder.  His messed up brother always looked up to him and commented how he was always building his models.

Eric

Wirraway wrote:

Re, Top Gun, was that the scene where Slider has the (wooden ?) Model of the A4  in the classroom ? "Crashed and burned huh Mav ?" "Slider, you stink !"

after the girl (charlie was it) gave tom cruise the note.  in the same scene i think there was a large scale F-14 on the desk in the background.

overkillphil wrote:

I've noticed a trend in Bruckheimer shows for model builders to be portrayed as psychos and mentally ill individuals.

Well, many of us do appear to be on the eccentric side of life. When writing for TV, even more than movies, the writers will go for the quick stereotype rather than a well defined character, especially of the character has a one time appearance as opposed to a major or recurring character.

Keep your eyes open for a "ripped from the headlines" Law and Order: SVU featuring a model building dad who, along with his wife, overdose their daughter to death. I don't know if they'll pick up on it, but the sick who was charged in this crime in the eastern part of the state used to be in my club. 

There is an episode of "Leave it to Beaver" where Beaver is building a small sailing ship.                    

I've also seen built models sitting on their dresser.

PatlaborUnit1,

In the latest episode of BSG Adama is distraught over losing Starbuck and goes postal on that sailing vessel. That was painful to watch!!! All that time and effort in measuring, cutting, tying, gluing, and trimming the rigging on a model that size take a huge amount of time.

What I can think up right now are:

 Easy Money, Dangerfield is building a Me 109 and ends up destorying it then askes for someone to clean up the mess.

Captain Parkard in STNG has a office with several models in it, mostly of past Enterprises I think. I remember one time he was staring at one while thinking though a problem.

In Star Wars Luke is playing with a model of a ship. That actually a ship model prop that they had decided not to use in the movie.

In the show Joan of Arcida, the brother of Joan was wheel chair bound and he painted figures.

In the movie Small Soldiers the owner of the toy shop was a wooden model ship builder and had a nice completed one sitting on his workbench. It mast was broken off by the young kid(actor) don't know his name. The owner found out and was furious.

 Also  Firefox, lot's of models used there. And the "Airplane" movies, and the "Airport" movies, remember I think it was Airport V? where the Concorde was 'dog fighting' with a couple of phantoms trying to shoot it down?  Independence day too.

Neil

armornut wrote:

Anyone remeber the Heuy hanging above the doorway in "Col. Henry Blake's" office on M.A.S.H.? kinda odd a Nam era acraft in Korea but hey its the thought that counts.

Yes I remember seeing that model while I was watching an episode a couple of days ago and wondered the same thing! Looked like the old Revell, 1/48, 1/32 scale kit? I had one of those years ago and me and my friend hung it out on a tree limb and shot it up with a pellet gun, I remember THAT cause he accidently shot me in the hand while I was  hanging it up! Och!

Neil

How about the scratch-built admiralty-type model of the Acheron that the crewman built in his spare time in Master and Commander?

Mark

I just rememebered another one. There is an episode of Emergency! where a young man is workign with scale flying model rockets. He has many from the then-current Estes and Centuri line including a Saturn V ( I was flying a lot of rockets at the time so I zoned in on this). He was mixing his own liquid fuel using household and hardware store chemicals and a fire ensued....the Estes Saturn V has been used for conversions and such, and since I started this thread, it qualifies here :-)

( I have never started a thread that went three pages!  This is good stuff! Lets keep it going!!)

David

wing_nut wrote:

There was a Hasesgawa (?) Stuka on "Desperate Housewives" last night

This episode aired in Aus on Monday.  The Stuka featured prominently in the best line of the episode, a double entendre regarding "flaps".

http://desperatehousewives.ahaava.com/0317%20CC%20(not%20edited).doc

And the kid from "Stuart Little" has a basement full of plane, auto, rail & ship models, the ship featuring in the big RC boat race in Central Park.

The head Nazi in Blues Brothers was shown painting an fig of an eagle.

In the movie Mask, with Cher and Sam Elliot; what did Sams character, Garth, bring Rocky? I think it was a model.

Later in the movie, Rocky has a friend over and they are scheming to get to Katmandu. A model is sitting on his dresser. What was it?

That movie made me cry. 

Hi Guys,

In addition to ones already mentioned.

In Home Improvement there were always a bunch of model cars on the table on display.

In That 70's Show Kitty gives the gang a box of toys to give them something to do. Fez picks a Monogram P-51D of course it was in the BBDoll boxing so was incorrect even though that kit was available in the 70's.

Jerry Seinfeld has a build up of a Randy Bowen sculpted Superman on his fridge.

This one not mentioned and should scare the bejeebus out of us all.

On E.R.  Bob Newhart played a gentleman with a degenerative vision problem. He is a Napoleonic figure modeler. One scene, the poor guy is shown trying to paint a figure and he is having trouble seeing.

Cheers,

Max Bryant

I watched "Back to the Future" for the umpteenth time last night and for the 1^st time noticed that when Marty goes to his dads room dressed as a space man and blasts him with Van Halen music, there is Revell B-29 box on the night stand.

While this is not a model, I thought it was kind of interesting.  I don't really know this show very well but I watched an episode of "Futurama", the animated show for a few years ago, the other night with my daughter.  The characters and their spaceship got time warped back to the 1940s and was chased by a couple of P-51Bs. 

How about the models used for T.V. series & movies?

Was watching the History Channel last week & there was a show about auctioning off a whole slew of models & props from the Star Trek empire. there was a 6 or 8 foot NCC-1701D, (with power supply me thinks), that went for $500,000, and a Klingon Bird of Prey, w/power supply, that went for arounds $100K.

 Huh, how many 1/32 scales could one get for that....aww heck, put an addition on the house just for the model shop.

I saw that History Channel episode too.

The main items went for big prices but what surprised me was some of the props went for what I would consider a price most people could afford. Mainly costumes and accessories.

I saw the new Transformers movie last Friday. The boy(main human character) the bad guys are after has some model planes hanging in his bedroom. I only remember seeing them in the beginning of the movie when you first meet him.

By the way, it was FUN movie! 

At the beginning of the new movie "Astronaut Farmer" the son has many built up Estes-type rockets. He also appears to have recently completed the Atomic City Mercury capsule. On his desk there appear to be a whole batch of Testor enamel paint bottles.