Models on TV and in the movies

Spiderman.

While practicing his webslinging in his room Peter knocks over rockets from the "Man in Space" set that was released around the time the movie was in production.

The only reason I recognized the particular set was that I had been working on it a few months earlier.

I remember an episode of the Batman TV series where Burt Ward comes down the staies with a model of a p38 lightning.  Also there is all the Gerry Anderson TV shows like Fireball XL5 to Space 1999 and his movies like; Journey to the far side of the sun. Another movie I just thought of is; In Harms Way, with John Wayne. Several of the ship models were for sale back a few years ago. Hope this thread will continue as I always like to see new ways our hobby makes it to the visual media.

P.S. I just remembered that Tora,Tora,Tora also had a bunch of ship models that were used and then put for sale.

Simpsons:  Bart has a jet airplane hanging in his bedroom

Biggest all time model reference on TV was Malcom in the Middle.  The father gets in a christmas decoration competition against his neighbor and for unclear reasons it morphs into he and the youngest son building  a huge Pearl Harbor diorama complete with monogram Zeros that mechanically dive bomb and pyrotechniques.   Needless to say it ends badly.

In the animated show Metalocalypse, the rythym guitarist Toki Wartooth is a model builder.  In various episodes, he'll be holding a plane while its drying.  In one he glued a plane to his face, and in another got stuck to the wall.  When my girlfriend saw his desk, she laughed out loud and said it looked just like mine.  Now she calls me Toki all the time. 

On a recent episode of  "American Pickers" Frank bought a batch of old car models for $20 each. There were about 15-20 of them.

There also appeared to be a batch of military models next to the car models but nothing was mentioned of them.

Several built up models were setting on a table.

Oh, they also bought a leather WW2 Luftwaffe skull cap with microphone.

I believe the guy selling them was some kind of an engineer, In his younger years he said he worked on B-52 jet engines. He had a ton of old military stuff.

Yep

saw it yesterday, I noted an F14 and what looked like a T38 (could be wrong), hanging like they were on sticks (stick models). 

 David

On the Simpsons Lisa builds a Dio of the Edgar Allen Poe story "Tell Tale Heart" when competeing with the new girl in a contest at school, on the series King of Queens Doug and Deken's (sp?) one son are building a model battleship but the kid is more interested in Carry's make-up, and its been a long time, but i'm pretty sure in the Mel Gibson movie "Signs" the son has a bunch of WWI biplanes hanging from the ceiling in his bed room when he and his sister are looking through his teloscope

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.

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! 

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.

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 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. 

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

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. 

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

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.

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

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

Mark

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

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

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.