Ever wish you could see a model of a movie scene?

Tora Tora Tora, or anything else relating to Pearl Harbor

The Japanese aircraft in this movie were, indeed, modified T-6's. There were new canopies and in some cases. skirted landing gear added to increase the illusion. I was at an airshown in the early 80's where three modified T-6's did a mock up attack.

NovemberSong wrote:

I'd like to see one of Steve McQueen jumping the barbed wire fence on the motorcycle at the end of "The Great Escape", .

Well, here's the kit for you from Andrea

modelbuilder wrote:

Ive always thaught it might be fun to build the scene from Kellys Heroes where oddball and his men emerge from the train tunnel. Are there any good kits to use for Oddball's Sherman?

Gastonia eh? You're in my neck of the woods!

Not to sing songs of praise about another website here, but Armorama is doing a Campaign Diorama build of movie scenes entitled "Hooray for Hollywood". I've actually got one from a really obscure movie I'm working on at present.

I'd like to see a scenbe from "Stalag 17" of either William Holden pimp slapping Peter Graves, or the climatic shot at the end of the movie..... Not that I have anything against Peter Graves, but if you've seen this movie, you'll understand completely. If you haven't seen it, you need to, it's a classic.

That, and I'd like to see one of Steve McQueen jumping the barbed wire fence on the motorcycle at the end of "The Great Escape", and a sniper scene from "Enemy at the Gates".

Hi Fellas,

What about the Air Cav assault on the VC village from "Apocalypse Now" in 1/35 / 1/32 scale. That wouls look great, but as I already get grief from the missus along the lines of..." and where do you think you're going to put that...." I doubt she'll let me build this one as it would take up most of the back garden.....but it would look good though. Maybe I could charge people to view it....."build it and they will come....."

Failing this, I like the idea from the film "Downfall" mentioned above. If you've never seen it get it out. Try and rent the 2 disc version as the 2nd disc explains all about the making of. Excellent.

Rich

tornado wrote:

id like to build a scene from pearl habour were the zeros go ova tha hill n ther are the littl kids starin at them or wer i think ther zeros attak the airstrip or i wud build the scene from memphis belle wer them to men r hangin out the bombbay

id like to build a scene from pearl habour were the zeros go ova tha hill n ther are the littl kids starin at them or wer i think ther zeros attak the airstrip

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i wud build the scene from memphis belle wer them to men r hangin out the bombbay

I've been pondering the truck scene in the desert from Raiders of the Lost Ark. I'm just not sure my skills are equal to the task

plymonkey wrote:

IIRC, Oddball's Sherman, in fact all the tanks in his little unit, were British Fireflies, sans the stowage bins on the back of the turrets. They may have just had the barrels extended to look like M4A3 76s, but something just didn't look right about them, for US M4s in WWII. The barrels were too long for the 76mm they put on US M4s.

Oddball's Shermans were actually Yugoslavian vehicles that had 76mm guns installed post-war in the usually 75mm-gunned turrets . They're definitely not British Fireflies.
The stowage bin-like boxes on the bustles of a Fireflies are actually armored boxes for the radio set, by the way.
Just a little Firefly trivia!

I would go for the Japanese land-based naval gun in the movie "Windtalkers", with the loaders having to carry the bagged charges and the artillery shell and ramming them into the breach seperately.

Or something from the movie "We Were Soldiers", such as the "Broken Arrow" scene, when they called in a full-support air strike, or the rescue scene from "Flight of the Intruders".

  Tom T

viper_mp wrote:

Only problem is making sure you get the wire/rope hooked up in the right place.  There are four rings in the ceiling which are used for troop insertion.

Yes, but I wasn't thinking of the "thin" rope insertion but the "thick" rope insertion and there are only two thick ropes (one on each side) coming out of the helicopter.

This is waht I meant by rappeling (four thin ropes):

And this by fast rope (two thick ropes, actually on the pic it's only one since it's a Navy Seahawk):

Avus wrote:

Historex_Rob wrote: If you have not already thought of this... by using thin gauge, piano wire, one could use the figures' repel lines to support the helicopter. Thanks for the hint, but I was thinking of fast rope insertion and not rappeling; if I remember correctly the fast rope is about 3in. thick so the steel rod I used should fit the duty.

Fish-Head Aric wrote:

How about the new King Kong movie... there are several scenes that would really make good dios there!  Maybe the scene with the leach-things engulfing the guy?  Or the heroine on the "sacrifice stick" waiting for the unknown horror to come?

I would really like to build the boat from that movie.  It is nicely weathered and have plenty of details.

How about the new King Kong movie... there are several scenes that would really make good dios there!  Maybe the scene with the leach-things engulfing the guy?  Or the heroine on the "sacrifice stick" waiting for the unknown horror to come?

How about the new King Kong movie... there are several scenes that would really make good dios there!  Maybe the scene with the leach-things engulfing the guy?  Or the heroine on the "sacrifice stick" waiting for the unknown horror to come?

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Historex_Rob wrote:

If you have not already thought of this... by using thin gauge, piano wire, one could use the figures' repel lines to support the helicopter.

Thanks for the hint, but I was thinking of fast rope insertion and not rappeling; if I remember correctly the fast rope is about 3in. thick so the steel rod I used should fit the duty.

n/t