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

Bob Sarnowski did a very nice dio depicting SGTs Shughart and Gordon's last stand in Mogadishu, inspired by the movie Black Hawk Down, that featured the Delta Force snipers defending the wreckage of Super 64, in their effort to protect pilot Mike Durant. Lots of work went into the wrecked Black Hawk, and the wreckage strewn around the scene. Very well done, and captures the drama of the moment.

 Nick Infield won Best in Show at the 98 World Expo with his beuatiful shadow box dio, depicting the filming of the last scene in Casablanca, titled "We'll Always Have Paris", complete with forced perspective effects. The plane in the background was of much smaller scale, but positioned in such a way that it just looks like it's in the distance. He also places a translucent screen between it and the foreground scene, so that it's just out of focus, but he covered it with bare metal foil, so that it reflected light. The camera crew, lighting fixtures, boom mic and all the movie making equipment is in there, and director Michael Curtiz sits in hie chair, marked Director, watching Bogie and Bergman acting out the final scene.

 Infield is a cameraman in Hollywood, as his day gig, and many of his larger modeling projects center around the motion picture industry.

I'd post pictures, but they are all in magazines, and I don't know how kosher it would be to put up scans from a  magazine. If anyone's interested, the BHD dio is featured in issue 45 of Historical Miniature Magazine Sept/Oct 04, and the Casablanca dio is in issue 14, Sept/Oct 98 of the same magazine.

 I recall that there's a really nice rendition of the truck from Duel in Shep Paine's book How to Build Military Vehicles. I too have also seen many Saving Private Ryan dios and vignettes.

Nice work on the M47, BTW J-Hulk. That used to drive me nuts how the movies always used Patton tanks or M41s as Germans. When I was a kid, I'd get pissed and say "Why are they shooting? It's just more Americans!".

 Personally, I haven't had the urge to pull a scene from a movie, though I did have a plan to acurately sculpt all seven samurai from The Seven Samurai, but I just haven't had the motivation to do the work, and most people probably aren't familiar enough with that movie to recognize the likeness of the actors.

 I heard that they put up a sculpture of William Wallace in Scotland that was a likeness of Mel Gibson.

As J-Hulk mentioned to me it's Black Hawk Down.

I have this project in mind: a hovering Black Hawk with Rangers rappeling down, a Littlebird delivering Deltas on a rooftop, another Littlebird providing air cover and a Hummer waiting behind a wall to extract the prisoners. The whole thing in 1/35 ... as soon as I buy a residence with a huge hobby room I might do it

The only thing I did until now is find a way to make the Blackhawk hover:

Dioramas of scenes from films are actually quite common. I've seen plenty of models and dioramas of scenes from Kelly's Heroes, Battle of the Bulge, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Full Metal Jacket, and others.

The interesting part of modelling subjects from movies is capturing the often-innacurate aspects of the vehicles used, such as this M47 Patton I built to represent "Hessler's King Tiger R-01" from Battle of the Bulge:

Plenty of modifications were needed to turn Italeri's nice M47 kit into an accurate representation of R-01 as it appears in the film. For me, that's the fun of movie modelling! Making it accurate as per the film. Some rivet-counters balk at this kind of modelling (inaccurate representations of history), but it can be just as accurate in its counting of rivets as any modelling.

The main failing I see in many models and scenes derived from movies is a lack of attention to such details. I've seen plenty of M47 "King Tiger" models from Battle of the Bulge, but I've never seen one that captures all the subtle modifications done to the actual M47s in the film to make them more "Tiger-like." Most models of this vehicle are simply painted German Gray, with Balkenkreuz slapped on. There's much more to it than that!

Of course, it's a hobby, so the individual modeller can build as he/she sees fit (my universal disclaimer!).

Although I believe you were talking about primarily military modelling, for science fiction modelling, of course, pretty much everything is from film or television!