Model Forum / General / Models / January 2008

On Jan 10, 7:45 pm, some...@some.domain wrote:> In article
<13odilhck9nc...@corp.supernews.com>, flan...@daktel.com wrote:> >

Spitfire models tucked in a corner, a> >>> DVD copy of the movie
"Spitfire" playing on a TV with a 21st Century> >>> Toys 1/18th scale
Spitfire suspended over it, and Enzo watching it while> >>> wearing a
RAF pilot's helmet and goggles and making Merlin engine> >>>
noises.) :-D> > >>> Pat> > >> did that movie have david niven and
leslie howard?> > >Yup, also known as "The First Of The Few":> >http://
www.imdb.com/title/tt0034734/> >Keep an eye peeled for it on VHS or
DVD sales tables - it's public> >domain so can be had on the cheap.>

tape.> >The films of the Supermarine seaplane racers in it are very
interesting;> >boy, were those things streamlined.> > >Pat> > i
actually have a vhs of the spitfire movie somewhere in the pile.> i
love dambusters, especially the high tech, big money flak tracers they
did> by making scratches on the film. and that classy pencil thick
outline> superimposition of plane-upon-background. they must have
spent MANY thousands> of pennies on those special effects.> my revell
dambuster kit would have been more realistic, but outside of the> buck
ninety eight they spent on production vlaues, it was pretty accurate.
the> story line, i mean- Hide quoted text -> > - Show quoted text -
Slightly OT: Don't have any Spitfire Ale, but I have a bottle of Rare
Beer! Can't have alcohol, so it stays unopened.The home brewer was
named Tom Young, so you know it must be great beer!  :-)Tom

That was the state-of-the-art at the time.
BTW, that movie and 633 Squadron became the basis for the attack on the
Death Star in  the original Star Wars.
They took the flying down the fjord aspect of 633 Squadron and turned it
into flying down the Death Star trench, and added the AA guns shooting
at the attacking planes from Dambusters and turned the guns into
turbolasers.
In 633 squadron they had to hit a specific spot on a mountainside with
their earthquake bombs; in SW they had to hit a specific point on the
Death Star's surface with their proton torpedoes.
In Dambusters, you knew you were at the right distance from the dam when
it filled the distance between the two vertical nails on the
bombardier's sighting stick; in SW you were ready to fire when the
display in the sighting device in the X-Wings lined up right and the two
vertical lines joined.
Rumor had it that Peter Jackson (who is a major early military aircraft
fan) was going to redo Dambusters, but he says that's not the case. If
they ever do  film it again, they will have to avoid mentioning the real
name of squadron commander Guy Gibson's dog, which is the dread "N"
word. The dog died before the raid, but its name lived on as the radio
codeword for the successful destruction of the Mohne dam.

Sink The Bismarck is also a well done film.

Pat

You've gotta love that line:

Is there any reason the Air Ministry would lend *you* a Wellington?

Barnes Wallis: Well, you might try telling them I designed it!

(kim)