Lets go to the movies!

[Mossie]

Cheers Goober, I guess I could a find a donor kit for my Dreamstar in that timescale!

[Runway ? ...]

Popular fiction?  Falcon Squadron !   JOHNNY RED !!!

I thought it first    

[Runway ? ...]

There has to ba a 262 in one of the suckers it's far to cool for them to have missed it out. I've just spotted the Halifax with the big antishipping bomb from #393    

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

If it's Commando comics then:
Gloster Meteor F1/F3 from  "Death of the Cobra" (already done the Cobra's Fw 190D)
He 162s from "The Jets from Nowhere"
I know there's an Me 262 one, I just can't remember the title.

One of the first ones I read back when I was aroun 10 years old was called 'The Black Wolves' and featured a squadron of Martin Marauders who were being hacked down by......

......wait for it


a squadron of black-painted Focke Wulf's...... see what they did there , clever, no

There was also a story - cannot recall the title of two Grand Prix drivers who became fighter pilots and painted their respective aircraft:

British Racing Green - Spit MkI
German Wite - Bf109E - although I always thought that the national 'colour' adopted by the German pre-war GP team was painted aluminium, I'm quite prepared to be wrong on this one ! :dum:

Ian

[rallymodeller]

British Racing Green - Spit MkI
German Wite - Bf109E - although I always thought that the national 'colour' adopted by the German pre-war GP team was painted aluminium, I'm quite prepared to be wrong on this one ! :dum:

Ian

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The German national racing colour was indeed white. The silver on the prewar Mercedes-Benz and Auto-Union GP cars came from the racing formula then in place -- the maximum weight limit was 750kg. Auto-Union found themselves slightly over the weight limit, so they stripped the paint off their cars and polished the bare metal. Rudy Neubauer of the Mercedes team liked the look so much when he saw it that he ordered his team to do likewise. Thus were born the Silver Arrows...
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[Aircav]

Dick Dastardly    

[lancer]

No it was a specific Me 262 one and one of the more recent "PC" ones with the characters all Germans.  It was one of my favourites and one bit I remember was the main character shooting down a Ju 352 in Red Cross markings (it was carrying a load of fleeing Nazi industrialists).

There were loads with Me 262s but that one sticks in my head.  I just can't remember the title.

Found it - Jet Pilot.

Now to start digging in the loft...

I remember reading that one a couple of months ago.

[Blacklion213]

do viedo games count?

[gooberliberation]

do viedo games count?

Absolutely.

[Chap]

Some more examples that could be used for inspiration:
-T-6 Texan/ Harvard made to look like a Fokker D.XXI (Soldier of Orange)
-Tiger moth made to look like an Albatross C.II (Laurence of Arabia)
-Tiger moth made to look like a de Havilland DH.4 (The Blue Max)
-Pilatus P-2 painted to look like a German fighter (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)

~Steve

[jcf]

British Racing Green - Spit MkI
German Wite - Bf109E - although I always thought that the national 'colour' adopted by the German pre-war GP team was painted aluminium, I'm quite prepared to be wrong on this one ! :dum:

Ian

<Temporary Thread Redirect>
The German national racing colour was indeed white. The silver on the prewar Mercedes-Benz and Auto-Union GP cars came from the racing formula then in place -- the maximum weight limit was 750kg. Auto-Union found themselves slightly over the weight limit, so they stripped the paint off their cars and polished the bare metal. Rudy Neubauer of the Mercedes team liked the look so much when he saw it that he ordered his team to do likewise. Thus were born the Silver Arrows...
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Err, almost.
The Auto-Union cars were always silver, it was the M-B cars that came in overweight it was then that Neubauer claims that he came up with the notion to strip the paint, inspired by a comment from the driver von Brauchitsch: " You had better come up with one of your tricks,' said von Brauchitsch, 'otherwise we will be the painted ones...". To be 'the painted ones' is a colloquial German expression meaning to have bad luck. Others involved, including von Brauchitsch, didn't recall it happening exactly that way. The driver Hermann Lang thinks the idea may have originated with the mechanics, anyhow he further goes on to state the white paint probably wasn't the cause of the weight problem, rather it was more likely the extensive amount of body filler that had been applied to smooth out the hand-hammered aluminum bodies before they were primed and painted. The cars were stripped of the white paint and filler and then painted with a thin layer of aluminum paint. From that point on both companies cars were silver.

Info from 'Racing the Silver Arrows: Mercedes-Benz versus Auto Union 1934-1939' by Chris Nixon

Jon

[Spey_Phantom]

"Holy thread revival, Batman"
-Robin

just thought this line would be fitting by adding a new idea to this thread for the proposed Group Build.
here are some more whiffs to be build 

The Batcopter (converted Bell-47 from the 1966 Batman movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0UJaprpxrk

[The Rat]

"Holy thread revival, Batman"
-Robin

just thought this line would be fitting by adding a new idea to this thread for the proposed Group Build.
here are some more whiffs to be build 

The Batcopter (converted Bell-47 from the 1966 Batman movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0UJaprpxrk

The bomb disposal scene in that film is absolutely hilarious, worth the price of admission all by itself!

[philp]

Anyone got the landing struts off the 1/35th scale MRC kit they don't need?  I have the Revell kit and a conversion set (with wings) but need the correct struct style and scratchbuilding my own is outside my skill level.

Also, looking at a book about the new Indy movie today and it shows a Soviet "Duck" used in one of the chase scenes.  It is actually a US amphibious jeep.  This could be done in 1/35th with the Tamiya kit or 1/72nd with the Academy kit (with the halftrack).

[Archangel]

"Holy thread revival, Batman"
-Robin

just thought this line would be fitting by adding a new idea to this thread for the proposed Group Build.
here are some more whiffs to be build 

The Batcopter (converted Bell-47 from the 1966 Batman movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0UJaprpxrk

Here you go. From last years Wonderfest model contest. I took the picture of the Batcopter.