time to Get out the Grey paint and the Swastika stencils again !!

tigercat · August 24, 2011, 05:29:58 AM

In film & TV you often see bits of kit masquerading as something different to what they actually are from Kelly Heroes lovingly recreated Tiger tanks to the Battle of the Bulge's American half tracks with a coat of grey paint and a swastika.

This would be your chance to create some new examples

i.e.

A FW 190 pretending to be a P47
or a Mk IV tank disguised as a Churchill

Rheged · August 24, 2011, 05:31:58 AM

Could one have an He177 masquerading as an aeroplane?

PR19_Kit · August 24, 2011, 06:33:22 AM

Quote from: Rheged on August 24, 2011, 05:31:58 AM
Could one have an He177 masquerading as an aeroplane?

Now that's just silly. You KNOW it would never work...........

NARSES2 · August 24, 2011, 07:15:22 AM

Quote from: Rheged on August 24, 2011, 05:31:58 AM
Could one have an He177 masquerading as an aeroplane?

Now go and stand at the back of the classroom and face the wall - stupid boy

Rheged · August 24, 2011, 07:22:28 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 24, 2011, 06:33:22 AM
Quote from: Rheged on August 24, 2011, 05:31:58 AM
Could one have an He177 masquerading as an aeroplane?

Now that's just silly. You KNOW it would never work...........

I wasn't thinking of it actually becoming airborne, just dressing the film set. If it was started up, it could provide facilities for the camera crew to warm their hands by the flames.

tigercat · August 24, 2011, 08:11:25 AM

as long as you could provide scale marshmallows for them.

Taiidantomcat · August 24, 2011, 10:02:16 AM

Could be a fun idea... aggressors would count by default wouldn't they?

tigercat · August 24, 2011, 01:01:24 PM

yup

so Harriers pretending to be Yak 38's and vice versa.
or Fxxx's pretending to be Mig something or others would be a shoe in

beowulf · August 24, 2011, 03:02:27 PM

most obvious one i can think of is the puma/hind from the rambo movies

arkon · August 24, 2011, 04:56:48 PM

i think the better hind is the one from Red Dawn. had lots of other whiffed american to ruskie vehicles also.

PR19_Kit · August 25, 2011, 02:40:55 AM

There's the classic case in 'Dr Strangelove' where the B-52 is tracking in low to clobber 'them daaam Ruuuskies' and the shadow underneath it is a B-17.

Not sure how you'd model that though........

tigercat · August 25, 2011, 04:05:06 AM

a common tactic seems to be to hang as much kit as possible off the vehicle to disguise the fact that it's not what it's meant to be. So you have trucks with coils of wire and bedrolls festooning the bonnet.

maybe someone could employ the same tactic but with an aircraft.

Rheged · August 25, 2011, 04:45:55 AM

Would a Ju 86 serve as an ersatz Whitley ? As I recall, their noses do look vaguely similar.

One of the Bond films had a good old fashioned class 20 diesel loco masquerading as something Soviet Russian.....but Kit probably knows more about class 20s than I do.

PR19_Kit · August 25, 2011, 06:59:21 AM

Quote from: Rheged on August 25, 2011, 04:45:55 AM
One of the Bond films had a good old fashioned class 20 diesel loco masquerading as something Soviet Russian.....but Kit probably knows more about class 20s than I do.

Perish the thought!

Class 20s made a good scource for many foreign locos due to their 'hood and cab' configuration. I've seen two of them in Southern Pacific colours in a film somewhere, purporting to be SD40T-2s for goodness sake!

McColm · August 26, 2011, 05:47:36 AM

In one of the Bond movies a C-130 was painted to look like An-12 Cub.