Models from Movies

[greybeard]

Guess we should start with "Kelly's Heroes", specifically the Tiger built on the T-34 hull. Oddball's Shermans were quite unique, too, with the loudspeakers and pink paint splats.

Same technique was used in "Band of Brothers", IIRC. That movie also had a bunch of "runners", including Marder III H and some StuGs, and I think a Hetzer.

"Saving Private Ryan" also had some good-looking vehicles, runners and some mock-ups.

I remember "Slaughterhouse Five" had some postwar Czech-built SdKfz 251s, forget the proper designation, but that was the first i'd heard of them.

Then there's "Rat Patrol", with the famous Jeep and phony "German" M3 ½-tracks.

M48s and M24s from "Battle of the Bulge" — wouldn't need a vast library for those! That movie was a hoot! Only Hollywood could turn Nevada into the Ardennes!

I saw Russian movie "Cuckoo" (Кукушка) recently. There was a GAZ-67 prominent in the early scenes. "Come and See" (Иди и смотри) had some good replicas/runners, too.

What other movies are there with modellable vehicles?

Cheers
Scott Fraser

[Gopher]

"Liberation" (Освобождение) - five films about Great Patriotic War with a lots of replicas and runners - more than 10 tigers in one scene in Kursk battle.

[james84]

I've seen a very beautiful film about the D-Day, whose Italian title is "The Longest Day".
It is a very accurate depiction of all the events running around the Normandy landing and the vehicles are very accurate. For example, one of the scenes after the initial battle shows a sherman with a wading device.

[agtquimi]

- M48s and M24s from "Battle of the Bulge" — wouldn't need a vast library for those! That movie was a hoot! Only Hollywood could turn Nevada into the Ardennes!

I think that those tanks were from the spanish army, and the film was done in the proximity of Madrid, not Nevada (that means something covered of snow in spanish)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge_(film)

Another good rusian film "Zvezda" in spanish "Zvezda: Estrella señal de socorro" - in english "The Star" (I guess) good T-34-85 (post war of course) and Tiger mockup runners

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvezda_(film)

Peckimpack's "The Iron Cross" (or something like this) - T-35-85 and some trucks - The same in Vilsmaier's "Stalingrad"

"Enemy at the gates" - some Panzer III runner mockups (I think, my memory isn´t what it used to be) and pehaps some T-34

I think in "Tobruk" there are a lot of "made in USA" german equipment, plus a Model battle with some Pz.IV
model kits, I don´t remember if it is in Tobruk or in another similiar film

[mbabsit]

Another would be the Ishermans in Sam Fuller's "The Big Red One." They had one painted sand for the Afrika Korps, and one in a whitewash scheme for the Battle of the Bulge. I am currently doing an Academy kit for the Kasserine pass scene, but am substituting a peaked cap for the commander (the one in the film wore a modern tanker's helmet!).

[greybeard]

A list (not mine) of movies with tanks (http://www.ipmslondon.ca/old%20site/ipmslondon.tripod.com/modelingarticles/id1.html)

[mbabsit]

agtquimi,

"Battle of the Bulge" was shot in Spain, not Nevada.