1/33 Movie faux Zero (AT6 Texan)

**airdave** · #1 07-06-2015, 09:32 PM

As already mentioned in another thread...
a faux Zero from the movie Empire of the Sun.

1987 Steven Spielberg film about a young boy (Christian Bale)
growing up in Shanghai during WW2 (under Japanese occupation).

Model is available now at ecardmodels: 1/33 AT6 T6 Texan - Mitsubishi A6M Zero (Empire of the Sun Movie) Paper Model
I haven't got the listing posted yet at papermodelshop, due to some technical difficulties, but it will be posted soon.

**Don Boose** · #2 07-07-2015, 11:08 AM

Got it! Thanks, Dave. I look forward to the next aircraft in this series.

Don

**airdave** · #3 07-07-2015, 11:21 AM

There's a series?

**Don Boose** · #4 07-07-2015, 11:58 AM

It seems to me that you have designed a series of different kinds and colors of T-6/SNJ/Texan/Harvard aircraft, now including this hybrid. All great stuff. As are the P-51 Mustangs, the Thunderbolts, the Spitfires, the C-130s, the B-24s, the Centurians, and on and on.

Don

**airdave** · #5 07-07-2015, 12:02 PM

oh LOL you mean the series of Texans.

lol
not a series of "faux" Zeros!
or "Christian Bale Movie vehicles"
or "Fake Japanese props by Steven Spielberg"
or "Strawberry Waffles & Green Aircraft"

**Texman** · #6 07-07-2015, 02:01 PM

Hmmmmm, waaffflllles!

**Yale** · #7 07-07-2015, 02:39 PM

There were enough substitutions before computer special effects, that a series of movie models would be possible. Me-108s filled in for Me-109s in The Longest Day and at least one other film. P-51s in German markings fought P-47s in another film. Skyraiders roared over allied ships in The Longest Day. And Spanish Me-109s appeared in The Battle of Britain (their cowlings were different as they had Merlin engines.)

RunwayOneSixRight · #8 07-07-2015, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yale

There were enough substitutions before computer special effects, that a series of movie models would be possible. Me-108s filled in for Me-109s in The Longest Day and at least one other film. P-51s in German markings fought P-47s in another film. Skyraiders roared over allied ships in The Longest Day. And Spanish Me-109s appeared in The Battle of Britain (their cowlings were different as they had Merlin engines.)

I think I remember seeing those Spanish Bf-109's.
There was another movie where they swapped aircraft, I can't remember the name though.

-RunwayOneSixRight (Matthew)

**airdave** · #9 07-07-2015, 03:35 PM

I think a Bf109 made from a Texan will look kinda silly.

RunwayOneSixRight · #10 07-07-2015, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by airdave

I think a Bf109 made from a Texan will look kinda silly.

It would look very silly.
It looks even sillier when tanks are made from others.
The Tiger I in this movie was made from a Russian T-34-85 (and it doesn't look right.
According to the YouTube user "blahhblahh522" (great name) "the tiger in this
movie is a modified t34 to look like a tiger they use this same tank in saving private
ryan and kellys heroes".

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNxgjdoIoxU.
(Still don't know how to embed videos on this forum).

-RunwayOneSixRight (Matthew)