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Yeah, but Herr Dr. Krankenstein is a total artist when it comes to weathering techniques. I wouldn't even come close if I tried.

I can vouch for the modelling bit. My nephew is big into Warhammer and often buys sets with dozens of figures in them. All need to be painstakingly assembled and painted. No mean feat given how small they are. This also reminds me of the movie "Ronin", where the character played by Michael Lonsdale (I think Jean-Pierre) builds a what appears to be 00 scale diorama with an army of Samurai warriors.

Could well have been one of his own. Jerry Seinfeld is a car modeller.

Both H. B. Halicki movies prominently show many model cars from his collection.

- In the movie Diva (by Jean-Jacques Beineix) the main protagonist's best friend is seen building a model airplane, and there are literally hundreds of built ones in his room. They occupy every level surface and lots and lots of them are dangling from the ceiling. - Need I mention Gerry Anderson? There are so many kit-based model cars in his movies, that there is a base model kit spotters site out there somewhere. - There are loads of model cars in the old Godzilla (and most other Japanese SciFi Monster) flicks. - In Steve McQueen's last movie 'The Hunter', Ralph "Papa" Thorson, who is played by McQueen, is a collector of vintage toys, some cars among them.

And a massive THANK YOU goes to Kevin, for an excellent service!

Frank still collects 1:43rd models, and his fellow band member Billy Gibbons is known to build plastic kits. Other avid car modellers are Jay Leno, Nick Mason, and Jerry Seinfeld. David Bowie and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl enjoy railway modelling, so does Peter Waterman, who now has his own model railway company. Other celebrities who are into railway modelling are (or were) Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr, Claude Bolling, Tom Brokow, Yul Brynner, Billy Butterfield, Roy Campanella, Johnny Cash, Gary Coleman, Phil Collins, Kevin Costner, Richard Crenna, Roger Daltrey, Joe DiMaggio, Walt Disney, James Doohan, Ed Dougherty, Arthur Godfrey, Hermann Göring, Whoopi Goldberg, Rick Green, Michael Gross, Merle Haggard, Tom Hanks, David Hasselhoff, Tommy Hunter, Elton John, Michael Jordan, Gil Melle, Roger Miller, Vaughn Monroe, Mandy Patinkin, Ricardo Patrese, John Pertwee, Sam Posey, Sally Jesse Raphael, Joe Regalbuto, Lionel Ritchie, Jim Scancarelli (photos of his layout are featured in the Walthers catalog), Rick Schroder, Frank Sinatra, Tom Snyder, Bruce Springsteen, Patrick Stewart, Danny Sullivan, Donald Sutherland, Mel Torme (On his divorce, he said "I prefer my trains to my wife") and Neil Young, who is part owner of Lionel Trains, tours with a Lionel layout in a trailer.

There is an episode of Rockford's Files, where one of the baddies builds an AMT '68 Shelby Mustang while they hide out in a motel room.

You know what would be nice? A model kits in movies thread.

It depends on what you are doing. A friend of mine is a carpenter making bespoke furniture. He uses trigonometry on a daily basis.

I constantly run into situations where I need all of this, and more. If somebody makes a false claim and insists on it, I can say: Hey, buddy, lissen, I have studied mathematics, ya bugger! Needless to say that in real life my Ph. D. in physics doesn't even enable me to help my daughter with her physics homework.

Is a Dollar still a Dollar in 1:25th scale?

That moon landing is the first major event I can conciously remember watching - also on a small B&W telly. I was five. Next thing was watching Star Trek on the same TV, of course in B&W as well. Then we visited my grandparents, who already had a colour TV, and for the first time ever, I saw Star Trek in colour. I was so disappointed.

I get it.... Engineer: The glass is neither half full, nor half empty. It is over dimensioned by the factor of 2 of it's optimal efficiency. Physicist: The glass is 1/2 x (glass full - glass empty) which means: The glass is neither half full, nor half empty. It is a superposition of two different states, that is, half full and half empty. Randomly measuring the liquid in the glass revealed that half of the time it was found that the glass was half full, and half of the time it was found that the glass was half empty. This is the most accurate result the examined scenario allows. Now dump the water and hand me the Scotch.

That is correct. But a 10 gal cube is not ten times wider, longer, and higher, than a 1 gal cube. If you put a layer of gallon cubes on a pallet, ten wide, ten deep, you already have 100 gallons. Stack those ten high, and you end up with 1,000 gallons, i.e. 8,000 pounds. Argumentum e contrario: A 1000 gallon tank truck weighing 8,000 pounds would be a 1 gallon tank truck weighing 8 pounds in 1:10 scale. In 1:25 scale, it would be an 8.195 ounces tank truck weighing 0.512 pounds

These: were expensive.

There are no variables whatsoever. If the real tank weighs 35 metric tons, it's scale weight in 1/35 is 0.81 kg or 1.78 lbs if you prefer old money.

Correct. It wouldn't weigh 1 pound. It would weigh (1/25th ft x 1/25th ft x 1/25th ft) x 25 pounds. And that's 0.0016 pounds. For more realistic figures: A cu ft of steel really weighs 490 pounds. A cube 1/25th it's size would be 0.48 in x 0.48 in x 0.48 in. A cube with less than half an inch edge length doesn't weigh 1/25th x 490 pounds, i.e. 19.6 pounds. It weighs (1/25th ft x 1/25th ft x 1/25th ft) x 490 pounds. And that's 0.03 pounds, roughly 14 grams.

Donk?

Rules are rules and there is nothing snobbish or elitist about them.

That Stude gasser of your's is just way too kewl. Has it gotten any further yet?

Add the weight of the Dixie flag decal on the roof and the entire calculation is out of the window.