Modelling in modern pop culture

[iamsuperdan]

Just noticed something over the weekend.

I was at the bench, working on a kit or two and had the music going, when I noticed the CD cover.

This album came out late 2019.

[afx]

Interesting.

[StevenGuthmiller]

I love it!!

Mainly because it looks exactly like my shop!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

Edited September 8, 2020 by StevenGuthmiller

[slusher]

Cool!!

[stitchdup]

Thats pretty cool. There's modelling in the last series of agants of shield too, looked to be monogram and revell kits from the early/mid eighties

[OldNYJim]

Posted this elsewhere on the site already - but Tamiya kit-box inspired beer ?

[iamsuperdan]

Whoa! If I saw that in a local liquor store, I'd buy it just for the box. I'm not a big beer drinker, but would make an exception for this.

 

[OldNYJim]

11 minutes ago, iamsuperdan said:

Whoa! If I saw that in a local liquor store, I'd buy it just for the box. I'm not a big beer drinker, but would make an exception for this.

 

I’m the same!  Picked up one just because the box was cool! ?

[Tom Geiger]

1 hour ago, CabDriver said:

I’m the same!  Picked up one just because the box was cool! ?

Tastes like thinner?

[Snake45]

Model airplanes figured prominently in the second season of the hilarious Vice Principals on HBO.

Models (airplanes, spacecraft and ships) showed up a few times on Modern Family. 

[stinkybritches]

Model planes and ships show up from time to time on Masha and the Bear, a Russian childrens cartoon that my son is crazy about. 

[OldNYJim]

6 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

Tastes like thinner?

Insert joke about the can being out of scale, the ring pull being the wrong kind for that year of can and how it’s drinkable but it needs a LOT of work right out of the box to make an acceptable libation ??

[iamsuperdan]

 

[Lunajammer]

Funny and depressing all at once.

[Mike999]

A few off the top of my head...

Revell was always great at product placement, and their kits turn up in a lot of Fifties TV series.  Revell kits were almost always displayed in Wally and Beaver's room in "Leave It To Beaver."  

In the 1953 movie "Niagara" with Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten, he's a troubled war veteran whose therapy includes building a 1/16 scale Revell Maxwell kit. That was an inside joke.  Jack Benny's longtime announcer Don Wilson had a part in the movie, and Benny was famous for talking about his Maxwell. 

The 1990 Jim Belushi movie "Mr. Destiny" had him building some AMT scale models, including a 300SL Gullwing.  He also "built" some kits that didn't exist, AFAIK.  Like this AMT kit of a '55 Porsche Spyder. Note the tube of Testors glue on the table.

Edited September 20, 2020 by Mike999
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[webestang]

On 9/19/2020 at 5:19 PM, iamsuperdan said:

 

That was my nephew.......I even tried a simple snap kit.....nope. 

[webestang]

On 9/20/2020 at 8:04 AM, Mike999 said:

 

The 1990 Jim Belushi movie "Mr. Destiny" had him building some AMT scale models, including a 300SL Gullwing.  He also "built" some kits that didn't exist, AFAIK.  Like this AMT kit of a '55 Porsche Spyder. Note the tube of Testors glue on the table.

I like that movie. 

[PowerPlant]

I just caught Ford vs. Ferrari on HBO and decided to rewatch it...I may be wrong, but it seemed to me like there are a few shots in Ken Miles’ (Chris Bale’s) son’s bedroom in which a car model box can be seen on a shelf in the background. I’m not sure, but it looks like it could be an Aurora E-Type Jag... That would be period correct, no? I would actually appreciate it if someone could confirm this as I did find it interesting and quite an appropriate detail if in fact true (kudos to the production designer for sure).

[thatz4u]

On 9/8/2020 at 7:06 PM, StevenGuthmiller said:

I love it!!

Mainly because it looks exactly like my shop!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

mine too, right after I clean it.....LOL

[Oldcarfan27]

My brother in law worked with a crew that built and performed the train wreck scene in the movie "The Fugitive".

You did know it was a model didn't you?

I've watched the movie many times and still think it's real!

Edited November 5, 2020 by Oldcarfan27

[Oldcarfan27]

Don't forget the Dukes of Hazzard - the later years, when they ran out of real Chargers.

[slusher]

1 hour ago, Oldcarfan27 said:

Don't forget the Dukes of Hazzard - the later years, when they ran out of real Chargers.

I. Had no idea.. they did total a bunch of Chargers..

[Joe Handley]

14 minutes ago, slusher said:

I. Had no idea.. they did total a bunch of Chargers..

If you watch The Fall Guy and Knight Rider, it happened there some too.

[Goose1957]

22 hours ago, Oldcarfan27 said:

My brother in law worked with a crew that built and performed the train wreck scene in the movie "The Fugitive".

You did know it was a model didn't you?

I've watched the movie many times and still think it's real!

They did crash a real train. Somewhere in the junk pile, I have the issue of Trains magazine where they went to the real shortline railroad I think in Tennessee (going on 20 year old memories) and showed the remains of the staged wreck along the rail line for the tourist trains to see. Maybe some of the scenes were miniatures, but real locomotives and cars were used also. Now I have to search my junkpile.

Jeff 

Quick edit, Google search turned up Great Smokey Mountains Railroad at Sylva, North Carolina . Photos of the wreckage still there to this day, rusting away.

Edited November 6, 2020 by Goose1957
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[Oldcarfan27]

The initial crash, aftermath and cleanup in the movie were real trains and buses, but the train chasing Harrison Ford was a model.

BTW, the trains and buses are still located exactly where they left them - in North Carolina!