| richarDISNEY | 13 May 2010 7:48 a.m. PST |
I was watching Ronin a few days ago and the scene where DiNero goes to get the bullet out of him has a guy painting what looks like 54mm figs for a samurai diorama. This got me thinking…
What other movies has some sort of gaming (wargames or rpgs)/minis painting in it?
And NO console/'puter games please. I can think of …
Ronin
E.T. (playing D&D in the beginning)
Murder at 1600 ( Wesley Snipes character has a cool Civil War diorama set up in his apartment) What others are out there that you can think of?
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| Grizwald | 13 May 2010 7:51 a.m. PST |
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| ComradeCommissar | 13 May 2010 7:52 a.m. PST |
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| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 13 May 2010 7:54 a.m. PST |
40 Year Old Virgin. I still hear bout that one. People still tell me that guy is SO me except for the awkwardness with the ledies part, and now that I am not allowed to drive (even biking is a bd idea for me,) well, let's just leave it at that. Besides, I think the comic store is getting some new Iron Man action toys today… |
| Moonbeast | 13 May 2010 8:08 a.m. PST |
Stargate SG1 if a T.V. series counts. |
| Admiral Yi Sun Sin is my Homie | 13 May 2010 8:12 a.m. PST |
God forgive me for bringing this movie up but you asked: The Patriot
First seen at 6:12
YouTube link |
| Pictors Studio | 13 May 2010 9:05 a.m. PST |
There was some 80s cop show that had a diorama in it but I forget which one it was now. |
| ming31 | 13 May 2010 9:46 a.m. PST |
3 days of the Condor , the hit man was painting mini's in his hotel while listening to opera .
the Diorama was from Columbo I think |
| GreyONE | 13 May 2010 10:31 a.m. PST |
James Bond: The Living Daylights A few of my friends were hired to make the wargame tables and paint the miniatures for the wargame tables that appear in this film. Each table depicts a battle. The character, "Brad Whitaker" (played by Joe Don Baker) is an American arms dealer with a lust for military history and money. My friends were not given any details of the film, nor the name of the film that the tables and miniatures were to be used, but after filming, were allowed to keep everything. They constructed these props in 1986. They each took one table and miniatures for the battle depicted on the table. Probably a wargamer's dream come true: Being paid to making several 3D tables and being supp;lied with miniatures, painting the miniatures, and then getting to keep everything at the end. How could your girl friend or wife refuse? (actually, my old girl friend would take issue with this… no matter what, she'd find an angle). |
| (Phil Dutre) | 13 May 2010 10:55 a.m. PST |
The Oxford Murders – a few seconds of a large wargaming table in the office of Ian McKellan as an Oxford Don. Mazes & Monsters -- an 80s D&D movie starring a very young Tom Hanks. |
| Steve Hazuka | 13 May 2010 11:50 a.m. PST |
In ER Bob Newhart had an impressive collection that he painted but was going blind. |
 KimRYoung  | 13 May 2010 12:05 p.m. PST |
Goldfinger, where he obviously had set up, planned and gamed out the dawn raid on Ft. Knox in miniature. FYI – the original model for the movie is on display at the Patton Armor Museum at Fort Knox if you ever pay a visit. Kim |
| jfleisher | 13 May 2010 12:51 p.m. PST |
Which SG-1 episode was it? |
Coyote  | 13 May 2010 1:24 p.m. PST |
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles has a android painting miniatures as it passes through a child-like phase. |
| thosmoss | 13 May 2010 1:29 p.m. PST |
"The Final Countdown" featured a couple Navy guys in the cafeteria playing Squad Leader … |
| NWMike | 13 May 2010 1:39 p.m. PST |
The English TV show "New Tricks" has a character who is a "reformed" wargamer. |
| evilgong | 13 May 2010 2:16 p.m. PST |
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 Stosstruppen | 13 May 2010 3:14 p.m. PST |
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| Stosstruppen | 13 May 2010 3:14 p.m. PST |
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| darthfozzywig | 13 May 2010 3:40 p.m. PST |
Minis-related: Enemy of the State has Wil Smith's son reading a White Dwarf magazine. |
| Moonbeast | 13 May 2010 5:29 p.m. PST |
Season 6, vol. 2, episode 8 "The Other Guys". One of the geeky scientists (Jay if I remember correctly) is painting figures for his Stargate diorama in his apartment. |
| Chocolate | 13 May 2010 5:56 p.m. PST |
My Kingdom for a Horse
UK TV drama Sean Bean, plays a geeky school teacher that wargames and does ECW re-enactments |
| GreyONE | 14 May 2010 3:48 a.m. PST |
Actor Bill Murray stated: "This is Bob, he paints miniatures and he is gay" (from the movie: Ground Hog Day; I am guessing the name, "Bob" as I cannot remember the actual name of the character in the film). |
| Gunfreak | 14 May 2010 4:23 a.m. PST |
"Season 6, vol. 2, episode 8 "The Other Guys". One of the geeky scientists (Jay if I remember correctly) is painting figures for his Stargate diorama in his apartment.
" No it is actualy episode 9 of season 7. Called Avenger 2.0 In other guys they just run around Gua'uld motherships ect. |
| lutonjames | 14 May 2010 9:23 a.m. PST |
At the end of SLC Punk (when looking back to when they teenagers)the main characters are playing D&D. |
| Hexxenhammer | 14 May 2010 9:27 a.m. PST |
Who makes the minis the french dude with the awesome beard is painting in Ronin? Are they bigger than 28mm? |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 14 May 2010 10:24 a.m. PST |
There was an episode of Simon and Simon, but I don't remember
which one. There was also a 70s British show where the hero was playing a Miniatures game by mail. |
| DS6151 | 07 Jun 2010 5:45 a.m. PST |
DS9. The Doctor and Chief have a 1/72 scale Alamo dio they use to figure stratagies before trying them out in the holodeck. |
| Daffy Doug | 07 Jun 2010 9:58 a.m. PST |
imdb.com/title/tt0059749 no painting per se, but the perv got his minis from somewhere. The "bad guys" throw him down on top of his gaming table on top of his minis – made me wince…. |
| Nick Pasha | 23 Oct 2017 1:46 p.m. PST |
Three days of the condor. Max Von Sydow character paints miniatures to relax. |
| Great War Ace | 24 Oct 2017 8:06 p.m. PST |
Spy Who Came In From The Cold, the creep who assaults the girl gets slammed down on his wargames table, crushing a bunch of bowmen. It really is an esoteric scene, and practically all I remember of the film. imdb.com/title/tt0059749 Cloak and Dagger of course, is all about RPG, "Jack Flack" (Dabney Coleman), the little kid's spy alter ego for his father. link Unicorn City is all about gaming, both D&D and Larping. link |
| Great War Ace | 24 Oct 2017 8:08 p.m. PST |
I've been Necroed! Spy Who Came In From The Cold, two posts above mine, is mine. Should there be some kind of ban on necromancing threads? |
| Great War Ace | 24 Oct 2017 8:10 p.m. PST |
And you (Nick Pasha) committed necromancy on this thread only to offer a movie that was already mentioned by "ming". I guess you don't read threads, do you? ;) |
| Rudysnelson | 25 Oct 2017 6:17 a.m. PST |
TV show but back in the 1980s, the rich evil guy often painted miniatures at his desk in his fancy office. The show was Falcon Crest. |
| Wakefield Warmonger | 26 Oct 2017 1:09 p.m. PST |
My favourite reference to wargaming in fiction is in 'Red Hand For Callan' – Callan thinks about what he might do with his fee as a hit man and thinks about buying wargames figures. Now that's what I call a wargamer! |
| Jefthing | 27 Oct 2017 1:29 p.m. PST |
The IT crowd: Moss hooks some awful alpha male business types into the world of fantasy role playing when Jen fails to provide suitable 'adult' entertainment. It should also be noted that Roy has two or three Matchbox model kits behind his desk in later series. Young Winston: the first real conversation Winston has with his father is over his model soldiers. |
