"This is genius: Battle of Britain movie in 1/72" Topic

youtu.be/bTa8xEGv_RE

Must have taken for ever!

Do we recognise all the models?

That was awesome! Great little video!

That was pretty cool.

This is brilliant particularly if you saw the original film.

Almost as entertaining as the original movie.

OMG! That was so much fun. But, the German models were wrong (for the movie).

Genius.
We've all wanted to do some like that, for at least 15 seconds. Then we realized how unrealistic that was.

So, I just flew my biplanes around making humming noises.

Loved that! After a very stressful night it was a great relax at 0700. Damn Good Show, all you little Airfix Chaps!

And, of course, 'The Battle Of Britain' movie…for all its flaws, CAN never be bettered.

Bloody brilliant

Bloody marvellous!!

Italeri Heinkels I think, really good kits.

Might be Tamiya Spits and Hurris?

Talk about a lot of work. Truly a labor of love. Thanks for the find.

Just Awsome, superb.

I'm not sure who makes them but here you can see that the maker used Spitfire kits with the markings of two different squadrons:

youtu.be/bTa8xEGv_RE?t=359

AZ@H is Airfix's 234 Squadron Mark 1a, but JT@T was a Defiant nightfighter squadron. I wonder if the builder had two Airfix Spitfires and applied spare Defiant markings to one so they wouldn't be identical.

Loving the comments:

"Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie."

:-p

Very good

OH MY GAWD!

I swear this made me feel the same powerful emotions of my first experience of the film upon original release.

How many months--if not years--did this require?!

So very closely a reenactment of the film in so many ways.

Not a complaint at all, but the Me-110 appearing in this film was, I'm confidant, not available in any form for the movie, though quite understandably.

I could wish any surviving members of the cast and crew could see this homage to their efforts.

Bravo, Maestro!

TVAG

Strange but true re the original film: the original score by Sir William Walton was totally binned, apart from the 'Battle in the Air' track which plays over the Eagle Day combat montage.

Ron Goodwin's replacement score featured a rousing, upbeat 'Luftwaffe March', sounding quite Horst-Wessel-y, which was such a popular number among brass bands and the like that later reissues of the soundtrack renamed it 'Aces High' because it was so embarrassing for them to play it under its original title…

'That's a nice tune the band is playing. What's it called?'
'Er…the Luftwaffe March.'

Hear it here. Would make a wonderful ring tone:
youtu.be/NHxADv7pzZ0?t=83

That is fantastic. Only issue is Goering figure should have been waaaaay fatter.

First time I have seen those 1/72nd Arifix Luftwaffe ground crew being used for anything.

Kind of related…the command centre is now a paintball centre beside the M5 near Exter.

Adding my voice to the chorus of praises. In a word, simply astounding. Bravo!

Me too. Very enjoyable. My only complaint is that it puts too much emphasis on the Spitfire and not enough on the Hurricane.

"Never in the field of aerial modelling has so much pointless effort been expended to so much childish pleasure …"

Bloody impressive, though.

"any surviving members of the cast"

Good point

Well Christopher Plummer and Michael Caine are still going strong and filming to this day. "Rabbit Leader to Foxtrot Control" and "Help yourselves boys, thar's no fiter (he has a Canadian accent) escort". They don't write it like that any more.

Now, The Longest Day. With Sean Connery gone…not too many survivors there. I can't think of one top billing.

Of course I had to look deadhead. Guess depends on what you consider biggies of course but only "premier" actors from The Longest Day I could find still alive are George Segal and Robert Wagner.

And for Battle of Britain lets not forget Ian McShane who also still going strong.

Pity they didn't include the Susannah York scenes :-) …
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though whether there's a Mr Warwick figure in 1/72, I'm not sure

BoB cast still going that I know of:

Edward Fox, David Griffin, James Cosmo & Maureen Lipman. I believe Karl Otto Alberty is also still with us.

@ fozman

Yes, lack of imagination there. They could have switched to using Barbie and Ken for those scenes, then gone back to 1/72 for the aerial combat.

I must say I am well impressed at that footage as it was, for me, a trip down Memory Lane.
My old club, Harold Wood Wargamers was one that pioneered British aerial wargaming in the early 1970s and into the 80s.

The former Romford Wargames club had used WW1 1/72 Airfix and Revell kits mounted on to long strips of Meccano. The aircraft moved up and down the strip to simulate diving and climbing with a matchstick put into the hole to stop it falling down again. Cardboard turning circles and tape measures for linear movement and percentage dice for hits. This is, of course, long before Wings of Glory.

Once we moved to the Harold Wood building there was a scale-up to using three-foot high dowel rod (instead of Meccano) for WW1, and then for WW2. We eventually scaled up to six-foot poles for the Korean War. We did Pacific WW2, Battle of Britain and even the bombing of Germany. My badly battered B-24 was once the sole survivor as the four B-17s I had flown with all went down blazing.

Club specials were "633 Squadron" and "The Bridges of Toko-Ri" with the club floor being gridded off into one foot squares and random numbers used to determine which square the flak was bursting in this move.

I remain the undefeated North Korean ace (5 Sabres and an F-80 Shooting Star) but my seven kills Battle of Britain Hurricane pilot eventually went down blazing after a close-range run-in with a cannon-armed Bf 110. We diced for it but after three moves of attempting to open my cockpit canopy it was judged to be fatally jammed and I died!

Great games!

Barry

Meanwhile:

This is MY favourite YouTube Battle of Britain footage:

YouTube link

Deep joy!

Barry