ROFLMAO!!

There was somewhat of a negative usage of models on the new show "Joan of Arcadia". Her brother (recently) handicapped is spending all his time building models and at one point his father says something along the lines of "this is for kids!". Her brother is 18 or 19 I think. By the end of that episode he has started working on a small boat which his father will help him with. I guess the writers felt a large boat (kit) is more "adult" because they could both work on it together.

Lol...

Jim

as far as i remember in "TOP GUN" someday in the class Tom Cruise is using a model F-18 or something under the nose of ICEMAN .Chip should remember better. And also in "Wargames" there was some model stuff and a remote control somethinsaurus bird flown by the weird scientist

In one episode of 'Dharma and Greg', Greg is building a 1/350 Tamiya Missouri. He spends a lot of time building a captain and his chair, but his buddy helping him build it has already glued the bridge together.

I recollect an episode of Crossing Jordan that featured a model builder. The modeler was a suspect in the bombing of a federal building. One of the forensic guys twigged that moelers sometimes use aluminum powders and that would account for their finding the same substance on the modeler's hands. The police of course, thought the aluminum powder came from explosives. The modeler was exhonerated in the end.

i was in a model shop in central London last year when a charming young lady asked me if a young boy in the 50's would build this kit ,she held up a academy f16 or something, "no love maybe a Spitfire or Hurricane " came my smooth reply she then informed me she was researching for a film starring Ewan Mcgregor "does that make me a technial advisor" I asked visions of hollywood in my head she gave me an enigmatic smile picked up a spitfire kit and left. cant remember the nameof the film for the life of me must have flopped.

Since she didn't pay you as a 'technical advisor' you should have suggested the F-16- and at least you would have generated a 'buzz' for her film, at least in the modeling community.

I mentioned earlier Stephen King's Pet Semetary. I now remember he also included modeling in Salem's Lot. The kid who survived built all the old Aurora monster models. One scene in the book a vampire kid comes to visit him, and he breaks off a glow in the dark cross gravestone from one of his models and uses it to hold back the vampire.

Peter

Swarhzkopf hair styling produckts got an little clip on tv about there new super strong gel that the father of some boy is jusing for his plastic model plane. The boy is looking for it and takes it from his dad with his bad hairstyle.

In Garfield,a few years back,John the human was building a ship model.Garfield narrated as John built .
Along the lines of he makes a mess,throws the model ,and it assemlbes itself ...

I just remembered in the Tom Hanks movie Big there is a battle ship on the window sill.. I don't know what ship it is I have no knowledge on warships. The girl goes over and touches it and Tom says something along the lines of "don't touch please it's still drying!"

In the movie The Hot Chick (IIRC, I watch too many movies for my own good ) the father builds model planes and is too involved in them to care about anything else. #:-)

In my case, involuntarily, but yet anther example of life imitating art (or vice versa) #:-)

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Didja ever try to build the Cutty Sark after a fifth of "Cutty Sark"?

DOH!!!! How could I forget!!! In Star Wars:A New Hope, Luke plays with a model of a T-16 Skyhopper.

It's Father's Day. Mojo Jojo goes to his local hobby shop because he wants to build a model ship in honor of his late Admiral dad. He starts destroying The City of Townsville because the shop did not have the kit he wanted

Been there, done that.

in an episode of bottom, eddie hitler is seen building a kit, as the scene goes on it turns out to be two kits, i think a spitfire fuselage with possibly lancaster wings

Then there's the Simpsons episode where Homer breaks his jaw. In one scene Homer and Bart are building a model together. Bart builds one side as an airplane and Home the other side as a ship.

and,
-if not executed correctly, your fingers can become stuck (together)
-must be done in a well ventilated area
-some may find that the use of a magnification device is needed
-if your not careful, you'll get it all over the place
-additional supplies can be found at "speciality shops"
-your wife dosen't have to participate
-you don't let your kids watch
-there are magazines designed for doing "it"
-your friends look at you weird when you talk about it
and, last, but not least...
-there are websites devoted to the discussion of it

kglack

#:-) In an episode of the British Sit-com "As Time Goes By" the main character, Lionel, gets bored and starts to build an Airfix pirate ship. Turns out he doesn't have the patience for that either! We are not ALL NUTS.....Most of us...but not all!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jeff

In the old British spy movie "Callan" staring Edward Woodward (a spin-off from the 60's TV series of the same name), the Callan character gets close to an assignation target via his interest in war-gaming. I belive they were fighting some ACW battle, possably Geytysburg.

Very witty Kglack...

I'm reserecting this thread because there has been a run on models on TV in the last two weeks.

Last week on Law and Order Criminal Intent a wife tried to frame her husband for her own murder. The plot involved supposedly her destroying one of his wooden ship models, which would have given him a reason to kill her. I couldn't tell but they looked like they might have been hand carved. (Aside to the wifes out there, this seemed perfectly possible, that a man would kill a wife who destroyed one of his models. I'd watch out ladies.)

Over the last few weeks there has been a sub-plot on ER concerning a character played by Bob Newhart. He was supposed to be a builder of architectural models who also did American Civil War figures. The pretty lady doctor who was helping them called his models "beautifull" so there is hope for us all. Problem is he wound up killing himself when his eye sight got so bad he couldn't see well enough to keep modeling.

Finally my daughter told me that on American Dreams tonight the younger brother of the main character was building some "tank" (my daughter probably couldn't tell a tank from a APC, or a softtskin) and needed, to quote my daughter, "that olive drab, or whatever you can that stupid color, paint."

Three in one week, none particulary flattering.

The kid had parts strewn all over the floor and his sister complains of that and that he'llhave plenty of tie to complete it in the hospital. He's looking at the hull with motorizatio holes, so it was probalbly an older Tamiya or Tamiya clone. In the half second or so that the hull was on the screen, it appeared to have a more or less rounded bottom, so I'm guessing M48 or M60. One more anachronism in this show that has no sense of time. (I saw about 10 minutes while we were having a light meal before retreating to the computer room. I get too PO'd at the inability of the writers to keep the music to the same year, so I let my wife watch it by herself. Life is much more peaceful that way!)

Another Simpson's episode, Homer makes a crack about someone making "award winnig dioramas". I stopped watching. I just hope one day I win an award for a diorama.

Sealhead (Kansas Sunflower)