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Title: a different type of Zero.
Post by: Glenn on September 13, 2008, 12:48:46 AM
500 feet above the Hawai'ian islands, a lone Zero awaits orders to attack. Close to one of the islands below, two boats speed along...one awaiting orders, the other giving them.
Suddenly, the clapper board is closed, with a voice..." Scene 37...Take 5..........Action!"
The Zero goes into a shallow dive and lines up with the two bombers and escorts them into the scene.
A behind the scenes look from the movie, "PT-109" maybe!
Model : HobbyBoss T-6 and a little help from PhotoShop.
Glenn
Title: Re: a different type of Zero.
Post by: Brian da Basher on September 13, 2008, 03:00:52 AM
Tora tora tora dis!!!!!

Nice one, Glenn!
:thumbsup:
Brian da Basher
Title: Re: a different type of Zero.
Post by: cthulhu77 on September 13, 2008, 07:15:08 AM
That brought a grin to my face !  Nice work, Glenn...you have the photoshop thing down to a science !
Title: Re: a different type of Zero.
Post by: RotorheadTX on September 13, 2008, 07:26:40 AM
 :banghead: WEASEL!! :banghead:

(I'm working up the same thing, just using the Academy kit.  :thumbsup:
One of the CAF's Tora Tora Tora birds is kept at an airport about 30 miles from my home.
Nothing better than having access to the real article!!! )
Title: Re: a different type of Zero.
Post by: K5054NZ on September 13, 2008, 02:50:20 PM
 ;D Very very cool! Mind you, wouldn't it be SUPERcool if someone did a full Tora Tora Tora conversion on a kit? Ya know - new canopy, three-blade prop, modded tail and wings? :mellow:





Oh, hang on a sec! http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/mod/yatest6m.htm (http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/mod/yatest6m.htm)
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi15.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa388%2FZacYates%2Fyatest6mb.jpg&hash=4777d653d42654c3d41adbeaca469d12d3046b45)

:thumbsup: :rolleyes:

How does the Hobby Boss kit build? I'm seriously considering picking one up for another, FICTITIOUS movie conversion.....unless some of you remember the 1973 movie Dauntless Squadron?
Title: Re: a different type of Zero.
Post by: Glenn on September 14, 2008, 12:59:01 AM
Zac, the model is built with a small number of parts...the fuselage is one piece with the cockpit seats being glued to the wing, and slotted in place. Detail is good, and the price was around $10 Aust. Decals in National Chinese and USAF.
There are hundreds of T-6's you could make, including the ones in Tora! Tora! Tora! left unconverted, and just repainted.
Rotorhead, mate, pal, buddy...where do you live again? I'd love a model of a Tora 'Val, Nate and Zero'....oh, one can dream!
Last photo 'till I do something else.
Glenn
Title: Re: a different type of Zero.
Post by: K5054NZ on September 14, 2008, 02:18:36 PM
I'd love to get my hands on a Pavla BT-13 and bash her into a TTT Val. If I had the money I'd love to buy and syndicate a 1:1 example. What a seriously foxy machine ;D
Title: Re: a different type of Zero.
Post by: RotorheadTX on September 14, 2008, 05:21:40 PM
Glenn,

I'm in Austin, and the CAF birds are in San Marcos, just a short drive south of me.
Have a look at their website: http://www.realtime.net/centex/Cntxwing.htm
Title: Re: a different type of Zero.
Post by: Glenn on September 15, 2008, 12:23:01 AM
Hey, Rotorhead...we're almost neighbours! I only live about 8,000 miles from you! Yeah, if I can't get the Vultee Valliant model, I'll settle for plans of one.
I've thought of a few movies with T-6's in them....
A bridge too far
Tora, Tora
PT-109
Where Eagles Dare
In Halm's Way
The Great Escape
The Final Countdown
Operation Petticoat
and a Dutch movie, made around the time as Bridge too far, but built as a Fokker DXXI
any more?
Glenn
Title: Re: a different type of Zero.
Post by: kitbasher on September 15, 2008, 03:53:36 AM
Quote from: Glenn on September 15, 2008, 12:23:01 AM
I've thought of a few movies with T-6's in them....
and a Dutch movie, made around the time as Bridge too far, but built as a Fokker DXXI
I think that was 'Soldat van Oraanje', with Rutger Hauer. ;D ;D

By the way T-6s were, I recall, used to replicate Typhoons, P-47s and possibly FW190s in 'A Bridge Too Far'.
Title: Re: a different type of Zero.
Post by: ysi_maniac on September 16, 2008, 06:46:22 AM
Funny concept indeed! :thumbsup: :wub: