Stalins Organ Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 ...from my place...well about 40 miles, but it's not al that far... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 I assume it's a purpose built prop? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noltyboy Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Is it modifications to the Lanc kept at MOTAT? Seeing you appear to be a New Zealander. Lancaster B VII NX665 Equipped with H2S radar, is preserved at the Museum of Transport and Technology (aka MOTAT) in Auckland, New Zealand. This aircraft served with the Aeronavale as WU-13 from 1952 until the 1960s, when it was presented to the museum. The airframe originally lacked the mid-upper turret, having been built with the mountings for a Martin 250CE. An earlier FN50 was retrofitted in the late 1980s which required modifications to the aircraft's structure as the turret mounts had to be moved rearwards. *edit* never mind i read the article. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 *edit* never mind i read the article. lol Damn those links, eh? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 But will they change the name of the dog? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 damn those links, eh? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Well certainly I can't think of a better view of Wellington than through the bomb sight of a Lancaster. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted May 5, 2009 Author Share Posted May 5, 2009 The first 6 words made sense. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noba Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 The first 6 words made sense. He actually meant "any NZ city".... Noba. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Joch Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 they have a Lanc on display at the Canadian Air museum in Ottawa. It is smaller than you expect when you see one in real life. http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/artifacts/aircraft/AvroLancasterX/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak_43 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Well it's not a mock up of Scampton airfield with all those lovely hills in the background 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Ross Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Yeah, the RAF were well known for building their bomber bases right in amongst pretty hills. Ah well, there goes my immersion before the film is actually started. Unless maybe they somehow never show any hills when filming... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 But will they change the name of the dog? Follow the link..."Nigsy." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeDog Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Yeah, the RAF were well known for building their bomber bases right in amongst pretty hills. Ah well, there goes my immersion before the film is actually started. Unless maybe they somehow never show any hills when filming... Sure they can do this. The old-fashioned way is by carefully controlling camera angle and depth of field to make the hills not visible (or, at least, not very noticeable). It's pretty amazing what a good cinematographer and editor can do with a bit of time and care. Of course, in some films they're not so careful (or simply don't want to go to the time and expense), and so incongruous background elements show up in the final cut. Of course, these days, they're just as likely to call on the computer wizards to remove (or add) background elements digitally. But time at Skywalker Ranch ain't cheap, either, so even with today's editing toys, they may just leave the hills in on the theory that most audience members won't know the difference. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Ah ... they specifically say in the article that this is NOT filming for the movie. They're just mucking about, trying things out. They haven't decided on filming location(s) either yet, so whining like a biatch about immersion is a bit prem. Apparently they had a big green-screen set up behind the model at one stage. Weta are good for computing grunt and know-how. I don't think they need to go to Skywalker. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Name still dogs Dambusters I say: feck it. Get rid of the dog and give him a fluffy hamster called Pookie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Can't they cast Samuel L. Jackson as Gibson, then it'd be okay? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Ross Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Hah! Well you're responding to a guy who walked out of that Kate Winslet Enigma film shortly after she was shown wandering around in a field of oil seed rape. England was still a green and pleasant land in the 1940s, not scarred by omniprescent day-glo yellow splodges as it is today. So yeah, I'm most definitely a whiny biatch when it comes to immersion in 'historical' films Still, if they're 'just mucking about' then fingers crossed that they go somewhere more appropriate. As someone who was born and raised in the Sherwood Forest area, I give myself probably 10 minutes max before walking out of the upcoming Russel Crowe film. I remember that in that Costner travesty Sherwood Forest was apparently next door to Dover... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 D'you know, the beach scenes for Saving Private Ryan weren't filmed in Normandy! Even worse, they used a sandy beach! What were they thinking! What an utter travesty. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave H Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 D'you know, the beach scenes for Saving Private Ryan weren't filmed in Normandy! Even worse, they used a sandy beach! What were they thinking! What an utter travesty. But the shark in "Jaws" did actually eat Robert Shaw, right. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 But the shark in "Jaws" did actually eat Robert Shaw, right. How...unpleasant. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Can't they cast Samuel L. Jackson as Gibson, then it'd be okay? Very, very rarely do I literally LOL at anything I read on the Interweb. But that did it for me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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