Super 8

[HiroshiAirborne]

Went to go see Super 8 with some friends on Friday. In my opinion, it was pretty good. Some testors paints and models make a cameo and there's a scene where the kid tries to explain dry-brushing to the girl he has an extreme crush on. I'm sure we've all had to do that at one point, right?

Perhaps model making/painting will be main-stream some day... you think?

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Perhaps model making/painting will be main-stream some day... you think?

I wish You would be right, but given the fact that disappeared in the recent past some manufacturers and magazines from the market, I fear this will be come the other way around ...

But I hope I am wrong.

Cheers

 

[gordy]

Cool! Nice for modeling publicity

Look what Tom Cruise did for the Navy (Top Gun), NASCAR (Days of Thunder), bartending (Cocktail) if Cruise were to make another "career" inspiring let it be figure painting!

 

[renarts]

The 40 Year Old Virgin did nothing for figure painting.......

 

[JGREEN]

The 40 Year Old Virgin did nothing for figure painting.......

Ha! Hilarious! Ya, I took a lot of crap from guys I work with over that one!

Jason

 

[khorgor]

thats the major issue.
there are too many movies that put figure and model painting into a bad light.

give us a few more good ones and maybe the public stigma may be lifted somewhat

 

[renarts]

Ronin, Murder at 1600, one of the James Bond movies had figures/dioramas as part of the story. I don't think you can make them essential to the story, just atmosphere or a dressing element to the story. Enough to flesh out a scene, not enough to influence culture.

 

[gordy]

Don't forget "In The Line of Fire" , Clint Eastwood finds a magazine in the bad guys apartment 'New Age Modeler' and the same bad guy casts a resin gun to assassinate the president !

 

[alexwencho]

David Letterman Show when he was on NBC. He was making fun of magazine articles and picked up a copy of the old Military Modeler magazine. He showed the cover and captions and made fun of one that read: "real mud used to simulate mud on model tanks". He and the audience got a big laugh out of that little ditty.
I mean that was long before the use of MIG pigments and such. DIRT (for weathering) was all the only thing available for us model builders back in the day.

That was probably the last time I remember seeing the David Letterman show on NBC or CBS. I could say that I hate DL, but I wont. He has plenty of fans but count me out, "thank you very little"

alex wence

 

[renarts]

Challenge and I want a look up on that one Gordy. I think you get partial score for the magazine but the gun doesn't count.....no figures involved. ;-)

 

[gordy]

Never heard that one before Alex =)

Aye, right Mike