Battle of Britain reimagined

[Eric Mc]

I wasn't sure whether to post this in the scale model forum, the aircraft forum or the TV and film forum.

So, I decided to post it here as it is more about the story rather than the technique used to tell it.

I thought it was very well done. If the mods think it is best suited to a different forum, feel free to move it -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTa8xEGv_RE

[Ayahuasca]

Blimey. Productive lockdown.

[Birkin1932]

Thats fantastic

[Simpo Two]

Come on admit it Eric, you made it didn't you...

[Steve_D]

Very good. I hate to think how many hours went into making that. Also i didn't spot any repeated scenes.

Steve

[Ayahuasca]

My favourite BOB scene is the Heinkel peeling off and and running for home, trailing smoke. Captured very well in the model version !

[TR4man]

That is wonderful!

[Eric Mc]

Simpo Two said:

Come on admit it Eric, you made it didn't you...

I wish.

It was fun trying to identify the models used. I identified an Airfix Spitfire MkI (old tooling) and a Messerschmitt Bf-109E (old tooling).
The Defiant seen near the end looked like the nice new tool Airfix kit.

[lufbramatt]

That's brilliant!

I think the Me110s are the 10 year old Airfix kit, and the Airfix refuelling set (Bedford QL and AEC) is in there too- the Bedford is in post-war colours

the 6 wheel german staff car I think is the ICM one as the grille is different to the Revell one (probably to get around licensing issues with Mercedes)

[Eric Mc]

I think I spotted a Ju88 on the ground in one shot. I would have liked to have seen a few Dornier 17/215s and Ju88s in the flying sequences too - but that's just me being greedy.

[Wozy68]

That’s bloody fantastic...... Blokes in sheds ..... I thought the likes of were no more. Good to see I’m wrong

[Eric Mc]

You can all visit my shed when all this Covid nonsense is over.

[velocemitch]

That was brilliant, loved it !!

[smn159]

Excellent!

[rasto]

That was superb - took me right back to Saturday afternoon war movies.

[tdm34]

Absolutely Brilliant

[Yertis]

Needed more Hurricanes.

[V41LEY]

Fantastic. Great effort.
I always knew Michael Jackson didn’t invent moonwalking !
Can’t wait for the D-Day landings or the Battle of Midway.

[Eric Mc]

I'd love to see their effort with "The Dambusters". Airfix provides a lot of the basics, including in one kit, even a section of dam.

[FunkyNige]

A group of players from a video game (WarThunder) did something similar - they had a few battles of similar to the Battle of Britain film and spliced together some clips from their games with some formation flying to create a little movie -
https://youtu.be/KFv-kJ88V38

If you see a bunch of numbers in the top left that's live footage (and sound) from when they were playing, the action starts at about 11 minutes in.
Obviously they only had the vehicles in game available so I'm sure they're not 100% accurate and the markings can be customised so they're not going to be historically accurate either.