yeah, you can bet your butt that the Russians and Americans haven’t let their bunkers go to ruin like we have.
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This is a couple of years old but probably still relevant…
‘When you hear the four-minute warning’ … Whatever happened to Britain’s nuclear bunkers? | Nuclear weapons | The Guardian
Cheers,
M
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And mine! The fall is so naturally done too. Rik was a great physical comedy actor.
I’m not sure how many of the old nuclear bunkers have been preserved in the UK, but a few years ago we did visit the one near St Andrews in Scotland which is now open to the public. Quite an interesting visit if anyone finds themselves in that part of the world.
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i know it well, i always smiled at the irony of road sign…
i always thought the sign should read “Not So Secret Bunker” as it’s hardly a secret when there’s a sign pointing to it lol.
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Whilst we’re on the subject of bunkers, as a young Corporal in a NATO HQ, I was ensconced in a Typing Pool (don’t ask) within an Army Group HQ. The branch I was in was “G1/G5/CCP”; to those that know the NATO staff system, this is probably no problem, but to elucidate: G1 is the staff function dealing with personnel and administration matters, G5 is that dealing with civil and military cooperation (CIMIC); “CCP” defeated me so I asked around. It was, essentially a cover-name - “Combined Computer Projects” and it really concerned the construction of a massive bunker to be the Army Group’s replacement Static War HQ. At the time our mobilised HQ was set up just outside Maastricht in The Netherlands, in a series of caves, with suitable concrete and other mods to ensure upon deployment, we all survived nuclear near-misses. For the record the HQ was duplicated in that there was a Mobile HQ as well, consisting of a large number of office trucks and all the concomitant comms and life support aspects required of a deployable mobile HQ.
I was long gone by the time the CCP initiative had come to fruition but it mutated into the NATO HQ known as Castlegate, and I’m sure was hugely impressive and state of the art; for the curious see here:
Static War Headquarters Castlegate - Wikipedia
and associated links.
Personally, I feel the great closing-down sale of all our Civil Defence infrastructure, sparked by the illusory “peace dividend” when the IGB crumbled in 1989, is nothing short of treachery. Incompetent Ministers, Civil Servants and military chiefs should hang their cowardly heads in shame; after all, the nuclear threat has hardly gone away.
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That’s just down the road from me, also in walking distance from the Shropshire union canal.
The, near saint Andrews is a different one, there is a u tube on it, better layed out as well.
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I’ve been rewatching Eerie Indiana, a favourite from my childhood and found this one in the episode ‘Bureau of the Lost’.
The episode opens with the boys building a Japanese robot kit and finding some parts missing.
Over the course of the episode, they discover a secret organisation beneath the town responsible for everything that gets lost or goes missing. For the purpose of aiding the economy they argue. Everything that gets lost has to be replaced. ‘Losing’ parts from kits and jigsaws before they’re sold to the consumer saves time they argue!
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I don’t remember if this one has been mentioned before or not. I was sitting here and just happened to remember the episode of “Malcolm in the Middle” where Malcom spends the night at Stevie’s house, and they plan on building a model of a T-Rex.
“Check it out Stevie, the T-Rex is three feet tall with a moveable jaw”.
“Red paint, for blood”.
“This is so cool”!
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Just spotted this one in a clip from Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie. Is this the old Revell 1/28 Sopwith Camel that Marty Feldman’s holding?
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Everything, Mel Brooks, is brilliant.
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Watching the original movie “The Desperate Hours” (1955) and saw that the young boy has some model airplanes and other models in his room. There is a bottle of what looks like model paint on the desk and a ship/boat model of some kind and there is a box lid of an F90 Lockheed model upside down on his desk as well. I just can’t tell which model company the F90 is from.
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Netflix series “Dept. Q” episode 3. The cop on the right is talking to the other two cops about a cold case, in his office in Oban on the west of Scotland. I think his painting figures is to show how little crime there is to deal with there.
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Is it a good show?
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We’re 4 episodes in, so we must be enjoying it. It’s quite dark and quite funny, apparently based on some Skandi novel, but relocated to Scotland - which is itself a bit Skandi.
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If someone already done this, I have to apologize first for double post. Not a real moviegoers, but some of my mind so far:
In 2019 Ang Lee’s movie “Gemini Man” about minute 46, when young Will Smith’s ‘junior’ character report an encounter of his ‘senior’ version to his master played by Clive Owen:
Next, if it can be counted, when Hitler once more admiring the miniature of ‘new Berlin’ engineered by Albert Speer, after a moment Speer meet briefly with Himmler and Hermann Fegelein, in the movie “Downfall” around minute 15:
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Another findings, lot of items we can be taken from “The Hunt for Red October” by John McTiernan starring Alec Baldwin as Tom Clancy’s legendary Langley agent Jack Ryan:
Around minute 4, in the early opening credit, a scaled size of seem as a US submarine and also some ships in the display of Ryan’s crowded home working room:
Also circa minute 51, when Ryan firstly meet RADM Painter (played by Fred Dalton Thompson) along with Capt. Charlie Davenport (played by Daniel Davis), there’s a single model of F-14 in flying mode in the cabinet display:
CMIIW
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Well, at least they got the undercoat on; I suppose they were leaving the colour coat to someone with real house-painting experience…
Cheers,
M
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@MoramarthT I believe that the Russians are so happy when they find this 
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