That is looking sharp now- pretty much dead on to the film version.
Very nice job Matthew
My God that’s grim! Good work but grim(!)
So who remembers air raid / bombing drills in elementary school in the fifties/ early sixties ?
Sitting in the hall outside your classroom with your coat over your head - surely that would save your a _ _ from thermo nuclear attack , right ? ?
Another thing to take into consideration. This is a time lapse of every atomic/nuclear/thermonuclear weapon ever detonated by all the major nuclear powers from July 1945 to December 1998.
Very nice matching progress on this one. I’m a big fan of movie models.
I remember those drills… sort of. It was 65 years ago after all. I do remember having to crawl under our desks. We also lived in a tornado area. Maybe it was a case of “one drill fits all”.
Ever walk around your city and notice the Civil Defense signs on older buildings? They are still out there. I wonder if they are still stocked with provisions?
Small progress today, I spent a while making the metal fittings for the gun sling. Several disappeared somewhere. Following a suggestion on another recent thread here, the strap is Tamiya tape, which allows undoing it to add the fittings and doing it up again.
The printed gun doesn’t include sling attachment points. The top one is glued in place and I may add something to “connect” it to the gun later. Now waiting for CA glue to fully harden before attempting to shape and attach the bottom end.
He now also has epaulet and cap buttons.
Your figure is coming along really nice Matthew.
I never heard of the movie before I saw your post. I just finished watching it for the first time this morning. Very bleak and realistic.
It is indeed bloody grim; but the US film "The Day After"is also worth a look. It came out around a year before “Threads” I think. The depiction of the nuclear attack is stunning.
Somewhere I read that when President Reagan saw it it galvanised him into action to do as much as he could to lessen the chances of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union…
Well might some of our posturing leaders take note today(!)
A tad off-topic but both films are quite something I feel.
An afternote for completeness’ sake: back in 1966 the BBC commissioned a film to show the effects of a nuclear attack on Britain. The result was “The War Game” and considered so grim that it was banned immediately, not being re-released until 1985. Probably available on YouTube - I haven’t checked.
Right - I now need cheering up - where did I put my gin?
Yes, I watched that last night, it doesn’t seem to be on YouTube, it’s clearly still being copyright protected because it’s available to buy for £5.99 on both AppleTV and Amazon Prime - which is how I watched it. I may have to watch it again as I had to keep pausing it to listen to my wife asking to watch something less depressing; so we watched another 2 episodes of Wolf Hall (which is perhaps only slightly less depressing because it occurred in the past - Thomas Cromwell’s wife and children all die of sweating sickness, and everyone seems to be at risk of having their head cut off) and had to finish the last half later.
The War Game is almost as grim as Threads, slightly less gruelling for being less than an hour long. Oddly, I recognised the location of the opening scene in Chatham. The old Army and Navy Hotel is the building on the right, and beyond it is Chatham Town Hall.
Thanks Harv. I have done a little more, attaching the gun strap into its final position, so it’s almost ready for a test grey primer. As the weather has warmed up a bit I might be able to bear having the window open for spray painting.
Hope you “enjoyed” it
I remember watching “The Day After” when it premiered in 1983 when I was a freshman in college. I haven’t seen it since. I need to watch it again. A few days after watching it I was talking about it and a guy got upset and told me I was a communist for having watched it. Okay…whatever nut job. I think Elvis is waiting in the car for you.
You’re welcome.
I did like it. It definitely paints a grim picture for sure. Going to have to watch “The War Game” now as well.
I’m beginning to wonder if there’s only so much “grimness” one can take(!)
What with “Threads”, “The Day After” and now “The War Game” we’ll all end up in counselling at this rate.
@BootsDMS after the amount of Vietnam war films I’ve watched, i must qualify for some sort of PTSD payment from the VA.
Hah! David, I know where you’re coming from! Mind you, in the Socialist Paradise of Workers and Peasants that now passes for the UK, you’d probably get it!
As referred to by me a few posts back - the attack at roughly 8.51 just blew me away - no pun intended.
I think what is remarkable is that we all, up to a point and depending on your film-viewing history - all get used to seeing footage of singleton explosions - whereas, in the event of a major war, there would be multiple strikes, and I think this is about the only film ever to have shown this.
Bleak indeed, but incredibly well done.
Perhaps a re-run of all three of the films mentioned should be compulsory viewing for those in the west who are perhaps suffering from a surfeit of bellicosity at the moment.
I’ve drawn attention to this volume fairly recently, but if you haven’t endured enough grimness (new noun?) then give this a go:
or, perhaps not(!)
I forgot my manners: apologies Matthew, for any perceived thread hijack, even if not too far distant from your project(!)