'Falke's' chevron aircraft, 1/48 HA-1112 from the movie 'Battle of Britain' – Film star part 4
The last of my 'Battle of Britain' builds, 'Falkes' (supposedly Galland) HA-1112 with the chevron and the victory marks. Built with both the three bladed prop for the static and taxiing scenes, and the 4 bladed prop for the flying scenes.
While it may not be historically accurate, I've always loved the look of the HA-1112 in early Luftwaffe markings, it looks so 'shark' like ...
Build log ...
https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235107779-battle-of-britain-movie-148-ha-1112-buchons-new-april-29th/
Hope you like, thanks for looking,
Colin
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- 1. 4 bladed prop for the flying scenes
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- 1. 3 blade prop for the static and taxiing scenes
Looks wonderful indeed, Colin!
Congratulations!
Very nice work on this, @tail-dragon. It looks very good.
Falke definitely was Galland (I had the opportunity to ask). The reason they didn't go with actual names was the price of buying "life rights" and the fact they were afraid the real people would start saying "but it wasn't exactly like that" regarding their experince vs the movie, and might then spoil things with bad interviews when it was released. This way they kept everyone "on board". There's your bit of "inside baseball" movie trivia for the day. 🙂
The kit looks very convincing in representing a movie star. I think the "BoB the Movie" did a lot to save and preserve a few of todays Warbirds. Apparently, during production the producers where still running around trying to get financing or grub up enough money to keep filming. Galland was hired as a consultant during filming and threaten to walk off the set over the production trying to gloss over some of the facts.
I doubt that any production company will ever gather as many "real aircraft" to shoot a historical film again. That and "Catch-22". Its all CGI now.
Had to smash the like button Colin.
Two thumbs up.
Truly amazing, Colin @tail-dragon
Have seen several of those Buchons and must admit that it is impressive to see those airworthy aircraft.
Yours is definitely a perfect copy of them.
Well done, again, Colin!
Looks great, I remember the movie well.
You’re right about the “shark” looks, and you’ve captured that appearance beautifully.
Nice work, Colin.
Very nice!
Great model! Thanks for explaining the three/four blade prop appearances in the movie, have always wondered about that. Liked.