Too cool.
It's spring cleaning time in my shop and I've benn pulling out old boxes of stuff to sort through and throw out. Mostly old junk that I no longer need or want. And then I come across this, a mostly complete set of original production castings for the 1/8 scale Flatbed model!!! I probably packed these away almost 25 years ago and had completely forgot I still had them. The ironic thing is that the box was on the top shelf, of a back storage closet and I almost didn't pull it down. Now I'm glad I did!
i won't name any names, but i know of at least one person who would write you a blank check to get his hands on a set of parts if you ever made molds from that spring cleaning find. my 1/8 scale Alvin and Delta would be happy to sit on a display shelf beside a 1/8 scale Flatbed.... by the way, at 18" by 18", it would be only a little bigger than the Delta... not large at all by my standards
Studio scale replicas of Cab and Flatbed are not completely out of the question, it's just that many other projects have priority. But you never know...
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That would be a kick in the pants to see R/C'd.
I wonder what the bottom of the NTI Ark looked like or was it just flat? I seen a lot of the concept art in the collectors edition 2 Disc DVD that I own of the spires of the thing. But dang I really wish that there was a lot more pictures of that thing in the DVD's and such.
I found some rare behind the scenes footage about the sub models. It contains more info than the DVD special features doc. I thought I'd seen everything Abyss related on the web so I was excited to find something new. Its obviously very old footage so quality is bad, but here it is:
The Abyss (1989) - Miniature Props and Behind the Scenes - YouTube
This first clip is from the old tv series "Hollywood Fx Masters" hosted by the late Christopher Reeve. I have a number of them I've transfered to dvd. Ill check to see if I have a better quality version.
We used a similar setup a couple of years later for the film Crimson Tide to show the Russian Akula sub going through explosive decompression. For that model we used 6 much larger vacuum bell jars, placed end to end in the 18 foot long model submarine. The hull of that Akula model was made from sheet lead. When the bell jars were shattered by the charges in rapid succession from back to front, they imploded, sucking in the lead hull. Unfortunately the camera angle used in the cut of the film didn't show off the shot the best, but there is a very good behind the scenes bit that does on the DVD extras.