'Silent" Christmas Greeting

MacGyverSG10

Active Member

• Dec 15, 2006

• #1

Hello from me and the boys ...

To everyone here at the RPF -- Have a safe and Happy Holiday.

-Mac

 

H

houdiniguy

Sr Member

• Dec 15, 2006

• #2

LOve it.

Thanks and to you also.

Tom
P.S. Happy HO to the third.

 

Don Jarr

Active Member

• Dec 16, 2006

• #3

Hi m8

I love those, and it always brings back that very sad moment when one of them (can't remember if its huey, lewy or dewy,) gets his foot stuck while outside the ship in the storm and gets blown away.

anyway they are great.

Don

 

MacGyverSG10

Active Member

• Dec 16, 2006

• #4

Thanks guys -- I've always liked these little drones and the the movie they were in "Silent Running" from '72. A pretty clever movie for it's day, when special effects were still a lot of work.

I've seen pics of some done full-sized and they look real sweet.

I still need to figure out how to do the numbers for their fronts and backs and get the lens (for where the light is suppose to be on each). But it was fun building this kit.

... Oh & BTW, it was poor little Louie (the green one) who got his foot stuck and was swept away, while the Valley Forge was "shooting the rapids". A moment that still kind of chokes me up, to this day.

Cheers..

-Mac

 

ShowCraft

Sr Member

• Dec 16, 2006

• #5

Clever, thanks Mac. Always makes me smile when someone acnowledges that film.
For most folks here, it was Star Wars that transformed them into sci-fi nut cases. For me it was Silent Running. Saw it back in the early 70's when I was a little kid and I was convinced that Huey Dewy & Lewy were real robots.

 

MacGyverSG10

Active Member

• Dec 16, 2006

• #6

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Samos 3 @ Dec 16 2006, 02:38 PM) [snapback]1379441[/snapback]</div>

... Saw it back in the early 70's when I was a little kid and I was convinced that Huey Dewy & Lewy were real robots.
[/b]

Click to expand...

Yes, it does take away some of the "magic" to know the secret about the movie drones.

 

Spoox

Well-Known Member

• Dec 17, 2006

• #7

hey thts cool Happy Holidays to you as well

 

Stomper

New Member

• Dec 17, 2006

• #8

OMG... I remember that movie these were in... ... just before the BLINDING nuclear flash..... *