Well, Daniel, for better or worse, you’re famous now! Your artwork has been carved in stone. 😀

http://www.diecast-aviation.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1071&page=1&pp=10

…and…
http://www.diecast-aviation.co.uk/html/corgi_club_model_2005.html

–Bob Steinbrunn

WOW! Had no idea folks could get worked up about a diecast Spit. As for Leviathan’s comment about the images being off a Decomaster sheets….The Spit is most definately mine. No doubt about it. And I did do the Blue Hurri as well. Once again, no big deal, just interesting 🙂

Dan

All those burning bridges that are falling after me, all those lonely feelings and a burning memory … everyone I left behind each time I close the door, burning bridges lost forever more …

(I never knew if I got the lyrics right … hope they make sense.)

Sung by the Mike Curb Congregation. My parents had that record when I was a kid. Gotta admit I liked that song 🙂

Dan
“I understand the trade for the uniforms but for the tank? It’s a hunka junk!”

IF they’re trying to sneak any sort of message into the film, it’s ‘what are we really fighting for?”

Oddball’s comments about being in the thick of it since Omaha Beach and watching his CO get decapitated by an 88. Kelly being ordered up the wrong hill and getting his platoon wiped out, etc

This wasn’t that far off time wise from M.A.S.H, in fact they were both released in 1970 now the I checked. I think you have to take into context the time it was made and the mood of the US at the time with Vietnam still front and center. There was a lot of cynicism about the war and what it was being fought for.

Kelly and the guys finally went after something for themselves. There is a scene where Big Joe asks the guys in the squad why they’d take the risk. One of the quieter guys says “The risk is the same one we’ve been taking since we got here. This time it’s for us” or something along those lines. He ends up getting killed, but his message was correct. They were going back in the line anyway.

Of course now you have given me reason to watch it again 🙂

Dan

yeah, and you’d have thourght they’d have sent you a complementary model eh, seeing as you appear have been involved, even if unwittingly!!
no one seems to have a colour reference for it, so we may never know what colour it was at this stage of its life… CHC claim it was gray primer?
Neil.

I tracked down the e-mail. e-mails were dated last May. That was part of the deal. They’d send me the blue Hurri and gray Spit when they were done. I didn’t know the artwork would end up online:)

Guess I’ll have to watch the mail 🙂

I was doing it for fun though so no big deal either way. Kind of nice to see the stuff get used.

Dan

Dan,
could I ask what you used as reference for the profile that you produced? yes it does look very much the same doesnt it.. Hmm.
Neil.

Can’t remember who it was, but someone from the Corgi Heritage Center sent me a scan of a black and white photo of the plane and I did the first one, but it seemed the color was darker so I did the second one with the darker gray.

Looking at the photo, my lettering is more, for lack of a better word, precise since I used a font to do the lettering and the other photo looks more hand painted.

Kinda cool to see it on the model though 🙂

Just looked around their site. Too funny. There’s my profile on the top of the page. Think that’s my blue Hurri too 🙂

Dan

Found this image. It sure looks the same down to the bracing in the front lower corner.

Dan

Nice to see many of you remembered these men today as well, on the Region 2 DVD, there are two excellent programs on the history of the Great Escape , one deals with what happen to the fifty and how the British tracked down all those responsible for the executions. The second one is from “History vs Hollywood” shown on The Hisotry Channel, tells how the films director John Stergis tried to stay close to the original story and once again (U-571) provide story lines for the American Cast in the film. While the Steve McQueen role adds something to the film, it does bother me to the extent it never happened . This has caused many Stalag Luft III veterans to disapprove of the film. Once again trying to alter and change real history by those in the film industry. The region one DVD sold here in the states does not offer any extras , glad I bought one while in the UK. Its a real tribute to these brave men!

A Salute from BlueNoser352!

Ironically, a couple of RAF escapee’s did ride a motorcycle to freedom. New Zealander Jimmy Thiele and Terry Spencer rode one across the Remagen bridge to freedom. Both had been in 41 Squadron flying Spit XIIs. Jimmy Thiele later had 3 Squadron with Tempests and Terry had 350 Squadron with Spit XIVs. Both went down to be POWs and later escaped.

Dan