1/18 on TV

[CW4USARMY]

Was just watching FNC and a USAA insurance commercial came on and at the end, a little boy was playing with a 21st century 1/18 P-38 next to his veteran grandpa. Cool to see

[Coreyeagle48]

Greetings

Awhile back I was flipping through channels and flipped through the Lifetime Movie Network. There was a movie on about a lady who was a flight engineer. In her "house" in the flim she had several 1/18 models on display, I remember seeing the Mig-15 on one of the shelves as well as the F-104.

Some of the aircraft also made an appearance in the second "Night At The Museum" movie.

I've also seen several on display at museums.

They did get around.

Corey

[rschaap]

In the TV series "Eureka" they had a number of BBI, 21st Century, Admiral planes and helicopters as display models in the background of an office scene during an episode.

[p51]

I donated quite a few to the Planes of Fame Museum, so they are all over in different displays if anyone ever comes out for a visit.

[tmanthegreat]

I donated quite a few to the Planes of Fame Museum, so they are all over in different displays if anyone ever comes out for a visit.

I did come out for a visit a couple years ago - where were you? I expected to see you out somewhere taking pictures In any event, I was very impressed - not only with the actual collection of vintage planes and the junkyard out back, but the hundreds of scale models all over in the cases at the PoF Museum. I chuckled when I saw the 1:18 21c planes dispersed throughout the various displays and now I know where they came from

The giftshop at the Castle Air Museum at the former Castle AFB in Atwater, CA has a number of older XD planes hanging on the ceiling like the Snake Stuka, Samantha Payton P-38, and others.

As for XD in other media, I want to say there was a 21c 1:18 M-41 that appeared on a shelf in the background of an older Game Stop commercial. I also saw a show once about a company that restores armored vehicles (on the Military Channel, I think) where the company's owner had a couple 21c 1:6 scale M-5 Stuart tanks in his office. There was also some documentary I saw about the Bermuda Triangle on the History Channel once where some "expert" had a 21c "Flight 19" Avenger sitting in the foreground on his desk (the plane was the Lt. Taylor FT-28 model).

Its a shame 21c never advertised themselves better. I want to say they did have one TV spot around 2004 that showed on one channel, but even an add in a model-building magazine or aviation publication would have done wonders for getting out word about their products. I have a couple of their trade show flyers - which are neat - but something like that never made it to the general public...

[dannyc]

Not really a tv sighting but in the restoration shop at Kermit weeks fantasy of t
Flight they had a p47 razorback p38 and f4u so they could use them for reference during repairs sand restorations

[Berkut]

Nice thread, I started the same topic a year ago: http://www.warbird-photos.com/gpxd/view ... =1&t=29739

Post 1/18 models on TV (movies/series/games/other)
Yesterday I watched not such a good movie: The Kingdom (2007): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431197/
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After 20 mins or so I noticed a kid in his room playing with a BBI 1/18 Kiowa SFOR and in the background some more 1/18 heli's.

So please post here if you see some interesting 1/18 models on TV.


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