I loved "Dark Star". I have to say, though, that given the spaceship never lands in the film, it would be very difficult to get the model to stand up on your shelf! Perhaps one of those clear plastic stands Airfix and Matchbox used to supply with model aircraft would be in order.
...well, if you look very carefully in the stack of models piled high on the back of the Mustang there is the classic 'Glows in the Dark' square Godzllla box. It is painted painted pretty loose, but it is there !
Great work Matt! Glad that I found your channel! I did mattepaintings for TV and movies for some years and now I mostly paint digital box top Illustration for model kits. I'm in love with model box art since I was a child and I must say you are doing a fine job here. Love it! Cheers, Jack
Another great video. Yes, there are lots of existing kits that could be re-boxed as a movie tie-in. The Iron Eagle films were poor, but the movies were shot in Israel, and the aircraft were Israeli Air Force. The hero flew the F-16 in Israeli camouflage with US markings; the bad guys had the Kfir; and in one they used the F-4 Phantom as a MiG-29. All would make fun kits. Thanks for the mention of Max and Honey. Yes, a great channel for any kit fan.
Vectored to your channel by Max of Max’s Models. Good stuff and subscribed. Other ideas for possible box art would be repackaging kits such as Monogram did with their “Call to Glory” series. The movie “Capricorn One” is one possibility with several aircraft & spacecraft options. Combo kit with a Stearman and Hughes 500…
Good ideas for movie-tie ins to not very popular movies, I do believe I've seen a couple of those airliner disaster movies on early episodes of Myster Science Theater! Nice shout to Max Modeler, very kind of you! Has he seen that concept art?!
I found an Eagle annual from the 1950's. I bet you could start a whole model line on the spaceships and vehicles which appeared in Dan Dare stories. I think the artist actually made models of them from scratch for reference.
Super interesting video and some amazing art work. Max suggested your channel and I'm glad I checked it out, and subscribed. I for one would have loved to see those airliner kits from the movies, loved watching those as a kid. I actually have one of the old Revell kits of the 747 with the space shuttle on it's back. It's a kit I always wanted growing up but never got. It will be built on my channel, just not sure when yet. Thanks again for sharing your amazing art and I'll be watching from now on. Have a great week. -David
... you were discussing model aircraft from movies and one that I thought of was the unmarked cargo jet from the second Die Hard movie, have the model depicted with the smaller tv news crew helicopter hovering just over the left wing as in the climactic ending scene ...
I once tried doing the Concorde from Airport 79 but couldn't quite figure out how to write the name Concorde on the fuselage in the right font and scale. I did manage the logo on the tail but eventually lost interest in doing it so it was shelved and has never seen the light of day since. I would love a model of the Dark Star as I have always thought it was a beautifully aesthetic spacecraft
Thanks for posting this, Matt! A couple of thoughts: Sadly, Aurora went out of business around 1977 - 78; too late for them to bring us the Trimaxion Drone Ship from "Flight of the Navigator." But here I'm assuming that in the alternate reality you are creating with these fantasy model kits, Aurora remained solvent in the 1980's. A good "point-of-divergence" scenario would be that in the mid-1960's, Aurora CEO's gave the go-ahead to produce the Jupiter 2 kit from "Lost in Space," and the "Batcopter" from "Batman '66." The first kit remained popular and sold long after LiS went off the air, and became for Aurora what the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 was for AMT. And though "Batman" stopped production before the "Batcopter" was made; this kit sold well retooled as the stock Bell-47, and was later modified as a Medivac Chopper for "M*A*S*H." These decisions kept Aurora in business well into the early 21st Century, and maybe even to this day. I'd buy that "Enemy Mine" set in a heartbeat! And it looks like Atlantis Models will be repopping the Aurora "Prehistoric Scenes," so we'll have those to look forward to! Thanks for sharing this with us, and I'm looking forward to more!
Thanks for the feedback. Some graet ideas! Yeh Aurora in the 80s - with the old style box - is an anachronism, but it just felt like it should be an Aurora box. A Monogram box of teh ear might work better,,, in the way that the Aurora Flyng Sub was available in a Mongram box well into the 80s and 90s I think.
@@MattelineWell, your FOTN model has "Aurora" written all over it. Monogram would have also worked, since they came out with movie/TV kits like "Blue Thunder" and "SeaQuest DSV." But the idea that Aurora is still with us is as much a fun fantasy as these boxes, so why not? Your idea for "Movie Star Livery passenger jets" is also inspired. (Too bad you didn't include the "Trans American" 707 from the 1980 "Airplane!" in that lineup.) Another idea might be issues of private aircraft in the livery of famous billionaires. One could be the Amodel Dassault Falcon 50 in the livery of Taylor Swift's private plane. It could be marketed as, "The plane that broke (up with) the sound barrier . . . ."
Great box art again. l love the space ships they're great . The dinosaurs back in the 60s and 70s , while not anitomically correct wear still brilliant l love the one from 1,000,000 Years BC done by Ray Harryhauser . I think the Brontosauarus became the Apatasaurus , if l remember correctly 🤔.... 👍
With your 'Airport' paintings, I was rather hoping to see the aircraft (a Douglas or Convair jet?) from 'Airplane!', and possibly the shuttle from the sequel. Great video, though. You do incredible work. Thank you. 👍👍👍
This is a GREAT SERIES if these had only existed. You should do another Enemy Mine version of the first BTA fighter which was more like a yellow space shuttle shape. They had filmed sequences of the BTA fighters and then scrapped all the footage when the film changed director's from Richard Loncrane to Wolfgang Petersen. They kept the Drag raider the same. This was all explained in an article in Cinefex magazine they basically reshot the whole movie. It would have been interesting to see the first version it might have done better at the box office.
I had heard about the troubled production. I am notbsure ho much of it was done. I ha e seen the first version of the ships. They look too much like a Space Shuttle for me or something from 'Space:1999'. I like the new BTA fighters that appear in the film. I also really like how lightweight the space station/aircraft carrier thing's interiors looked. The sets and the hangar bay.
Yeah you are right it does look like the space glider from Space 1999. Speaking of which that would make a good fantasy box art subject. It's a wonder MPC hasn't done a kit of that in their Space 1999 series of kits.
It's pure speculation, but perhaps Boeing were not too keen on their aircraft being constantly crashing in the 'Airport' films, so asked the kit makers not to further promote the films?
More than likely. Although the planes themselves were always depicted in a good light. The disasters were never a failing in the aircraft and in fact they soldiered on in the face of adversity. But I can certainly imagine why they might be reluctant to endorse kits associated with 'disaster movies' .
There have been some aftermarket transfers for the Boeing 747 from Airport 1975 ( Colombia Airlines) in 1/200 Scale, made some years back . Would like to see some 1/ 72 scale transfers for the Douglas C-47 Skytrain/Dakota from the film A Brigade To Far.
Many years ago (1980) there was a TV movie/pilot for a series that never made it in to production called The Secret War of Jackie's Girls. A team of female pilots fly helicopters in WW2, on various special covert missions. The helicopters were dressed up to look like the open cockpit Sikorsky VS-300 - that would make a really great model, and a good movie tie-in.
@@Matteline Actually, yes. The Luftwaffe had several types in service, and the Americans had the Sikorsky R-4. All were used in very small numbers, but they were there. Korea was the first war in which they were used in large numbers.
For airliner kits how about the DC-4 (or DC-6 or M-404 or CV-240) from the 1957 movie Zero Hour! ? That Revell Space Shuttle and 747 set is just calling out for a Moonraker version.
I loved my Aurora dinos as a kit and have collected the set as an adult (3 caves and counting!!!!!). The Stegosaurus was prototyped but never released (apart from a limited garage type resin version). Not sure Boeing would have been happy with Airport themed kits.......
I wondered about that. I can imagine them maybe frowning if the kits were release with 'damaged' sections. But they must have been OK to allow their use in the films. In all of the films the aircraft are co vexed in a very positive way. Especially Aiport. The disasters and troubles involved are never anything to do with any sort of fault or shortcoming in the aircraft. In fact the planes excel in the challenging circumstances :)
Bronto and Brach are actually different animals...Brach is bigger and has a different shaped head with a small frill on the top with a blow hole that the Bronto dudnt have.
Thanks for clarifying. When i was a kid there was also a Diplodocus, which had a similar body type to the Brontosaurus - but leaner I think. You don't seem to hear those referenced as much any more, the Brachiasuar seems to have taken their spot in the Dino Top 10. But I didnt realise they were different aniamls.
I assume the movie tie ins would have been subject to the studios agreement, and they would have wanted their cut of the merchandising, which may have been more than the kits would have grossed for the maker. The other option is Mattel or Kenner for arguments sake, may have already had the contract to produce vehicles from the films, and they wouldn’t want Airfix/Revell/Heller muscling in on their expensive option, even if they didn’t have plans to produce a 1:144 model of the plane.
I am sure there are all sorts of behind the scenes reasons. Someone suggested that back in the Model Kits were more for kids and the 'soapy' Airport movies with people.having affairs and heart attacks and all sorts.... were not particularly well suited to kids products.⁹
yes, the Airport films were for adult audience - at least initially. All of the films all go above and beyond in showing the aircraft in the best possible light - excelling in the catastrophic situations.
@@Matteline yeah ,was to answer your question why they didn’t make sets since its simply normal planes who existed as kits , but no one wants a negative publicity even if the end worked out it was still scary back then and you didn’t want to be related to that at the time as PR manager.
Excellent work again. As a GlooTrooper I adore that art work you did for Max.
I am about to do my morning video...1 guess what it will be about! should be up in an hour or so.
Thanks. It was a lot of fun :)
You nailed it Matt, Honey is the star...I am just her minion 😁🤣😂
All hail Queen Honey!! She Who Must Be Appeased! 😎👍
@@lancerevell5979 Resistance is futile! 🤣
Airport ‘77 would make a great diorama. Thanks for these. Great artistry 👍🏻
Great video and epic artwork. Very cool box top ideas. Props to Max for recommending you. Thank you.
Thank You :)
I loved "Dark Star". I have to say, though, that given the spaceship never lands in the film, it would be very difficult to get the model to stand up on your shelf! Perhaps one of those clear plastic stands Airfix and Matchbox used to supply with model aircraft would be in order.
Darkstar is one of my favorite SciFi movies. Bomb: "Let there be light!" 😎👍
HURRAH! ...FIRST!!!! Matt, I love your work! Keep it up. BTW, that is a great point, how did the kit makers overlook those tie-ins?
You got up early, eh.
Doolittle : Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?
Bomb #20 : I am always receptive to suggestions.
@@garfieldsmith332 just glad to get up at all 🤣
There was one thing you left out of Max’s box art to make it perfect. Godzilla needs to be somewhere in the background.
😄
Excellent suggestion!
...well, if you look very carefully in the stack of models piled high on the back of the Mustang there is the classic 'Glows in the Dark' square Godzllla box. It is painted painted pretty loose, but it is there !
@@MattelineI was thinking of a big Godzilla like that’s what he was driving away from, but a model kit of Big G might be even better.
Love the Airport movie box art....as Max would say...Model On!
Max’s box art ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍⭐️👍
Great work Matt! Glad that I found your channel! I did mattepaintings for TV and movies for some years and now I mostly paint digital box top Illustration for model kits. I'm in love with model box art since I was a child and I must say you are doing a fine job here. Love it! Cheers, Jack
Fun stuff...Loved the Dark Star model - it's a favourite though you are right - you have to be in the mood...
I have seen it several times and sometimes it just leaves me cold. Other times I am rolling on the floor laughing :)
Another great video. Yes, there are lots of existing kits that could be re-boxed as a movie tie-in. The Iron Eagle films were poor, but the movies were shot in Israel, and the aircraft were Israeli Air Force. The hero flew the F-16 in Israeli camouflage with US markings; the bad guys had the Kfir; and in one they used the F-4 Phantom as a MiG-29. All would make fun kits.
Thanks for the mention of Max and Honey. Yes, a great channel for any kit fan.
Another good 707 kit would been from the movie Airplane. 😊
Surely, I would buy that.
@@jwrockets I thought about doing the 'Airplane' airliner, but I didn't want to detract from the Airport films themsleves :)
Vectored to your channel by Max of Max’s Models. Good stuff and subscribed. Other ideas for possible box art would be repackaging kits such as Monogram did with their “Call to Glory” series. The movie “Capricorn One” is one possibility with several aircraft & spacecraft options. Combo kit with a Stearman and Hughes 500…
The crop duster and the chopper would make a great 'Dogfight Double'!
You know, I'd love to see the Airport 1975 kit, if it came with battle damaged parts for the cockpit!
I imagine the best they would have done was a decal. Given that they didn't really do anything to the 747 in the movie.
Good ideas for movie-tie ins to not very popular movies, I do believe I've seen a couple of those airliner disaster movies on early episodes of Myster Science Theater! Nice shout to Max Modeler, very kind of you! Has he seen that concept art?!
GREAT VIDEO SIR,NEW MEMBER BY WAY OF MAX.GOD BLESS
Great video! Nice to see the Dino’s 🦕 added.
I still can't belive Aurora didn't do a Stegosaurus. It's one of the most memorable Dinos
Lots of fun. Thanks!
The box art is AMAZING !
I found an Eagle annual from the 1950's. I bet you could start a whole model line on the spaceships and vehicles which appeared in Dan Dare stories. I think the artist actually made models of them from scratch for reference.
Super interesting video and some amazing art work. Max suggested your channel and I'm glad I checked it out, and subscribed. I for one would have loved to see those airliner kits from the movies, loved watching those as a kid. I actually have one of the old Revell kits of the 747 with the space shuttle on it's back. It's a kit I always wanted growing up but never got. It will be built on my channel, just not sure when yet. Thanks again for sharing your amazing art and I'll be watching from now on. Have a great week.
-David
Thanks for the feedback.
"I have a dinosaur, I want it painted black."- Mick Jagger as a child, maybe.
Keep them coming!
... you were discussing model aircraft from movies and one that I thought of was the unmarked cargo jet from the second Die Hard movie, have the model depicted with the smaller tv news crew helicopter hovering just over the left wing as in the climactic ending scene ...
I think that was a fictional aircraft wasn't it? A sort of jet-powered Hercules.
I once tried doing the Concorde from Airport 79 but couldn't quite figure out how to write the name Concorde on the fuselage in the right font and scale. I did manage the logo on the tail but eventually lost interest in doing it so it was shelved and has never seen the light of day since. I would love a model of the Dark Star as I have always thought it was a beautifully aesthetic spacecraft
Thanks for posting this, Matt! A couple of thoughts:
Sadly, Aurora went out of business around 1977 - 78; too late for them to bring us the Trimaxion Drone Ship from "Flight of the Navigator." But here I'm assuming that in the alternate reality you are creating with these fantasy model kits, Aurora remained solvent in the 1980's.
A good "point-of-divergence" scenario would be that in the mid-1960's, Aurora CEO's gave the go-ahead to produce the Jupiter 2 kit from "Lost in Space," and the "Batcopter" from "Batman '66." The first kit remained popular and sold long after LiS went off the air, and became for Aurora what the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 was for AMT. And though "Batman" stopped production before the "Batcopter" was made; this kit sold well retooled as the stock Bell-47, and was later modified as a Medivac Chopper for "M*A*S*H." These decisions kept Aurora in business well into the early 21st Century, and maybe even to this day.
I'd buy that "Enemy Mine" set in a heartbeat!
And it looks like Atlantis Models will be repopping the Aurora "Prehistoric Scenes," so we'll have those to look forward to!
Thanks for sharing this with us, and I'm looking forward to more!
I'd buy them all!!!!
Thanks for the feedback. Some graet ideas! Yeh Aurora in the 80s - with the old style box - is an anachronism, but it just felt like it should be an Aurora box. A Monogram box of teh ear might work better,,, in the way that the Aurora Flyng Sub was available in a Mongram box well into the 80s and 90s I think.
@@MattelineWell, your FOTN model has "Aurora" written all over it. Monogram would have also worked, since they came out with movie/TV kits like "Blue Thunder" and "SeaQuest DSV." But the idea that Aurora is still with us is as much a fun fantasy as these boxes, so why not?
Your idea for "Movie Star Livery passenger jets" is also inspired. (Too bad you didn't include the "Trans American" 707 from the 1980 "Airplane!" in that lineup.) Another idea might be issues of private aircraft in the livery of famous billionaires. One could be the Amodel Dassault Falcon 50 in the livery of Taylor Swift's private plane. It could be marketed as, "The plane that broke (up with) the sound barrier . . . ."
Great box art again. l love the space ships they're great . The dinosaurs back in the 60s and 70s , while not anitomically correct wear still brilliant l love the one from 1,000,000 Years BC done by Ray Harryhauser . I think the Brontosauarus became the Apatasaurus , if l remember correctly 🤔.... 👍
Thank You. The capability to pose them was really cool.
I think the Brachiosaurus is more upright like a Giraffe.
With your 'Airport' paintings, I was rather hoping to see the aircraft (a Douglas or Convair jet?) from 'Airplane!', and possibly the shuttle from the sequel.
Great video, though. You do incredible work. Thank you. 👍👍👍
Would need the Otto Pilot figure!
Some of Aiport 77 also featured on a episode of Airwolf
Interesting. Was one of the main charcters on board the plane? Or was Airwolf searching for the wreck?
This is a GREAT SERIES if these had only existed. You should do another Enemy Mine version of the first BTA fighter which was more like a yellow space shuttle shape. They had filmed sequences of the BTA fighters and then scrapped all the footage when the film changed director's from Richard Loncrane to Wolfgang Petersen. They kept the Drag raider the same. This was all explained in an article in Cinefex magazine they basically reshot the whole movie. It would have been interesting to see the first version it might have done better at the box office.
I had heard about the troubled production. I am notbsure ho much of it was done. I ha e seen the first version of the ships. They look too much like a Space Shuttle for me or something from 'Space:1999'. I like the new BTA fighters that appear in the film. I also really like how lightweight the space station/aircraft carrier thing's interiors looked. The sets and the hangar bay.
Yeah you are right it does look like the space glider from Space 1999. Speaking of which that would make a good fantasy box art subject. It's a wonder MPC hasn't done a kit of that in their Space 1999 series of kits.
How about a kit of one of the "conga line" snowploughs in "Airport"?
The ship from Dark Star and I think the one from “Navigator” can be bought as Resin “garage” kits.
It's pure speculation, but perhaps Boeing were not too keen on their aircraft being constantly crashing in the 'Airport' films, so asked the kit makers not to further promote the films?
More than likely. Although the planes themselves were always depicted in a good light. The disasters were never a failing in the aircraft and in fact they soldiered on in the face of adversity. But I can certainly imagine why they might be reluctant to endorse kits associated with 'disaster movies' .
Yes, Dark Star was a very strange movie!
There have been some aftermarket transfers for the Boeing 747 from Airport 1975 ( Colombia Airlines) in 1/200 Scale, made some years back . Would like to see some 1/ 72 scale transfers for the Douglas C-47 Skytrain/Dakota from the film A Brigade To Far.
Many years ago (1980) there was a TV movie/pilot for a series that never made it in to production called The Secret War of Jackie's Girls. A team of female pilots fly helicopters in WW2, on various special covert missions. The helicopters were dressed up to look like the open cockpit Sikorsky VS-300 - that would make a really great model, and a good movie tie-in.
I dont think they had Helicopters in WW2 did they?
@@Matteline Actually, yes. The Luftwaffe had several types in service, and the Americans had the Sikorsky R-4. All were used in very small numbers, but they were there. Korea was the first war in which they were used in large numbers.
"Who's flying the plane?"
"One of the stewardesses".
"WE'RE GONNA DIIIIIEEEEE!"
- "Airport '75"
How come none of the Dino kits included a little plastic Raquel Welch?
Yes! An excellent question. Why were none included?
For airliner kits how about the DC-4 (or DC-6 or M-404 or CV-240) from the 1957 movie Zero Hour! ? That Revell Space Shuttle and 747 set is just calling out for a Moonraker version.
I loved my Aurora dinos as a kit and have collected the set as an adult (3 caves and counting!!!!!). The Stegosaurus was prototyped but never released (apart from a limited garage type resin version).
Not sure Boeing would have been happy with Airport themed kits.......
I wondered about that. I can imagine them maybe frowning if the kits were release with 'damaged' sections. But they must have been OK to allow their use in the films. In all of the films the aircraft are co vexed in a very positive way. Especially Aiport. The disasters and troubles involved are never anything to do with any sort of fault or shortcoming in the aircraft. In fact the planes excel in the challenging circumstances :)
Bronto and Brach are actually different animals...Brach is bigger and has a different shaped head with a small frill on the top with a blow hole that the Bronto dudnt have.
Thanks for clarifying. When i was a kid there was also a Diplodocus, which had a similar body type to the Brontosaurus - but leaner I think. You don't seem to hear those referenced as much any more, the Brachiasuar seems to have taken their spot in the Dino Top 10. But I didnt realise they were different aniamls.
I assume the movie tie ins would have been subject to the studios agreement, and they would have wanted their cut of the merchandising, which may have been more than the kits would have grossed for the maker. The other option is Mattel or Kenner for arguments sake, may have already had the contract to produce vehicles from the films, and they wouldn’t want Airfix/Revell/Heller muscling in on their expensive option, even if they didn’t have plans to produce a 1:144 model of the plane.
I am sure there are all sorts of behind the scenes reasons. Someone suggested that back in the Model Kits were more for kids and the 'soapy' Airport movies with people.having affairs and heart attacks and all sorts.... were not particularly well suited to kids products.⁹
Hopefully, none of the plastic pterodactyls had bat-wings like the ones in the film.
Disappointed you couldn't tie in Airplane! and Airplane II the Sequel
"..surely.yoi can't be serious"
You didn’t make stuff about realistic catastrophe films back then
yes, the Airport films were for adult audience - at least initially. All of the films all go above and beyond in showing the aircraft in the best possible light - excelling in the catastrophic situations.
@@Matteline yeah ,was to answer your question why they didn’t make sets since its simply normal planes who existed as kits , but no one wants a negative publicity even if the end worked out it was still scary back then and you didn’t want to be related to that at the time as PR manager.