Battle of Britain (1969) Movie in 1/72nd Scale 

I was around 10yrs Old when the filming for this Movie was being Done. And a Remember a Glorious Summer Sky filled with Fighters & Jerry Bombers flying over M&D's house in Benfleet Essex. My Mother was rather Reluctant to watch when a Gaggle of Bombers came over..! At that age, it didn't dawn on me She was having 'Flashbacks' to 1940. She was living in Stratford London in 1940..! I however was Running around with Grand Dad's Old Helmet on..! Having a Ball in the 60's. He a wounded Vet from WW1, so was an ARP warden for WW2. Dad took me to the Movies Twice to Watch the Movie. Mum didn't want to go at all..! Time with Dad Alone without Mum was a very Rare Event..! And of Course Grand Dad's 'Junk Shed' was an Anderson Shelter..! That was Out in the Sticks in Benfleet too..! That Music still gives me 'Goose bumps' nearing 70 years of age..! Nice Models, well Done. Cheers All from Downunder. 🦘

Saw the movie when it was first released in 1969. I was at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus at the time and being an RAF station you can imagine how big the queues were to get in to see the movie. A movie i never tire of watching.

Fascinating information making an Iconic film even more iconic 55 yrs later!

Fan bloody tastic...brings a tear to me eye...saw this movie at the Whyalla Drive-in sometime in 1970 when I was a nine year old lad.

The apostrophe monster was very busy in the making of this video😊.

Nice job! I was 5 when my dad took me to see the movie at the theater. I've been hooked on WW2 aircraft ever since. I have the album too!

fantastic selection of kits! this film is probably the reason I first built a model kit back in the early 70's after it was shown on TV, some years back I converted a Mk V spitfire into a screen accurate version, used a resin conversion set to turn a 109 G into a buchon, and also still have a resin buchon unbuilt, plus an italeri He 111 I previously built waiting to have some spare merlins grafted on and then a battle of Britain 69 paint job applied. and a bit of film trivia, at the time of making the film, all the aircraft gathered for it were recognised as the worlds 7th or 8th largest air force in the world!

In 1969 or maybe 1970 I saw this film for the first time as a lad 0f 10 0r 11 years old. It led to an immediate trip to the library to find some youth history books about it. One book I read was about the "Eagle" squadrons of Yanks who flew for the RAF during the battle. I have been a lifelong amateur WW2 historian ever since. I still will try to watch this film every year. Brilliant acting, cinematography, and of course the flying! Thanks for the beautiful models and the information about the actual facts.

Awesome. Iconic film with a great soundtrack. The Luftwaffe March and William Walton's Battle in the Air are incredible

“Is everything up?” “The lot sir.” “Reserves?” “None.” “That just what I’ve told the prime minister.”

That’s just brilliant! I really like how you have shown how the aircraft looked during filming. Didn’t know about the Stuka, really interesting. It’s great to be able to model Buchon’s now too.

Excellent work! I first saw the film upon its opening run in Melbourne way back in 1970. Thanks to VHS tapes and DVDs, countless views ever since! When looking into the possibility of modelling a CASA 2.111 albeit in 1/144 scale, I noted that almost all the aircraft codes - RAF and Luftwaffe - were fictitious, with one notable exception. That is the Hawker Hurricane Mk IIc (G-AMAU), now a part of the BBMF, when it was painted up to represent Air Vice Marshall Trevor Howard's - sorry, Keith Park's - personal aircraft, OK-1.

Brilliant. "Did you get one?". "All I got was a belly-full of English Channel". Lost count of how many times I've watched this film. A classic.

I was 14 when the film came out and a corporal in the Air Training Corps. We were taken to a local cinema to see the film and were allowed to wear our uniform. It was wide sceen and in stereo, as the planes came on screen the sound went from one side of the auditorium to the other, marvellous.

Watched the movie as a kid back in the 70s. Lord I so miss those days thanks for the memories

Unforgettable experience seeing this with my Dad and brother when it was released.

I was lucky enough to look inside these HE 111s on their transit through Jersey for the film ! Many 109s and a spitfire flew in on way

Excellent information along with the superb work on the kits!! Brilliant

I’d forgotten just how good the music soundtrack to this film was. Haven’t seen it in years but it brought it all back! Great idea for a video. Well done 👍

Great job!Loved the models,and the film.Saw it in 1969 aged 11.Also got the album!Never tire of watching this film.

Excellent! Hat's off! What a smashing look at a piece of filmic and WWII history! Add to that the well-researched and spiffing models and you have all the boxes well and truly ticked ✅️✅️✅️✅️

It's extraordinary the difference between British and American film makers in the lengths they go to, to make it real... Battle of the Bulge was made in what was virtually a desert in summer without a single real German tank. The original Dunkirk film included actual footage from Dunkirk. There's was the Glory featured many men who were actually involved in Market Garden.

Great movie, perhaps my favourite war history movie. Very interesting to see the movie versions of the combat aircraft. The Battle of Britain was such a pivotal point in WWll often not remembered as well as it should be outside of the UK.

Many thank's for posting the picture's of scale model's that represent the plane's that flew on both side's of the conflict... (btw you forgot the "plural apstrophe" in "Hurrischmitts")

I remember as a kid wondering why they painted all the Buchons the same...Once you've gone to all the trouble of moding the Buchons a little variety in authentic BOB paint schemes always seemed like a missed opportunity to me...The Spits and Hurris didn't have the same variety as the Bf109s during this period.....Brilliant idea to model the aircraft specifically from the film...Thank you

THANKS FOR SHARING!! I Can't Believe There's Still One Flying From The Battle Of Britain! I'll Never See One But It's Still Nice To Know It's There!

Very cool collection! Had no idea they actually got hold of a Stuka. The only BoB movie replica i've managed so far is a 1/48 Buchon painted as "red 2".

Love the original movie dearly but really love to see an epic Battle of Britian movie with today's digital tech.

Flying officer ‘Dickie’ Lee of 85 Squadron was demonstrating a Hawker Hurricane to some ‘brass’ at Debden around the time of the Battle of Britain. The ground crew had to pick grass out of his radio antenna. He later went missing over the English Channel.

Still the best aerial scenes ever filmed and could not be repeated today.

If I understood correctly, movie-Buchon-"109's" had a camouflage painting scheme 70/02/65. In this video, model-Buchon was painted with genuine 70/71/65. So, instead of black green was RLM 02 grey-green in use. 70/71/65 were not at all a "bad" mistake, but in front bases were sometimes difficulties to obey strict orders from Berlin. 70/71/65 means dark green/black green/pale blue (in undersides). RLM is a short form of "Reichsluftfahrtministerium" or Reich Air Ministry. Vielen Dank, und Halsundbeinbruch aus Finnland.

Thanks chaps! Very nice video, and informative. Ah, the good old days before digital simulations.

Great background information. 👍

The best versions of the film are obviously the unedited prints. "Good afternoon my ar*e.....! Nice models, made up nicely. Excellent job.

Sadly an unfinished project of my teenage years in the 70’s was to build the main planes from the Battle of Britain (Airfix 1/72 scale) My Spitfire IIa had strips of masking tape for the cockpit harness details.

This was so awesome, and really interesting to read some of the little-known facts. I love how the producers restored a spit to flying condition - "I say, you wouldn't mind just fixing up that spit so we can make our movie would you? there's a good chap' - lol. Try doing that today, it would probably cost more than the movie. Thanks again.

I remember seeing this at my local Odeon. There was a circular staircase to the gallery and they had hung a net across the atrium and filled it with all manner of model kits, some appropriate, some ... maybe not quite to "period" but it sure made an impression.

Thought they were 109 types behind the Hurricanes in the 'Repeat Please' scene. When freeze framed though I could see RAF roundals. Today I learn they are Buchon Spanish aircraft, and the rest you explained, thanks. I've looked up 'Buchon plane' for more information. Useful.

Excellent presentation. it was good to learn some details about the aircraft used in the flying sequences. The video would have been extra jolly if the turntable had been rotating clockwise for the RAF models and anti-clockwise for the Luftwaffe models.

Hurricanes and Spitfires were painted half white and half black on their bottom surfaces under the order of Dowding for ground ID purposes. This is correctly shown in the movie for the Hurricanes in France. The movie Dunkirk correctly shows the Spits with this scheme. Mid June Dowding changed his mind and ordered all Fighter Command aircraft undersides painted with the new Sky (a very light bluish green still used by the RN in the Falklands in early 80s). But there were not enough paint stocks so darker duck egg blue, duck egg green (very green), and sky blue (closest to light blue) were used during summer until there was enough Sky in late summer early fall. After the big switch to all green and grey for fighter command in summer 41 Sky was still used for spinners, tail band and side lettering. And for undersides in RN.

Thank you for this! I have the DVD and the Soundtrack CD - wasn't aware about the Morse Code use by the CASA crews!

The stuff one learns on a Sunday morning !!

Very interesting, well researched. The integrity of authentification for the film was impressive, one of the reasons why this remains in my mind the best of the WWII flight movies.

Simply wonderful. I had forgotten what the album poster looked like, brings back great memories:)

"Home and tea. Good job everybody"

Beautiful collection! May I suggest an addition to it : the colorful camera-carrying B-25 N65780 😊

Bloody Marvellous !

Great idea for a video and very well done. Pity about the JU52 model, but I really enjoyed whatyou'vedone. Thanks from another guy with too many kits in the loft.

"Don't just stand there, get one up", awesome video with some nice facts about the movie's production well done.

I had thought you would actually film a game. Oh well. Nice models. Thank you for the notes on the movie.

Love the subtitles: great information. Thanks for sharing your beautiful models too. Keep up the great work.

😊👍 REALLY ENJOYED THIS… ❤ Thanks a lot for making it & uploading it!

Excellent video. A ton of hard work went into making this presentation. Nicely done and be very proud of your video. 😊😊😊

Beautifully done.

Only 2 He111s flew in the UK? No. I saw at least a dozen, maybe 14, at an airshow at RAF Debden, sometime in the late '60s. It was the most amazing spectacle, all those 111s and Bf109s. Never forget it!

Absolutely superb and some great model making to bring such a great idea to life. Take a well deserved bow.

Well done, great Idea 👍🏻

Very creative and well done project. Great info on the film, which has always been a favorite of mine. Cheers!

Congratulations on a job well done "Home and tea for once you've earned it" many thanks 👍😃

Wonderful. The models here are lovely and the original film, as the famous remembrance words say, "...will grow not old, as we that are left grow old". It's a fantastic archive film and the most stupendous film making achievement when one considers the insanity and cost of assembling so many airworthy (just!) WWII aircraft. Nowadays, it's almost all CGI and although some moments in 'The Battle of Britain' are a bit basic and wobbly due to early effects, the CGI versions today are so often just wrong in the way the animators do not understand the dynamics of actual flight and how aircraft roll and turn into a fight. This video has sparked my desire to watch it all over again!! Thank you ! 😊

I saw it at the Officers' club at HMS TERROR, Singapore, the night before it was released in the UK

Where was the Ju-52? Watched the film at least 10 times and have never noticed the Hurrischmitts before, will have to have another look. Apparently the communication was made even more complex because they could only get the morse code units to work in Spanish 😂

Well done! This movie has aged like a good bottle of scotch - it gets better and better for each year. And it is brilliant to see the explanations and story connected to each model. Well done everybody - home and tea❤

One of the Heinkels flew over our school when they were filming, naturally all us boys could id it immediately

What aspect of the Hurricane II’s appearance needed to be changed to make it resemble a Mk.1, apart from the paint scheme?

The opening sequence is incredible.

The full movie is/was available on RU-vid plus several interesting "making of B of B" docos.

A very nice collection. I remember seeing this film in Brisbane when it was released, I was about 13 or 14 years of age. Being an avid WW2 aircraft nut even back then I immediately spotted the Buchon's and although I had no idea they existed I was most incensed that the Bf109's had their engine exhausts up high rather than down low where they should've been. Later in life I found out the details through the Internet and then purchased the 2 disk set of the movie and have watched it regularly over the years. I recall walking out of the cinema into the foyer and seeing Dinky Toys Spitfire Mk11 and I think Bf109 models with retractable undercart and other wondrous things and not coming near to having enough money to buy them....this I rectified later in life also.

Top notch film that was a revelation to me with so many good aircraft. I was nearing the end of my plastic kit career. In those days 1/72 kits cost $.50 and 1/48 were $1. WWII warbirds of course. It was starting to be mandatory that to buy model glue, one had to buy a model kit! This to placate the authorities trying to prevent fools from sniffing the solvents therein. It was also one of those periodic proscriptions of any “war toys” in stores. Mind you, for us, older brothers were being drafted & sent to Vietnam. I wasn’t called up but I still have my draft card. What strange times.

Great models and fascinating info. Thanks.

Interesting...it's easy for historians to pick holes in the movie, but it's far better than what's come since. I think clips of the A 2 A sequences have appeared in many more films since.

Absolutely top hole,old bean. Beware the Huns in the sun,Ginger. 👍😎. Great mix of models and stats,brilliant 👍😃. Thanks for showing and best wishes from jolly old Norfolkshire 👍😎Pete 🤓

My chum can recall as a school boy the many hurries and spits consigned to the scrappy and collected in an around RAF St Athan, here in Glamorgan. The station retained the historic aircraft collection for many years until relocated to the less accessible current Duxford collection.

Thank you very much for this very nice video with all these interesting informations about this classic movie! Can we hope for a future version including the Bf-108 and the Ju-52 too?

First time seeing this 1 AUGAST 2024……. I’ve been really getting into the BATTLE of BRITAIN lately…. The History behind it…. The Leaders…. And of course THE AIRCRAFT !!!!!!!!! I have a series of 1/72 MODEL KITS of the Aircraft From AIRFIX , REVELL I’m talking about VINTAGE MODEL KITS… No matter what, they’re still great model kits to build……. VINTAGE MODELS ON ….. CHRIS 🇺🇸

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing!

The film is pretty much THE ww2 movie of all time and is over 50 years old, no one could replicate this film now.

2:12 - Showing Hurricane with a Superman 1 movie sounding tune. I noticed that later on when I watched b of b again few years ago

It's a fantastic movie, one of my personal top 5, infact I only watched it just over a week ago. Now I'm going to have to watch it again, just so I can spot the differences that you've pointed out!

He podido ver de cerca en la base aérea de Tablada, donde fueron rodadas algunas secuencias de esta película, a un He111 y un messersmitt buchón que participaron en esta película.

Love the film mostly because (I think) most of the aircraft were real airplanes. No CGI cartoon.

Great video well done!

Britain won, and as we can see, the apostrophe Nazis were kept away. (Nice models and history, my good fellows).

very good

What do you need to film this? A staffel of spitfires

Fascinating. I read Leonard Mosley's book that came out at the same time as the film, and of course saw the film when it was released. It's still an annual viewing. I knew about the difficulties with the Ju-87s, but didn't realise - or had forgotten - that they actually had one static running. There's always something new to learn. Some info on the kits themselves would be interesting too. For future reference, we don't form plurals with apostrophes in English. It was very distracting in an otherwise great video.

That's Air Vice Marshall Park!

Welldone everybody home and tea!

Your Stuka is the later model not used in 1940 with the smaller intake

TIL. Thanks!

Ha! Seen the movie countless times but never spotted those camouflaged Messerschmitts flying in the Polish formation.

What about the Percival Proctors converted into Stukas that were not used after conversion

Why did they take the trouble to cammo them and then put those bloody great big shiny white letters on them?

A Spitfire for 25 quid!

Good models! So, they had a real Stuka, they managed to get it running, but it never appeared taxiing, running, or in any close ups? As far as I can remember? Did they miss a golden opportunity there?

Oh yes, and I wish I could buy a real Spitfire for £25!!, how times have changed!

You missed the ju 52.

Watched the film last night for the umpteenth time.

Brilliant!😂

At the end of WW II, you could go to N. American and buy a factory fresh P-51D for $750.00