Kit Bashing - Models in Thunderbirds

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This video looks at some of the plastic model kits that were most commonly utilised in the modelwork created by Derek Meddings and his talented team of Visual Effects artists and technician for the TV Series 'Thunderbirds'.
Gerry Anderson created a fantastic world in his 1965 TV show showcasing incredible futuristic machines. The Supermarionation show used miniatures and vfx to convey this world and a level of credibility never before achieved was seen every week.
Although sleek and futuristic in appearance the ships look real and used. Part of the key to their believability lies in a technnique developed during the show which is now known as 'kit bashing'. Commercially available plastic model kits, were liberally mined for interesting detail parts that culd be used to detail the futurtistic vehicles and locations. The imagination, creativity and skill at work in the making of this show was, and still is, unparalleled. This is a tiny glimpse behind the curtain.
I am just a fan of the show and these videos are purely my opinions based on the available information, research and some speculation.
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@JagoHazzard 11 месяцев назад

Once you first spot the Airfix kit parts, you can't stop seeing them. I think Thunderbirds got progressively more realistic with its models as the series went on. In the early episodes it's all bubble domes and fins, later on the design gets more down-to-earth.

@andrewemery4272 11 месяцев назад

"And a special thank you to Airfix: you are the supports to my Truss..."

@helmutquad-sd9yn 11 месяцев назад

For me, every part of Aiifix is new. I never knew how many special railroad parts Airfix sold. I only bought WW2 planes and trucks from Airfix. This was a very interesting video !

@kevinmaloney2391 11 месяцев назад

You need to mention that it was Derek who came up with the idea to use model kit parts to enhance the detail. Many people credit ILM for coming up with the idea but it just shows what a creative and innovative genius Derek was.

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the feedback. Yeh Derek was an incredible talent. and the work they did on the Anderson shows - especially Thundrbirds - is some of the best vfx work ever put on film. I did mention that Derek and his team came up with this technique in the first 20 seconds of the video. I wanted to dive into the actual models. not do a history of the technique. maybe a bina fide subject for anotehr video, I made a video a few years back where I made a futuristic fighter plane out of kit parts and talk about the origins of kit bashing there. Here is a link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--emGYxmLmHk.html

@philipmccloy6502 11 месяцев назад

How special effects have changed the movie industry. Can you imagine if your everyday household 3d printer was about in this era,the fun they would have had. 😊

@garfieldsmith332 11 месяцев назад

Awesome video. Enjoyed the shows and model work ever since Supercar. Never realised until decades later that a lot of parts were source by kit bashing. Your videos take this to a new level showing these model kit sourced parts and where they came from. It must have been a fun time for the special effects crew to visit hobby store, craft shops, and discount stores and fill their shopping karts with kits of all genres. Thanks for taking the time to research this and post it. Drop into Max's live-streams so we can all sat hello and thank you. Take care.

@brianartillery 11 месяцев назад

Another Airfix kit used in large amounts, was the 'Pontoon Bridge' - both the girder rails and chequerplate decks. Another thing that kit parts were often used for was explosion debris - small amounts scattered, with balsa scraps and fullers' earth, on top of models that were to be blown up. The high speed photography used, then shows pieces of rubble, etc., ostensibly from the building, falling to earth. The explosion at the start of every Thunderbirds episode, shows this off beautifully.

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment :) I don't the Airfix 'pontoon bridge' was available in the 1960s. And according to 'scalemates.com' it was first issued in 1970... so I guess it could have been used in UFO. But I can't think of an instance off hand. The Airfix Girder Bridge was used extesnively. Check out that video - there's a link in the description above - and see if that is what you are thinking of. Please let me know as I am always looking for new archeological finds :).

@stompieandsuzie 11 месяцев назад

Imagine the special effects guys from the 60s and 70s kitbashing with the sheer number, range and scales of kits available today!

@MrPolicekarim 9 месяцев назад

I know! Makes you want to take a lie down!

@loftlegacy 11 месяцев назад

Meddings was a genius and deserved his Oscar for his work on Moonraker and later a BAFTA for Goldeneye.

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Moonraker was nominated only, it did not win. 'Alien' won the vfx oscar that year. . Derek's work on Moonraker is stupendous, but I feel that 'Star Trek The Motion Picture' should have won. Other nominnes were 'The Black Hole' and '1941' so a pretty tough year. Derek won his oscar for 'Superman the movie'.

@zh84 11 месяцев назад

1:00 It made me smile to see the well-known sequence of Thunderbird 1 arriving at its launch station, and then you cheekily superimpose '7.5"' and '2.5"' to show us how big the set really is and spoil the suspension of disbelief! ;-) But apart from that I have always found it completely convincing, a tribute to the great Derek Meddings and his team. To borrow from Larry Niven, corners had been cut only where it wouldn't show.

@argy8141 11 месяцев назад

I'll never watch Thunderbirds in the same way again. Great vid

@lesigh1749 11 месяцев назад

It is amazing that this intricately detailed futuristic world was made with cheap plastic model kits and entirely created in Slough.

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

The models were expertly art directed this sort of work can easily go astray if not properly designed.... they designed great shapes and then detailed them. Like Star Wars.

@Meckiffe1976 11 месяцев назад

Born in 1961 here, obviously grew up with all this from my childhood in the UK. With the information you are dredging up here, I am even more in awe of what these guys were doing. The creativity and resourcefulness is staggering and humbling. This stuff brightened up countless boring suburban lives and imaginations in the '60's and '70's. I believe some of the FX guys got ill from the explosive chemicals they were using to give us this entertainment... they are giants!

@TryptychUK 11 месяцев назад

Some have said Derek Meddings died young (64) because of the toxic fumes from the pyrotechnics.

@jean-francoistasse7788 10 месяцев назад

When I was a kid, playing with model kits, Lego and figurines, I was having so much fun. You grow up and you tell yourself (or people tells you) that those things are for kids and you need to become an adult. The hardship of life hits you, having fun is complicated, expensive or just none existing and you battle anxiety, depression etc Now I am going back to a "simpler" time, where I am having fun creating figurines, building sets, doing stop motion and I dont give a flying fluff of what people or society thinks about what should be fun at what age. Ever since I stop doing things on the computer, which in the first place was supposed to make life easier, I am feeling more relax and I enjoy everything I do manually for fun, whatever time it take.

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

Great. Good for you.

@ernestgalvan9037 10 месяцев назад

”…I am having FUN…” FUN, the most important part of this, or any hobby. Sadly lost. Keep on having FUN, having a blast! ENJOY your time in your hobby!

@davidknight2220 11 месяцев назад

This is brilliant, really inspirational work. Thanks for sharing

@SharpblueCreative 11 месяцев назад

Not forgetting the matchbox cars and trucks they used a lot in the series along with corgi and many others.

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Yes... that's a whole video or two. As a kid I had one of the lorries that you see at London Airport.

@Sarah-JaneR32 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video, the old kits I built back in the 60’s and 70’s wow, always enjoy your videos

@neilbedford5082 11 месяцев назад

I love Airfix and love Thunderbirds but I can only marvel at you have managed to spot so many obscure uses of kit parts. I have spotted a few over the years but these are almost all new to me - well done.

@GratuitousSets 11 месяцев назад

Holy crap! Is this not the most perfect Gerry Anderson dive ever? Great work!

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Wow. Thank You! Please take a look at the other videos on my channel too. Not all Anderson related, but maybe of interest.

@alexhatfield2987 11 месяцев назад

Loved Thunderbirds and Airfix in the ‘60’s and early ‘70’s, as a boy. Loved making dioramas, blowing up models and filming it all with my mates. You taught me something fascinating on a trip down memory lane.

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

That's graet to hear. Thanks for the feedback.

@thommothommo1520 11 месяцев назад

I watched Thunderbirds simply to marvel at the models, sets and practical effects. But it never occurred to me how big these models were until you put them in context with the size of the parts. Even today if I see any Thunderbirds clips, I still blows my mind how skilled the model makers were on this show. Just imagine what they could do with 3D printers. Very interesting video.

@Jack_Warner 11 месяцев назад

I bought that footbridge in 1976 for my layout I had in the loft.

@Bob.Jenkins 11 месяцев назад

I loved Thunderbirds and watched every episode from the first to last as they were aired. I often wonder how those amazing model creators would have reacted to the installation of a modern 3-D Printer in their workshops... with awe and avarice is my guess.😄

@modelermark172 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for doing all the necessary research to make this fascinating video! As an aside, I hope that Airfix will reissue their SR-N1 Hovercraft as a Vintage Classic! I missed getting one back in the day . . . .

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Thand for the feedback. I have a feeling the SRN1 is pretty high on a lot of people's wishlist for some 'vintage classic' love. Fingers crossed. I'd love to see do this as 1/24th scale kit. It would make for a realy cool kit and it is a piece of history!

@AndyBrice 10 месяцев назад

It is funny how the models of aircraft, space rockets etc don't look that dated today. But the control panels are another story!

@richardclark6753 11 месяцев назад

Loved this video. Thank you so much. The level of imagination and inventiveness shown in Thunderbirds and other Gerry Anderson shows is beyond anything made today. Everyone that worked on these shows deserves our admiration. This video adds to understanding the level of their imagination. Can't wait for more like this👏👌👍

@johnhughes2653 11 месяцев назад

The irony is that there are now model kits of models made from model kits.

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

The 1/48th scale Eagle Transporter is so detailed that you can actually make out the kit parts that were stuck on it. One part used on the original 44" Eagle miniature is from the lunar module that is included in the Airfix Saturn V kit. We have the Saturn V kit and compared this piece to the 1/48th MPC Eagle..and it is exactly twice the size - as it should be as the MPC 1/48th is half the size of the original model. What fun. Also in the Star Wars Battlefront video game, you can climb around on top of the Millennium Falcon. it is not super hi-res up there, but good enough to identify some kit parts such as a Jagdpanther hull!

@lewistaylor1965 11 месяцев назад

Great vid...As a hobby Airfix modeler this is fascinating to me...I use to watch Thunderbirds in the 70's although I was never a big fan...I was a bit alienated by the fact it was very American ironically when it wasn't...I still don't understand why it wasn't a huge success in the US at the time, I mean it must have been aimed at the US market otherwise everything could have just as easily made very British...I think the US missed a trick...Anyway, I have so much more appreciation of Gerry Andersons work these days...Harryhausen was my idol too in those days

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for commenting. I think part of the reason that it did'nt catch on was that they split the 1 hour episodes into 2 half hours. I guess to fit certan time slots. I have spoken to some American friends and they say they recall it being on but it 'never ended properly' (probablsy because it was sliced in half!)

@lewistaylor1965 11 месяцев назад

@@Matteline That's interesting...makes sense...Looks like Thunderbirds was killed before it had a chance...US broadcasters feeling their kids had low attention spans...or adverts would have made the episodes 90 mins long too...Real shame I think because US is where the money would have been...I like the fact they were low budget though...Same with DR.Who and Red Dwarf...the low budget made them quirky and they lose something when they become expensive and 'safe'...As a kid I was convinced Thunderbirds was American and the characters were stereotypical and schmaltzy which I didn't like...but I understand why now

@stephenchandler1267 11 месяцев назад

The yellow 'ASR' aircraft - F-104 fuselage for sure, tail fin changed and under-slung engine added... Amazing how just painting in the rear of the canopy helps the disguise.. Also think the red and silver 'Z' jet uses the F-104 as a base

@velcroman11 11 месяцев назад

A study of the Thunderbird’s “kit bashing” would be a great dissertation for someone attempting an Arts Phd.

@Water_Rabbit 11 месяцев назад

Wonderful story. You simply can't replicate the level of care, detail and authenticity in these classic models with modern CGI. Thank you for posting.

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for commenting. There is certainly a unique appeal to this type of work done well. Like hand drawn Animation compared to CG. Incidentally I saw a test shot, done recently, that reproduced in CG a shot of the Millennium Falcon from the asteroid sequence in 'the Empire Strikes Back'. It was supervised by Dennis Muren, so there is that.... but it looked exactly the same as the original shot that was done originally for the film with models and opticals

@jerrybailey5797 11 месяцев назад

Great video Matt . Its very interesting learning how they kitbashed buildings and vehicles from model kits on Thunderbirds , fascinating . 👍

@Name-ps9fx 11 месяцев назад

Excellent video on kitbashing! I first heard about this method when the original BSG came out. I got the board game (yes, there was one, and I bought it! LOL) and it had a detailed pic of the Galactica....while gawking at it, I noticed a German WW2 panzer barrel, and then a tank's bogie wheel! The entire six-foot long ship was "decorated" with such things! It was a ton of fun trying to identify as much as I could, since I was also into WW2 stuff. I bet you had a lot of enjoyment on this too! (I laughed when you pointed out the AMT "sign"...that's the ultimate in kit bashing, using part of the cardboard box on a set!)

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the feedback. There's a shot in one of the epsiodes - I can't recall which one - and there is a row of shops with HAWK, REVELL and AMT signage. Ha The Galactica, the Millennium Falcon and the Cylon ships were graet to pore over. I think the Cylon Base Stars model has parts from the Airfix SRN1 hovercarft kit.

@Wild-Dad 11 месяцев назад

Well done! They kit bashed stuff just like ILM did for all the Star Wars ships. You could tell though the budget for same - Airfix for the Thunderbirds - Tsmiya and Hasegawa for Star Wars. LOL

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

don't forget 2001 A Spaec Odyssey. that set the standard look, and expecttaion for what spaceships should look like. And don't forget when they were making Thudnerbirds I think Airfix and some of the foreign train set stuff was all that was available in the UK. But yeh I thought about that too. But even Star Wars has some Airfix kit parts from the 1/24th scale Me 109 and Harrier superkits!

@Wild-Dad 11 месяцев назад

@@Matteline - yep - totally agree!!! Unfortunately, I don't remember ever seeing any of those Airfix kits in the early 70's when I started my HO layout. There were lots of other kits from Europe that could be found in our local hobby shop, (Vollmer, Falker, etc) but I honestly don't remember these Airfix kits. But then, Thinderbirds and all such were all in the 60's so I probably missed them as my parents usually stayed in dept stores as opposed to going specifically to hobby stores.

@davidjames6879 11 месяцев назад

Thanks very much for showing how imagination and reimagination create very effective effects. I loved Thunderbirds back when I was about 8-11, maybe 12 yrs old (many reruns!)

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching and commenting. Yeh, the work the team put into these shows was incredible.

@andrewh.8403 11 месяцев назад

The technical term I recall is "Greeblies". (ref: Adam Savage- Tested). Knowing the size of these greeblies certainly gives a very clear idea of the large scale of the models. They're huge!

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Yes Indeed. I created a graphic which shows the kit pat most commonly used by the Meddings team. It is from the Airfix Girder Bridge kit and shows up on so many models in the Anderson shows and for me I think it is the ORIGINAL Greeblie! . The graphic is available via 'redbubble'. www.redbubble.com/i/apron/Original-Greeblie-by-matteline/146664799.6ZXWR Also Check out my 'Girder birdge' video for more info. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-__90Sm0gfYM.html

@3Dsfinfo 11 месяцев назад

Depends on your definition of "technical". :) The word "greebly" appears to originate with George Lucas and the Star Wars team. The models in this video predate that film by a decade!

@TryptychUK 11 месяцев назад

@@3Dsfinfo I agree. The Brits called them "Widgets". "Greebly" is an American term.

@nigelcarren 11 месяцев назад

Jeez, and I thought I was a geek... Respect!!! 🏆 Best wishes from a movie-armour maker who has accidentally become a miniature specialist (Eating life-size Weetabix whilst watching this!). Subscribed 👍⚒️🇬🇧

@jeffhowe2892 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely stunning. It's rare for me to watch a RU-vid video all the way through but with this one I couldn't look away. I grew up watching XL5, Stingray and Thunderbirds and this is a wonderful insight into the making of. I'm a 3d modeler, I did do the Thunderbirds years ago. Interestingly I make my own "kitbash" parts which I re-use on lots of models. It's surprising how similar they are to the kit parts you have shown here. Thanks for making this wonderful video.

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

Thank You. I tried to keep it brisk and to the point. too many YouTibe video meander along. I try to keep my videos engaging. Its good to know that the work put in is appreciated.

@jeffhowe2892 10 месяцев назад

I grew up with Four Feather Falls, Supercar, XL5, Stingray and then Thunderbirds. I still love them now. You really opened my eyes, Thanks Again :0) @@Matteline

@davegillbert8947 9 месяцев назад

Cant imagine ho much fun it would be to work on Thunderbirds, making sci fi models them blowing them up!

@Sgt_Bill_T_Co 11 месяцев назад

As a child of the 50's and 60's I really appreciate this, the amount of work you put in and the work GA's team put in is mind boggling! THanks.

@pauladams286 11 месяцев назад

Another great history video, thank you. Keep them coming !

@bigdave6390 10 месяцев назад

I loved the actual human hands on the close ups of the controls.

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

in the earlier shows - Fireball XL5 - the human hands had what what looked like smooth surgical gloves, so they looked more plastic-y - like the real puppet hands.

@bigdave6390 10 месяцев назад

@@Matteline Cool. I didn't know that.

@OdeeOz 11 месяцев назад

I had most of these as Original Models that I built back in the 60s. 👍👍 10⭐ Do kids even still build anything more than Legos anymore?

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

I am glad I grew up at the time I did. There are more model kits made today than ever before. And they are arguably better nowadays. But are not aimed at kids. As a kid if a model was too complex I would leave those bits off..or not paint paint the canopy framing. Nowadays they make ssome implified versions for kids or beginners. Maybe this si apealing to kids. I don't know. To me it seems like it is missing the point, the fun was making your own details, or taking on bigger kits with more parts. or doing that same kit again, but better this time.

@OdeeOz 11 месяцев назад

Wish I could go back to those days @@Matteline Heck, just send my mind back tot he body, and I'd be happy as ever.

@markfergerson2145 11 месяцев назад

This brought back memories of building and kitbashing models in the 1960s. Those accessory packs in particular were very useful. Occasionally when I didn’t have money to buy a kit I would cobble something together from leftover parts and those accessory kits, usually fanciful spaceships inspired by science fiction magazine covers of the day. One of the accessory packs was a chrome turbine engine kit which was first installed in a dune buggy (replacing the VW engine) then later swapped out for the twin V8 from a Studebaker kit, finally I built a spacecraft around it. I know I’ve seen that turbine in several Thunderbirds episodes but since I grew up in the US, I don’t get to see the show until later. I would have been extra thrilled to recognize all those bits and pieces at the time. Thanks for this.

@MrLogain85 11 месяцев назад

Really good video, fascinating level of detail and research. Ive been lucky to work with some people who made models for some of the later gerry Anderson stuff. My dad was lucky enough to meet him as a child (my grandfather worked at the studio at the time) and he recounted how he had some models from on of his shows on the back seat of his car.

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

wow - do you recall what the models were. One of h few surviving models from Thunderbirds is the blue 'hover bus' seen in The Mighty Atom. I think a couple of the planes from Captain Scarlet exist and a vehicle or two from UFo... but not much.

@davedareable 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic episode. I have been able to identify so many parts that had previously puzzled me. Thanks so much for this revealing episode.

@timcampbell1830 11 месяцев назад

Wonderful video. Appreciate all the work on highlighting the parts and showing exactly where they are! Enjoying these very much

@williammitchem8274 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic information...

@davidrosler5413 11 месяцев назад

My background started in visual effects with models and stop motion and I try to explain kit bashing and younger guys don't quite understand the level of sophisticated artistry involved. By contrast, the cheap space movie Stella Starcrash is a great example of kitbashing failure against which Meddings et al genius can be compared for appreciation. I'm sharing this great video you made with friends and will watch and share the others. This is great and the animated illustration parts are extremely well done and excellent for clarification. Thank you and I hope you make more. Fascinating, fascinating stuff. Really great.

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for commenting. The genius of what Meddings and the team did was that it all just looks right. It all blends togetehr. And everything had a level of credibility to it. Really amazing work. And they could put more design and modelling hours into the hero models. That original Thunderbird 2 is absolutely beautifiul. Yeh, 'Star Crash' is a hilarious example of what not to do. I saw an interview with one of the guys who worked on the VFX for that movie and he said that it was his first job and nobody on the crew had any vfx or film model-making experience and they really didn't know what they were doing. And they had no money! Fortunaetly the film is campy and the amateurish models and garish lighting actually work OK. Maybe better actually than if they had been more skillfully done. Anoher laughable bit of kit-bashing is in the made for TV movie 'The Amazing Captain Nemo' which featured a futuristic submarine made almost solely from what looks like (and is) a 1970s Mattel Eagle Trasnporter. And this was a Hollywood production.. with VFX supervised by L.B. Abbott!

@davidrosler5413 11 месяцев назад

@@Matteline my pleasure. Yeah, the the first time I saw Starcrash ship photos, i was astonished to see that they didn't just use kit parts too large and wrongly applied to the miniature ships, but the runners that hold the kit parts together in the box! Request: I assume you mean a space 1999 eagle. Do you have a photo of the nemo ship? Im very curious to see such an outrageous, in our faces use if a commercial model kit in its entirety. Maybe the producers of nemo figured licensing the rights to use the model kit was cheaper than a good team of model makers i've seen worse business decisions.

@TheCyberSalvager 10 месяцев назад

I started out in model railways in my mid teens (Early 1990s). It was about the same time as re-runs of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet were being aired on TV and I would watch those to draw a lot of modelling inspiration from them. I never knew that model railway kits were used in these shows until now. This has been quite an eye-opener!

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

Its a peak behind the curtain. Even when you know that a lot of the models are adorned with parts from model kits, it almost makes it even more magical. the stuff just looks so good. It is art. What they did. The model featured on the thumbnail of the giant reactor looks fantastic. Not fantastic for the time it was made. Not great for a TV show. It is simply fantastic!

@wearetomorrowspast.5617 11 месяцев назад

Love the Posidrive screws doubling as buttons on Brains' jacket. Cool vid, subbed.

@LesPaulDavis 9 месяцев назад

Airfix have just announced the SRN-1 is returning to their Vintage Classics range. 😄

@ickleshouse 10 месяцев назад

Still , we now see no need for 3d printers eh ? lol. I know they are amazing but the way the modeling team made do and scratch built is epic...

@pfield39 11 месяцев назад

Not Airfix but in Fireball XL5 the radar antenna atop the strangely rotating headquarters building/control tower is the antenna from the Corgi Karrier Mobile Decca Radar van. They also made a small ground radar "cab" with the same antenna, which is an excellent replica of the real Decca 424 radar antenna. The part is still available from replica parts suppliers.

@putonthespuds1 11 месяцев назад

Great video, thanks for the memories

@nickwilkinson5849 10 месяцев назад

I turned o guage soldiers in to a cricket team for a model railway. The bloke chucking a grenade made a fantastic bowler. 👍

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

That sounds ecellent!!

@marknonnenmacher1918 24 дня назад

Love this! Thank you!

@portland-182 11 месяцев назад

The SRN T piece also appears on the feet of the moonbus from 2001 a space odyssey

@ViewpointProd 11 месяцев назад

An incredibly intricate video, and extremely inspiring! fantastic work!

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much. If you havent already, please take a look at other videos on the channel.

@RailwayManiaNet 10 месяцев назад

Absolutely fantastic, thank you! I am a huge fan of kitbashing and Thunderbirds so this was brilliant.

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

Thank You for watching and commenting. Glad you like it. I am sure you have already, but pleade check out the other videos on the channel.

@RailwayManiaNet 10 месяцев назад

@@Matteline Absolutely. You probably already know this but the trolley that Thunderbird 3's crew ride in to get to the rocket itself is an Airfix/Dapol LOWMAC wagon kit :)

@rexpayne7836 10 месяцев назад

I grew up with the Thunderbirds and love the behind the scenes videos.😊

@Mcfreddo 28 дней назад

That's great. Loved your video today. It's the first one seen.

@Matteline 28 дней назад

Thanks for watching and the feedback. I hope you watch and enjoy more on the channel.

@smorris12 11 месяцев назад

"Which model kits can i interest you in, sir?" "Yes." Sorry, couldn't resist. Wonderful video!

@thephantomproductions 11 месяцев назад

Great video. I might have to try kitbashing some vehicles together.

@tonygardener4870 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating, thank you!

@paulsummers7462 10 месяцев назад

This is great, thanks! I was absolutely fascinated with this show as a kid and always wondered how all their sets and models got made.

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

Its incredible how much work they put into the shows. Stuff that you would never see on a TV broadcast in the 1960s. Incredible.

@cathopreicon 10 месяцев назад

Absolutely fascinating, so glad to discover your channel!

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

Thank You for the kind words

@TheX-3d 11 месяцев назад

These models were brilliant!

@andrewchandler980 11 месяцев назад

Please keep going with these. So interesting, thank you.

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

Thank You for watching and taking the time to comment :)

@tarzan8575 11 месяцев назад

It would be interesting to know what the Airfix executives at the time thought the sudden increase in sales and then finding out they were used in Thunderbirds.

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

I knwo. I counted at lesst 50 ider bridge kist in the rocket hanger model from the live-action movie 'Doppleganger'!! I did write to Airfix asking if there were any records of this. bulk/direct orders in the Slough area in the mid 1960s. but of course I have yet to get any sort of response. I find it hard to believ that Derek and the gang would all pile down to Woolworths and buy dozens of these things at a time. But maybe they did. What a story that would be.

@normanfawley7379 11 месяцев назад

I found this fascinating !

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Thank You. Please check out the Matteline1967 channel for more in thei vein.

@raygomez6212 10 месяцев назад

The best parts of this show for me have always been the models, structures and special effects. Thank your for sharing this fascinating information.

@TransmissionEpicts 5 месяцев назад

!!! 0:54 I bought one of these girder bridge kits recently from a model show! It's been so useful! I've made a factory out of it (for a Castle Bromwich spitfire factory diorama) and some steam cranes for some dioramas depicting the construction of Cane Hill Hospital (the building shown on the US cover of Bowie's The Man Whole Stole the World). Great kit, this! Also, really enjoyed this video and your other one on the kit bashing for this show! Really cool to see how they put so many different models and scratch-builds together to create the stylish and consistent world of the show.

@lawrencemartin1113 10 месяцев назад

Excellent work! I remember my brother and I watching Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet to spot all the bits of kits we had built ourselves! It was as much fun as watching the story of each episode. Virtually all those bridge, gantry and hovercraft bits, we had also built, plus many others. The crane and numerous aircraft that I built. It got me into creating my own kit bashed scratch built aircraft as a youngster. I would often collect old kits from jumble sales and stuff thrown out by my friends, and use parts to create all sorts of helicopters and aircraft. A hobby in itself and so good for the imagination and development skills, rather than mery following a set of instructions to produce the kit from the box, (which I also absolutely loved BTW!). Thanks for sharing your clever detective work!

@jamieduff1981 11 месяцев назад

Aircraft models include lots of bits of F-104 Starfighters, Saab Drakens, a little flying car thing featured in this video had an F-4 Phantom tail on it.

@aj-2savage896 11 месяцев назад

Also saw F-101 Voodoo stuff. The Hawk 1/32 HH-43 Husky was prominent elsewhere.

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

The next video will feature the secondary aircraft :)

@clivestuarteardley6049 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating documentary with lots of research carried out.

@Alex-cw3rz 10 месяцев назад

The Fireflash is one of my most favourite designs of sci-fi aircraft

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

It's a Ln absolutely beautiful aircraft. Concorde is clearly the inspiration and is one of the most beautiful aircraft ever designed. You can imagine them thinkingnamd discussing - how do we make something that is more sci-fi and even more beautiful? Well, Mission accomplished!!

@danielmuller3508 11 месяцев назад

More Videos of this. Great Informationen thanks

@blackittysamurai 11 месяцев назад

I grew up with Thunderbirds.. fun video, thank you!

@mickeyfilmer5551 11 месяцев назад

As a six year old in 1965 I was captivated by Fireball xl5, Stingray... and then Thunderbirds came along and virtually changed my life from then on, becoming more and more interested in the space race, machines and actually taking my toys apart (especially my prized Thunderbird 5) to see how they worked. This is a fascinating video as I have always been a modelmaker as well so this really peaked my interest. Thanks for sharing it.

@colinmcginn977 10 месяцев назад

Me too. I remember running in from playing in the street when my mum shouted out "Thunderbirds is starting", All the other kids did likewise.

@hoppinonabronzeleg9477 9 месяцев назад

Wow! amazing, it makes perfect sense, why would they NOT use all that good ready made stuff? Amazing how much research tyhere is, wonder if there will be a burst of really accurate T-Birds dioramas at Telford in the next couple of years?

@Throgmoyd 11 месяцев назад

Utterly fascinating - thank you so much!

@toypolloi 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for a fascinating video. So cool to see the amazing use of lots on these models.

@moshly64 11 месяцев назад

I think it is in 'End of the road' there is one scene that has a clock with a surround made from a plastic saucer from a picnic set. (my mum had) They also used XLR connector housings as microphones and all the controls knobs for 'high tech equipment' were just from old stoves & radios.

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

We have the same wooden gazelle that Warren Grafton has in his office... (The Duchess Assignment). He is missing part of his horn though.

@smorris12 11 месяцев назад

To be utterly pedantic, the microphones were DIN connector housings!

@vvogt4252 11 месяцев назад

Excellent! thanks for Showing all the detail.

@AceOThorns 11 месяцев назад

Sooooo much research, a noble effort. Delighted to see it!

@borusa32 11 месяцев назад

wondeerful video-I had the SRN-1 kit back in the day.

@crhkrebs 11 месяцев назад

What a wonderful and comprehensive analysis. Thank you.

@garyl5128 11 месяцев назад

This fell into my recommended at an interesting time - as a kid I built some Star Wars stuff from scratch so it looked like some of the SW ships (Tie and Falcon for example, the Tie used an egg for the bod, lids from ice cream cartons, lengths of spru and pen caps for example. Once sprayed grey looked acceptable), and was thinking I might like to try and build something from scratch again - maybe a ship similar to one of the classic sci-fi books of my youth for example, so seeing this video has made me want to look more into what you've done/discovered etc so I can learn some tips etc. Thanks for these videos :o).

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching. So glad to hear you are inspired to scratch build / kit bash some new models.

@michaelhempseed3795 11 месяцев назад

Another outstanding episode!!!

@andrefiset3569 11 месяцев назад

I noticed a long time ago the microphone the puppets are holding are DIN plugs.

@marcatteberry1361 11 месяцев назад

I love this stuff. I was always amazed at the work they put into these shows. Even as a kid, I could see stuff that went bad, but stuff that looked very real as well!

@FrankJCarver Месяц назад

The detail on that light lense is amazing. 2:29

@Matteline Месяц назад

I never cease to be amazed at the high level of craftsmanship of these shows.

@Atticus3lack 10 месяцев назад

Love these videos. I adore the show and seeing all these kits get used is super interesting. Thank you

@jeniferallan6693 10 месяцев назад

Incredibly creative. And some of those models were huge!

@Matteline 10 месяцев назад

In terms of visual effecst work, a lot of these models are actually a bit smaller than average. The model V1s used for a lot of the shots in 'Operation Crossbow' were about 4 feet long I think. Thunderbird 1 models varied fromabout 15 inches to about 30 for teh largest ones. Of course back them everything was shot in camera, all at once. So all of the models had to be built to the same scale, the vehicles and the landscapes. That automated car park set is just incredible. All the cars are 1/24th so it must have been a huge set. it certainly looks enormous. Thanks for watching.

@jeniferallan6693 10 месяцев назад

@Matteline your research is incredible. As a child, I loved watching Thunderbirds. Now, I appreciate the efforts, skills and incredible imagination of the design team.

@stuartwagstaff6287 10 месяцев назад

Love the juicer and 2 flip up 240v sockets at 0.57

@hafstrat 11 месяцев назад

Fascinating! I spotted a modified Topper Johnny Seven in one episode. It’s painted silver and Gordon operates it. I have a photo somewhere. Also several tracked vehicles use the tank wheels off a big tank toy I had back in the day (1960’s) It had a remote control like a field radio. Had a silver metal barrel which looked odd and fired shells. It was a big but very slow toy! It could go up our stairs. ❤

@Matteline 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching. Check out my video on 'caterpillar tracks'

@percyprune7548 11 месяцев назад

Tiger Joe tank from America, and also recognised the Johnny 7 in the Thunderbirds film "Thunderbirds are Go".

@hafstrat 11 месяцев назад

@@percyprune7548 pity about the lemon squeezer in Thunderbirds ones launch bay. 🫣🥲

@crabby7668 11 месяцев назад

@@percyprune7548 ah, Johnny 7 the toy I always coveted from the adverts and never got. I always considered myself a deprived child from that point onwards😊

@StodaGryph 11 месяцев назад

What a great video! I used to do a bunch of kitbashing as a kid, and always loved these shows. Kitbashing remains a thriving art to this day, even in modern productions.