Yet another echo from the movie Toro, Toro, Toro.
The hulls for that model in the article came from that movie. I remember when the original models were sold off in the early 1970s, it was in the model magazines, they were in rough shape.
much like the AT-6 Zeros, which have to have been in every pacific WWII movie that needed a zero from 1971 to the present day. I think the 1976 Midway flop used a lot of excess footage from Toro, Toro, Toro.
Revell made two plastic kit versions of the Arizona, the one that was around 9 inches long and the other longer one (18 to 20 inches). Built the first one as well as the Prinz Eugen many times and sunk them many times as well (using an air rifle from the bathroom window of our house down into a large deep puddle that formed in out back lot). No virtual reality was as good as a 10~12 year old boys imagination at seeing the spouts of water from near misses. Then I would repair them and go back an sink them again, until they were scrap.
Built the large revel model at age 12 and never destroyed it. Got thrown out many years later by my father when I was off at school or had moved out, along with a number of well done Type 7 U-boat models. Back in the 1970s all of us kid built models and model shops were a place of wonder for pre-pubescent boys. So much nostalgia.
Wow thanks for sharing that, I was building models in the sixties, by the seventies I was aiming for active duty. I get what your saying though.
Bullfighting movie? No a Jewish movie: Tora Tora Tora.
Midway from 1976 wasn’t anything like a flop. It was 9th in the box office that year, it did well internationally too, and made 43 million here. It did well because of the Bicentennial celebration.
“Yet another echo from the movie Toro, Toro, Toro.”
Wasn’t that the movie where a bunch of Japanese gardners did a surprise attack and mowed all the lawns in Honolulu?
It’s ‘’Tora’’.