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Soviet/US. movie, 'A Captive in the Land', featuring an Ilyushin Il.76 'Candid' in FICTIONAL RAF. markings
Does anyone out there still have an old VHS. copy of the film to get a few screen grabs ?
 

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I think it's even worse than yours
 

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AH-88J2kai "Gray Ghost" stealth attack helicopter from THE NEXT GENERATION PATLAVOR -TOKYO WAR- movie
 

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The Nightmare Man (1981 UK TV series)

Now firstly, an apology as it is not an aircraft as such, but way back then when i first saw this series i honestly thought it was a Soviet experimental aircraft that was washed ashore but just today i found out it was a Soviet experimental submarine called Vodyanoi which refers in mythology to a Slavic water spirit (which reinforces the Submarine idea). Its pilot (the Nightmare Man of the title) terrified me as a child.
 

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I thought it would be fun to show a size comparison of various main vehicles from UFO. As with the previous artwork posted on this thread, I only updated the artwork and created this chart. The dimensions were calculated from that of the actual filming miniatures and the scale they were built. Any questions were verified by screenshots, and trusted material.
 

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I thought it would be fun to show a size comparison of various main vehicles from UFO. As with the previous artwork posted on this thread, I only updated the artwork and created this chart. The dimensions were calculated from that of the actual filming miniatures and the scale they were built. Any questions were verified by screenshots, and trusted material.
I never realized (well, as a somewhat distracted teenager at the time...) that the UFOs scaled out to different sizes!
 
Neither did I, until rewatching the series. The defunct Eagle Transporter Forum had a thread that discussed the UFOs. We came to an agreement that the size of the crew dictated the size of the craft, from what was seen in the series.
 
I thought it would be fun to show a size comparison of various main vehicles from UFO. As with the previous artwork posted on this thread, I only updated the artwork and created this chart. The dimensions were calculated from that of the actual filming miniatures and the scale they were built. Any questions were verified by screenshots, and trusted material.
Some scale drawings here
 

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Any plans to publish a book on the vehicles from the various Gerry Anderson series?
That has been discussed by fans for decades. Many of the blueprints were destroyed after filming or in private hands. The next best thing was the photographs taken of the vehicles (front, side, bottom, etc) prior to filming. This book is highly prized by collectors as it has the majority of them in one volume. Photos of the models taken during production and how they look today utilizing the actual negatives/ transparencies. Many of the blueprints you see today are fan-made with various degrees of accuracy.
 

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That has been discussed by fans for decades. Many of the blueprints were destroyed after filming or in private hands. The next best thing was the photographs taken of the vehicles (front, side, bottom, etc) prior to filming. This book is highly prized by collectors as it has the majority of them in one volume. Photos of the models taken during production and how they look today utilizing the actual negatives/ transparencies. Many of the blueprints you see today are fan-made with various degrees of accuracy.
For me it would not be a problem to draw the models to scale, I was a 1/72 scratch modeler for twenty years and I know the angles. The problem for any initiative is always copyright. For nearly three decades, Moulinsart's lawyers have prevented the publication of dozens of works on Tintin, including one of my books.
 
I guess any aircraft that appeared in a Gerry Anderson series could be on this thread. I decided to show one of the more obscure aircraft from the TV series UFO. That is Ventura Aircraft Corporation’s XV-104 experimental jet as seen in the episode “Exposed.” Not much is seen of the craft, in fact the desk model that appears in a later scene gives more detail. However, some fans have said, if the XV-104 is a jet, where is the air intake? Because the large size model is partly in shadow, a little Photoshop fixed that. The air intake is above the cockpit as seen from this top view (see yellow arrow). There is hardly any art that shows the jet in a clear view. After a lot of research, here it is, at least in profile.
 

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Underwing inlets would also be a possibility, since the slot above/behind the cockpit seems awfully small. But then again, the whole design seems oddly misproportioned. I still remember watching the episode as an impressionable kid though...
 
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I suspect it was a “throwaway” design for the episode. The aircraft had recon cameras which I theorize was in the nose. As a kid, the front of the XV-104 and its large tail caught my eye.
Compared to other Anderson shows, there wasn’t much technical stuff released on UFO. Things were mentioned, but not explained or shown. I tried to correct that on the Eagle Transporter Forum.
 
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