old iron wrote:
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Flight scenes are of course the problem. What are the best full-size alternatives to CGI, radio-controlled models or manned small scale replicas? New build TBDs along the lines of the Russian A6Ms are a nice dream, but that's about it. Big compromises would need to be made, and whatever is created would be picked apart by all of us for their gross inaccuracies. Still, if you were tasked with producing several flying TBD stand-ins at a relatively reasonable cost, what would you do?
I think all this is a pipe-dream: there would be no full-size alternatives. Air scenes would of course be CGI, much as done for the most recent King Kong movie
(and to my knowledge no large-scale models were built for these). Ground scenes would be blue-screened with the aircraft in the background being CGI.
They would pretty much have to do it this way, because as already said above, any aircraft built up from trainers or Avengers would be "picked apart by all of us." Doing CGI from scratch would be quicker, cheaper and produce images that were more accurate. They could have the actors walk around, get into and onto these and still do it all with CGI images.
Full size, accurate reproductions of the aircraft were made for the recent King Kong movie. Details here:
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthr ... g-AircraftThis is also documented in the "extras" of the DVD/Blu-ray.
Part of the problem with building a Devastator is that no blueprints or engineering drawings are known to exist for the TBD, in addition to the fact that no above ground TBD's exist from which moulds could be made. Could something be made from pictures/movies that looks like a TBD? Sure! Could something be made that was a highly accurate, exact replica that was capable of flight? Absolutely not!
Unless or until one of the below ocean examples are brought to the surface, none of us will ever see a TBD in real life. I think the best chance we have is of raising one of the Lexington's TBD's that were discovered by Paul Allen's team a few months ago.