There were other characters on JAG other than Catherine Bell? Funny, I don’t remember them… [whstl]
These are actual photos of the studio model. This was auctioned off on ebay a couple of years ago for the CASA organization. This is a charity for children whose main goal was to raise awareness against child abuse, and neglect. This is the true scale model of Gil Grissoms’ office made by the prop makers of the show. I altered these pictures myself, as they’re not to be shared for public distribution in their original form.
Morgan Freeman builds a ship in a bottle in Along Came A Spyder. I’ve seen a couple others that haven’t been mentioned but I just can’t think of them at the moment.
Tony
PS…Gibbs(Mark Harmon) builds boats in his basement on NCIS. Does that count?[:D]
In the Blues Brothers, the head Nazi paints figures. An eagle, I think.
There is an episode of Frazier where Niles and his dad are building a large plastic sailing ship model.
The banter between NIles, Martin and Dafney was pretty funny.
Dafney: nice frigate you’re building
Niles: it is a schooner not a frigate
Dafney: oh I thought it was a frigate
Niles: No a frigate is fore and aft rigged
Dafney; No that is a barquentine
Niles: you’re right, then what’s a frigate?
Martin: It’s when you just don’t care anymore (as he walks away from the model disgusted).
‘Its 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas. 1/2 a pack of smokes…Its dark out and we are wearing sunglasses.’ ~ Ellwood
‘Hit it’ ~ Jake
Ha ha that has to be my favorite comedy / musical / action-adventure! Yes the Nazi leader was painting a eagle!
In the movie “Galaxy Quest” the fanboy Brandon is building a model of the NSEA Protector when Tim Allens’s character contacts him for help. Hey, now there is finally a kit of the Protector.
Doug
and although 40 Year Old Virgin has already been mentioned, the scene where he is painting figures and speaking to them is pretty funny…[:)]
Do you mean DAPHNE MOON? I saw that episode too. Sometimes the most ridiculous, but funny stuff happens on that show!
That was Henry Gibson playing the part of the “Illinois Nazi” leader. I was going to mention this, but I didn’t as this wasn’t actually a model, but a statue. I think it was a Maltese Falcon replica. Still, he was working on something similar to a model so, I guess it’ll pass.
Not really, but his father (played by Ralph Waite) , and Ducky (David Mc Callum) were painting the toys that Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) made for the childrens’ toy drive on tonights repeated Christmas episode.
There are a lot of episodes of T.V. shows where someone was buiding something. “The Brady bunch” - Peter was building an airplane, Beaver (Leave it to Beaver) was building a boat with his dad. look at Gilligans’ Island. He, or the Professor were always working on a radio, or a model of a ship or some goofy project. On an episode of “MAS*H”, Hawkeye was building a model of the Eiffel Tower with popcicle sticks, but changed it to a different theme as a tribute to the fighting men, and boys of the Korean war.
Then there was the toothpick “Bridge on the River Kwai” that Higgins built on an episode of Magnum. Of course during one of their fueds Magnum destroyed the model in a fitting fashion…
And the main charecter Jamie in “Empire of The Sun” has a large collection of model planes of the preWWII era before the Japanese invade.
427 Cobra, I thought of this thread while watching NCIS tonite…
Tony
Not the “big screen”, but in the “re-visioned” series of Battlestar Galactica, Adama is sometimes seen working on a sailing ship in his quarters.
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Not cinema, but in an episode of ‘Star Trek: The Next generation’, Geordi LaForge (Lavar Burton) builds a model of the sailing ship ‘Enterprise’.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, perhaps he was building another ship to present as a gift for the Captain of another ship.
I think Geordi was building the HMS Victory for his previous Captain on the Starship Victory.
Well in ‘Bubba-Ho-Tep’ when ‘Elvis’ visits ‘JFK’ in his room at the retirement home in the background you can see several dioramas of the JFK assassination…
And in ‘Close Encounters’ I loved it when the main character kept trying to recreate his vision of the mesa in everything from his mashed potatoes to the model railroad layout to the giant one made out of half of his lawn.
“The Butterfly Effect”- one of the kids has a bunch of planes displayed around the room.
“The Lovely Bones”- Mark-E-Mark does ships in a bottle.