From: chance wolf (chance_wolf@shaw.ca)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2005 - 17:57:33 PST
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From: "m35products" <m35prod@optonline.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] MV's In The Movies
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> " Actually they made extensive use of miniatures and CG effects so no
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> MV's were destroyed."
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> Thankfully, the SPCMV was on the set to ensure that.
"No actual military vehicles were harmed during the making of this film.
Scenes in which military vehicles appear to have been harmed were simulated
under supervision of the SPCMV."
We have one M35 at work which has been blown up and rammed on something like
five different productions - and even twice on one production. It looks
decent on camera when in actuality it's just a wheeled hulk with its doors
and hood bungee-corded in place over top of SFX mortars designed to blow
both off on command when someone fires a rocket or lobs an improbably
powerful grenade or "fires a machine-gun burst which ignites the fuel
tank..." (*diesel* fuel tank...<cough>).
The last time it was up at bat it was rigged to explode when rammed by an
ex-CDN Army Chev "Five-Quad" (specially-built 1976 Chevrolet 4x4 pickup, gas
350, Turbo 350, 205? Transfer) which wound up hit so *hard* by the pickup
that the frame bent. It's still sitting in storage awaiting resurrection
for the next film courtesy of another set of woofy Dr. MO doors, a
bondobucket hood, and a spanking-new Rapco Rattlecan CARC job - and in doing
so is helping to ensure decent vehicles aren't sacrificed needlessly.
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