A Fokker D.XXI in the movies; Texan/Harvard conversion

[Luka]

Hello Britmodellers, 
The Harvard/Texan has often been used to simulate other aircraft in the movies, so here's my rendition of a "Fokker D.XXI" as portrayed in the 1977 Dutch war movie "Soldaat van Oranje". 
Note the size difference between the converted HobbyBoss T-6G and a PM D.XXI.










Thanks for watching!
Luka

[bennyboi]

very nice!

[Luka]

Thank you!🙏

[georgeusa]

Very nice conversion of the Texan (for obvious reasons, I have problems referring to it as a "Harvard").  I do like the comparison you provided of the real plane versus the movie version.  It is sorta close, but really no comparison.  Thanks for sharing this build.

[CH-53D]

Lovely models, both of them, well done!

 

I believe those real Texan/Harvard conversions were used, wearing British colours, in the movie 'A Bridge Too Far'.

[Luka]

2 hours ago, georgeusa said:

Very nice conversion of the Texan (for obvious reasons, I have problems referring to it as a "Harvard").  I do like the comparison you provided of the real plane versus the movie version.  It is sorta close, but really no comparison.  Thanks for sharing this build.

Thank you!
Before the airworthy Fokker D.XXI rebuild from Hoogeveen (2022, NL) was completed we had to make do with T-6 'stand-ins'. Still, those planes were very impressive to teenage me.

 

 

2 hours ago, CH-53D said:

Lovely models, both of them, well done!

 

I believe those real Texan/Harvard conversions were used, wearing British colours, in the movie 'A Bridge Too Far'.

Thanks!
Some of those were indeed seen in that movie during the tank ambush on the narrow road in the South of North Brabant. In fact, they wore some other coats as well; in Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) they posed as a US P-47 and also as 'generic' German fighter planes (even though the T-6 doesn't look anything like a Bf109E).