SpyTHINK 044: Potential HOT WHEELS / MATCHBOX 007 Diorama Mixes...

1. VTOAK

Fire Ladder Truck could be painted RED to mimic the one in "A View To a Kill" (VTOAK) but would need a good SF backdrop and a relevant police car chasing it...getting a 1:72 scale Army figure to look like Moore's 007 hanging from the ladder would be a challenge...but WHO would know this Bond moment scene?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090264/trivia

The Remy-Julienne stunt team from France did many of the stunts in this movie, but in the San Francisco segment, a scene in which Sir Roger Moore was supposed to be driving a fire truck, the stunt driver was too short to reach the pedals and properly operate the truck. There wasn't much time to "rig" the truck, so Moore volunteered to drive it, quite expertly as noted by the local San Francisco Teamsters. Moore claims he was a lorry driver, among other things, before his acting paid the bills.

Vehicles featured include: two Zorin airship blimps, one with green and white, and the other with green, red, and white markings, the larger being a SkyShip 6000, and the smaller is marked G-BIHN, and was inflatable from a Portakabin; a 1962 silver Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II, chauffeured by Tippett, but owned by the producer; a 1984 blue Renault 11 TXE French taxi; a Peugeot 604 limousine; a 1977 Cadillac Fleetwood 75 limousine (used by Zorin's thugs), a 1985 Ford LTD U.S. sedan; a truck carrying explosives; a red American LaFrance Tiller Fire Engine Truck, belonging to the San Francisco Fire Department; a MBB Bo-105 helicopter; Stacy's Jeep Cherokee XJ; Pola's 1984 Chevrolet Corvette C4 hire-car; Polaris Indy 600 snowmobiles; an Aerospatiale SA 341/342 Gazelle helicopter; an Iceberg mini-submarine, and various makes and models for the San Francisco Police Department squad and patrol cars, such as late 1970s Dodge Monacos, Dodge Diplomats, a Plymouth Volaré, and vehicles typical of Mopar Squads, one of two James Bond movies ever to feature them.

2. SF, SPECTRE, NTTD 

Generic black luxury SUV could be a bad guy SPECTRE or good guy MI6-SIS vehicle from the awful "SkyFall", great "SPECTRE" and upcoming "No Time to Die" (NTTD)... 

3. DaD

This hovercraft painted military green--though without Brosnan figure--could be a center focus of a rural terrain and backdrop diorama though smallish...

4. Doesn't 007 Exist Yet 1 

This flying wing from a MARVEL movie franchise is very Bondian if painted ALL-BLACK. 

5. Doesn't 007 Exist Yet 2

Swimming car...looks cool but not yet in a Bond movie...

Doesn't float IRL (I tried to make it float).

6.  SPECTRE A

Could be easily re-painted to be the old guy's Fiat Craig's 007 DB10 pushes in Rome, Italy in SPECTRE. Would need excellent Rome backdrop. 

7. License to Kill (LTK)

Problem is finding a MOSTLY WHITE 1:72 scalish USCG HH-65 Dauphin to be positioned over it as drugthug Sanchez's cream colored, Willy's jeep. Again, no figures to go inside the jeep in a sitting position but a standing Army figure could be painted running away. 

ALL-ORANGE USCG HH-65 models exist in the right scale--but don't look like the mostly WHITE paint job seen in LTK. Ugggh.

https://www.flyingmule.com/products/AM-ACHY22

Painting things with blotchy gloss white paint is problematical...and afterwards...no USCG markings unless you carefully paint all around them...

Ugggh 2. 

If you can get the HH-65 looking right...a Cessna 172 to match for an aerial diorama is a possibility...

8. Doesn't 007 Exist Yet 3

Looks so cool as a Le Mans super car. Shrug.

9. SPECTRE B

Very Bondesque would have to be with other super cars in a SPECTRE Roman parking lot.

10. CR, QoS

The Jaguar looks awfully like their rival Aston-Martin's DBS...just saying...

11. NTTD

I HATE THE DRUG PAINT JOB! Painted to match the color of Craig's open-top LR, it could suffice. Or painted TAN or GREEN could be a German Army kubelwagon...

12. QoS

The MATCHBOX Hydro Cruiser could be painted with some black to look like milthug General Medrano's Small, Fast Boat (SFB) that was to convey him/entourage & Camille to his large yacht in a water simulation diorama.  

Smaller Zodiac F470 inflatable SFBs could be ripped off the roof of the MATCHBOX Jeep Cherokee SUV--but without figures inside. The wooden SFB Craig's 007 & Camille are in doesn't exist commercially and would need to be built from scratch. 

We did find a HOT WHEELS-sized die-cast Jeep towing a F470 on a trailer...

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Semper

https://www.combatreform.org/2LTMichaelSparksUSMCR.htm

Airborne!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkRaE3UEags

http://www.combatreform.org/LieutenantMichaelSparksUSAR.htm

Commander Ian Fleming RNVR 1939-51 wrote the James Bond 007 books/movies for the Information Research Division of MI6-SIS who he worked for as a Master Spy under journalistic cover from 1933-39 and 1945-1964 when he was murdered (as concluded by legendary investigative reporter, Jim Marrs to me) to prevent him publicly condemning the Warren Commission white wash of the CIA's group ambush murder of his friend, President John F. Kennedy.  

James Bond is REAL.