[identity profile] antonia-tiger.livejournal.com 2008-07-28 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It's even possible to buy your own Lancaster (CGI only)

This is likely good enough for the background in a movie (http://www.vanishingpoint.biz/productdetail.asp?productID=1488)

You can get a Spitfire for free (http://www.colacola.se/expo_303.htm).



[identity profile] fleetfootmike.livejournal.com 2008-07-28 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That'll please Peter Jackson, then.

Though I suspect Weta are modelling his.

[identity profile] antonia-tiger.livejournal.com 2008-07-28 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
The outfit selling that Lancaster model have picked up the distribution rights to a pretty big collection of CGI models, and quite a few look to be very similar to commercial plastic kits. You can see it in some parts being a bit out of proportion, such as the thickness of the framing of a cockpit canopy or gun turret, and a lot of the buildings are straight out of model railway catalogues.

I don't think the Lancaster is one of those models.

But (going by YouTube videos) any film-maker has to compete with computer games these days.