For Trade:
Solid early war rim for a combat rim and a small amount of cash or a 1978
jeep (4WD station wagon lookin thing) carb.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: chance wolf <timberwolf@wheeldog.net>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Date: Saturday, December 16, 2000 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Hollywood!
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "James Wiehe" <j.wiehe@sympatico.ca>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:56 AM
>Subject: Re: [MV] Hollywood!
>
>
>> I thought that Toronto was " Hollywood North" ?? [;-)
>> Jim Wiehe , VA3JHW
>
>From what I gather, 'Hollywood North" was used as a euphemism for Vancouver
>because it was in the same timezone as Los Angeles. The press has since
>played it up to mean all things to everyone, and depending on the rag, the
>term seems to be equally applicable to both Vancouver and Toronto, and
>sometimes the entirety of Canada's motion-picture industry.
>
>Obligatory mil-veh content.
>
>We did two days on location in North Vancouver, B.C. with the UPN series
>"Freedom" at a location doubling for some super-secret military facility.
>This one was peculiarly signed as something like "Columbia Military Base"
>(don't ask - never seen a sign like that on any U.S. bases, but hey, it's
>make-believe), and we had three Humvees, one Land Rover 110, one Land Rover
>110 FFR, one M109A3, one M151A2, one M35A2 and one M35A2C w/w.
>
>We did a couple of cool things with them. I had to strip the rear doors
off
>of the M109A3 and fill it up with a few ammo boxes stacked in such a way as
>to hide cast members inside the rear of the vehicle. A stunt was setup
>whereby three stuntmen jumped from a cliff and landed atop the 109A3 before
>the stuntwoman grabbed the rear sill above the no-longer-present doors and
>somersaulted herself inside. Looked great.
>
>The second stunt was done at this faux-military compound, and consisted of
>the Humvee crashing through a chain-link fence (driven by stunts, of
>course - who
>found out exactly how wide a Humvee was by tagging the complex sign with
the
>mirror as he went by!) as it was being 'shot' by a number of guys with
>automatic weapons. In case you've always wondered how that was done, they
>either 'squib' the vehicle with small explosive charges and set them off in
>a daisy-chain to coincide more-or-less with the automatic weapons fire
>(makes a mess of most paintwork), or they use something called a "Zerk
gun".
>This second option utilizes a paintball-type gun that fires little darts
>which, on impact, make a nifty, bright, highly-visible spark, but do not
>normally travel at a velocity high enough to inflict damage to painted
>surfaces.
>
>So, we set the shot up, and the gate guards let loose with their automatic
>weapons as the SFX guy fired the "Zerk gun" at the approaching Humvee, and
>the sparks went a-flying everywhere. One problem. The unique shape of the
>Humvee's hood and the fact that it's fibreglas and not metal meant that the
>Zerk rounds bounced off of the hood unpredictably and went sailing into the
>glass right in front of the stunt driver who was none-too-impressed to see
>two fairly-realistic looking bullet wounds suddenly appear. Can't say I
was
>very happy either! Couldn't pause to change the glass, so we went ahead
>anyway to finish the scene.
>
>We did another fun bit with the main cast of 'Freedom' which involved
>driving a 4-dr-soft top Humvee down a highway in North Vancouver (blocked
>off selectively by the local detachment of the RCMP) with the camera
rolling
>inside looking through the windshield and at the driver and passenger on
>successive takes. We had something like nine people in this thing from the
>1st Assistant Director through to me, sound, camera, and cast - and got
each
>shot in one take. I drove for the second shot, which involved the camera
>looking away from the driver at the wounded front-seat passenger, and we
got
>that one in a single take too. Should air sometime in January or early
>Feb., I think.
>
>One note if anyone should ask you whether or not they can use the Zerk to
>'shoot up' your HMV. Have SFX test-fire at a range closer than that you'd
>experience for the actual shot, and test on some part of the vehicle that
>won't be too much of a hassle to touch up should things go south. Most
>military vehicles of any age should have no problems whatsoever with the
>average paint-finish, but certain newer cars made of the metallic
equivalent
>of cigarette foil tend to 'mark' quite readily. Not mentioning any names,
>of course.
>
>Andy Hill
>MVPA 9211
>Vancouver, B.C.
>(though if I did, that name would be 'Chrysler'. Definitely 'Chrysler'.)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>===Mil-Veh is a member-supported mailing list===
>To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: <mil-veh-off@mil-veh.org>
>To switch to the DIGEST mode, send e-mail to <mil-veh-digest@mil-veh.org>
>To reach a human, contact <ack@mil-veh.org>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jan 02 2001 - 23:13:24 PST