Across The Lake

[Renegadenemo]

It looks incredibly small there. I think a lot of people are going to get a real surprise at the scale of the real thing. She's HUGE by comparison.

[Mike Bull]

To be fair to the production though, they about get away with it- certainly I never spotted the scale difference for years until Bill pointed it out to me, and he'll tell you that I don't often miss things like that!

[Piston Broke]

I just noticed where they have put the turbine end of the jet engine looks like the jet pipe is about 6 inches long

[Renegadenemo]

The water brake and stabilising fin are missing too, if we're looking for details.

[Excelsior2007]

Good spot, Bill.

[ace_chris]

In one of the early shots of the replica K7, either one of the spray gaurds or cockipt canopy is quite badly cracked. Not watched Across The Lake for a while now but it was definititely there! Chris

[Mike Bull]

From memory, it's the canopy- a crack running up from the left rear lower corner. Overall there's a lot 'wrong' with the mock-up, but I guess they did the best they could at the time.

[ace_chris]

They did really well at the time, not least to inspire a whole new generation who saw the film. Thats what did it for me! Chris

[Mike Bull]

Certainly; aside from a very vague memory of my Nan telling me that 'Bluebird was the best' at Beaulieu when I was tiny, it was 'Across The Lake' that got my interest going, followed then of course by the efforts of a certain Geordie bloke in 2001.

[Piston Broke]

Thanks Mike but I didn't do that much