I've not seen Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines since I was a kid. I watched a trailer for it on YT last night, and the special effects don't seem quite so special.
I remember a similar phenomenon when I watched the film 'Mosquito Squadron' the second time. At one point a Mosquito crashes, and it is quite clearly a small scale model projecting a shadow on some poorly painted scenery. The 'squadron' itself is made up using crude film doubling techniques, though they did scrape together a good collection of then-flyable Mosquitos for the film. I don't remember much else about the film, other than that it all took place around a prison castle in Germany...
As a young 'un I found all the killing a bit overwhelming.
My 'Rok Sak' arrived yesterday, alongside a cheap Badass II clone. The bridge is safely on the Tokai, and I also installed three Tele-style barrel knobs. My chroming is now complete for the time being, until I pluck up the stones to re-skin some pickups and re-route accordingly.
Tomorrow I go modding project hunting. My plan is to still make a bass that sounds like a Rickenbacker, out of some neglected mutt. I'm trawling the pawnbrokers for Staggs, Washburn Lyons, Squier Broncos etc. I'm looking for a bass where, with some judicious routing and a new pickguard, I can drop pickups into the 24th and 36th fret positions, stick a bass-cut cap on the bridge pickup and get a Rick-like tone. Something along the lines of a Stingray would work, as I've seen Dave Meros rocking out on a modded OLP.
