FURY

[124cav]

A missing scene.

 

The field jacket on the GI popped up in the auction too.

[63 RECON]

nice Fury props, good still as well.

 

I wonder how long that scene went for?

 

There are deleted scenes on the Blu Ray version yeah?

[Mr.Jerry]

Just got my stuff, nice big box full.

sorry I didn't win any of the US bits.

But it looks good in the case with my SPR and BoB and Pacific stuff!

[willysmb44]

The weapons, were they resin, rubber or metal? Just curious as they look great in that photo!

[Mr.Jerry]

They were a hard rubbery kind of resin. The Panzerfaust is metal. The bayo stud is metal.

They look really good, but are all surprisingly lightweight.

Sadly to meet federal import regs they have the orange barrel plugs inserted..working on that...

[RobL]

Hi Mr Jerry. I too got some of the prop weapons and when I picked them up from the prop store, I was shown how easily the orange plugs can be removed. They can be twisted out with a pair of pliers. They are held in place with a nail/brad about an inch long and some black adhesive/caulking. On the weapons I received, I was able to remove all the plugs without damaging any of the muzzles. The guns have about a quarter inch deep barrel that wasn't marred by the orange plug.

When I return from vacation next week, I hope to share scores of photos from the shoot and of the items I've collected and saved from the film.

I also saw an earlier question from Lee about the repro 76mm shells. Yes, I did make them - some

of them - but there were two other departments creating shells for the show as well: the special effects guys and the Armorers. They made really brilliant copies. There are shells made from brass, aluminum, and resin. More on that later. Thx. Happy New Year! Rob.

[kammo-man]

Mr Jerry,

I only made 5 of those uniforms.

The guy you have wore an NCO crusher not the m-43.

FYI.

Smiley face !!!

owen

[Garandomatic]

Googled Steven Zaloga tonight while tanks were on my mind for my little Stuart project, and found a pretty interesting interview he gave recently. In it, he talks all things tank, and gives some very positive reviews to much of Fury.

 

http://tankandafvnews.com/2015/01/27/zaloga_interview/

[willysmb44]

When I return from vacation next week, I hope to share scores of photos from the shoot and of the items I've collected and saved from the film.

I also saw an earlier question from Lee about the repro 76mm shells. Yes, I did make them - some

of them - but there were two other departments creating shells for the show as well: the special effects guys and the Armorers. They made really brilliant copies. There are shells made from brass, aluminum, and resin. More on that later.

 

Thanks for the response, Rob. I thought you'd written about that either here or on the G503 board (can't recall exactly where, now).

I'm looking forward to seeing more from the set!

FYI, Rob, a non-military-collector pal of mine recently saw the movie and was asking about all the 'detail stuff' and wondering if it looked right. I assured him that this was clearly the most accurate WW2 movie made in the postwar era for the 'stuff' shown in it. He even mentioned the crates in the film. I couldn't resist taking him out to my garage to show him the repro crates I've gotten from you in the past and said, "Yep, same guy made those, too!"

[RobL]

Some of the weapons from the auction

Made from very sturdy, lightweight, high-density urethane foam resin - with a few metal parts. The sight hood on the K98 is metal. Barrels - in some cases - are metal tubes/rods. Sling swivels are metal. Wire stock on M3 grease gun is metal. (Does not extend)

The detail that the casting picks up is impressive. Waffenamt, serial numbers, wood chips, etc. The painting of the wood grain on the stocks is in itself a work of art.

Hundreds of the cardboard ammo boxes were made - most destroyed in the mud of the battlefields.

[RobL]

[RobL]

76mm shells and projectiles

 

Shell/projectile combinations came in three styles:

one piece resin

one piece aluminum

two piece brass and resin

 

There were also brass casings without projectiles used to fill racks, and to litter the turret basket and battlefield.

 

 

The two piece style was the type loaded into the main gun when it was supposed to fire, recoil, and eject a 'spent' casing. The special effects wizards created a gun in which a ram inside the barrel would push the (slightly reduced diameter) projectile back down into the shell to make it disappear a split second before the breech would open and eject the casing. A small puff of smoke was simultaneously blown down and out the breech to enhance the effect of a fired shell.

 

The lot numbers on the base of the shells were a combo of my family birthdays and anniversaries.

[RobL]

Only a handful of machined aluminum shells were made. Resin shells were nearly as durable and less expensive.

unpainted resin shell

one piece aluminum shell and projo

[RobL]

a well used resin APC shell

[RobL]

prepping brass shells for shipment to the UK

[RobL]

various two-piece special effects shells at the ready on set. A nice mix of HVAP, Willy Pete, and HE rounds.

shell casings stained with blood ready for the nastiness unfolding inside the turret in the final sequence

[vintageproductions]

Hey, you're scratching the jeep hood.....

[RobL]

Sherman hatch

The hatches were fiberglass and resin - some steel, and plenty of bondo. They to be rugged, and made to accept original periscopes.

hatches in the works

[RobL]

Made about two dozen of these wire bound crates.

Three of these crates were rigged as 'hero' crates that could be opened on camera - so each contained four original metal M1 ammo boxes (or cans) - and each of those cans was loaded with a full belt of 250 .30 cal rounds and a data card.

We had loaded them on web belts. But once in England, the director made an important decision to replace the web belts with metal links. It made life for the continuity people and the armorers much easier. If they had been firing ammo from web belts, whenever they needed to shoot another take of the same action, they would have had to reset the length of the empty side of belt to the exact same length they started the shot with. Tedious - to say the least. With links, however, you never have to worry about that.

 

There were also scores of rigid foam copies of the cans. These cans are lightweight and less expensive than refurbished original cans. Most (perhaps all) of the foam copies came from the movie Monuments Men. That film had wrapped in Europe prior to Fury beginning production, and so many of the props from that film were bought for re-use on Fury.

 

The foam copies were painted, but they had not been stamped with the nomenclature. I was asked to stamp them to match the real metal cans (the lot number contains the registration number of my 42 GPW)

[RobL]

In case any prop ammo loaded in a weapon might be featured in a closeup shot, the primers needed to appear unfired. The casings were original war dated casings, and the bullets were real .30 cal projectiles. Loading the casings with live, unfired primers would have been the easy way to go if we were making a static display. But these prop rounds would likely be chambered and struck with a firing pin - so for the sake of safety, no real primers could be used in these rounds. We replicated the look of unfired primers with plastic disks.

 

 

[RobL]

50 cal wirebound crates and cans

The 50 cal rounds were also fitted with dummy primers in WWII headstamped ammo.

 

[RobL]

50 cal belt on set in England

One of my crew, Hugh Daly, dipping the tips of dummy 50 cal rounds into a solution and placing them in a drying rack to turn the plain ball rounds into tracer rounds. I think we made about three thousand dummy AP and tracer rounds.

 

 

[RobL]

'Rubber guns' ready for war.

 

 

 

 

[RobL]

I was asked to build a couple detailed panzerfaust crates when the production shot a few additional scenes here in Los Angeles.

These were the two crates offered in the prop auction.

 

 

 

 

 

[RobL]