Seven of these miniature scud missile launchers were built over three months. Designed to fly apart in scale. One was packed with explosive and blown up as a test in a quarry. The others were safely exploded three at a time in the studio set. Human Dynamo Workshop also supplied the fortress set. View our Reels for footage. This was a fantastic job from Columbia Films, a Rob Cohen directed movie. We built six hero Russian scud missile launchers and one test model. The scale was 1/5.6 scale making them 2.3 m long. The fortress courtyard to blow them up in was 13 x 8 m. This was a very successful project and Bennett Walsh the producer has offered to personally recommend Human Dynamo if required.
The original brief was to spend 2 days shooting the explosions, but on seeing the quality of the models, 2 extra days were allocated for beauty shots to be cut into an extra sequence in the movie. Human Dynamo produced and filmed the job providing final footage to Columbia.
