Ok, I'm going back to the Savoia S.21 again. Don't know why FineMolds made their differently, like Bf109.Īnyway, thanks guys. I redo that too to looks more like the film. Other thing, the guns cowling? port? whatever it call. The film version are lot wider, like race planes blades. The kit's blades are nice, I like the shape. But I have to keep reminding myself I'm building a card model, and small round dome stuff are not all that fun to unfold. The first propeller spinner I built was a lot rounder like the film. So, I dumped the FM's kit and just working with my screen shots reference from the "Art Of" books. I still want to get close as I can with my card model.
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But, even I know I can't build my movie accurate. I keep looking at the movie still shots and back to the 1/48 FineMolds kit. Next I'll be building parts for both early and late engine. But, the final judgment not from me but you guys. I think this one capture the shape little better. Didn't like the first one I build the more I looks at it. Still working on finalizing/trouble shooting my first card model before it goes public.
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In addition, the Disney television series TaleSpin also took inspiration from Hikōtei Jidai.I didn't got to spent much time as I would like to have. Hikōtei Jidai was the basis for Miyazaki's 1993 anime film Porco Rosso. Porco and Chuck have a great air battle for Fio and for Italian pride. Fio, a 17-year-old girl, redesigns and improves his plane. Porco takes his plane to Milan-based Piccolo, SPA, for repairs. Porco is shot down by an American, Donald Chuck. Porco Rosso saves a girl from the air pirates, the Mamma Aiuto gang.
There is, however, one peculiarity about him - he is a pig. He is a very dashing fellow and women love him. Flying his red seaplane, he is the best in the business. Enter an Italian bounty hunter, Porco Rosso. Air pirates with their seaplanes plague the sea, attacking ships, robbing money, and kidnapping women. Mamma Aiuto, who Porco saves in Part One, is also the name of a seaplane pirate gang in the movie. I have no choice but to rely on the imagination of you, good readers." (At the time, the Porco Rosso anime had not yet been announced.)
Still, the basic story line and its charm are carried over into the anime.įor the dogfight between Porco and Donald Chuck (the character was renamed Donald Curtiss in the anime), Miyazaki wrote "If this were animation, I might be able to convey the grandeur of this life-or-death battle. Gina doesn't appear at all, and Porco is much more lighthearted. Other than being a "retired Italian Air Force pilot", Porco's past is not discussed, although the rise of fascism and the sentiment against it are mentioned.
It is a book of about 60 pages, includes the Porco Rosso manga (15 pages total), several airplane vignettes, resin-kit models of aircraft, photos of some real counterparts of the floatplanes which appeared in the film, and some interviews with Miyazaki regarding airplane model kits.Ĭompared with the anime version, the manga is much more light-hearted. Hikōtei Jidai was published in 1992 by Dainippon Kaiga ( ISBN 5-6). It is filled with aircraft from the 1920s (heavily modified by Miyazaki) and their technical details, as well as with the men (good-hearted and silly) who love them. Like other manga in this series, "Hikōtei Jidai" is a manifestation of his love for old planes. It was published in Model Graphix in three parts, a monthly magazine about scale models, as a part of Hayao Miyazaki's " Zassou Note" series. The Age of the Flying Boat) is a fifteen-page, all-watercolor manga by Hayao Miyazaki, on which his animated film Porco Rosso is based.