Ghibli: The Wind Rises (Jiro's Bird Plane)
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16 12 August 2017, 16:54
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I was looking at the leftover sails from the Cuty Sark kit I used for Fujimoto's submarine in Ponyo and I got another idea... can you guess where this one is going? 🙂
12 August 2017, 23:16
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Got most of the cockpit interior painted. Just a few more details and then I can get to work finishing the shape,
14 August 2017, 15:48
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Looks like this is the only "Mystery" left in my Ghibli project group... all the others have been correctly identified.
16 August 2017, 00:50
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Just one small update today. Spent a lot of time cutting the feathers and glueing them like a san which betweeen two sails and then putty/sanding it all together. Now it looks like a thing though.
17 August 2017, 15:30
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You think Choppa Nutta will notice the engine cowling is slightly askew? Better not mention it..😉
20 August 2017, 15:20
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😢 haha, too late you already did 😄
Looks fine to me though 🙂
Anyhow, you know I love your work though Greg, right ? 😄 😄 🙂
20 August 2017, 15:47
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Heh. I'm just impressed by your mental telepathy and ability to discover the part of a project I'm not happy with... sometimes before even I Know! 😄
20 August 2017, 15:52
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Ok... I know have all the parts I need. Next up is priming and painting.
27 August 2017, 16:40
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After a lot of sanding touche ups, it was finally done, primed and ready to pain.... and that's when I cracked the leg nearly off... le sigh
31 August 2017, 16:22
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Ok... I screwed up the masking around the cockpit a bit, but my attempts to fix it started making it worse... so I'm moving this project into the "done" column before it rolls right down hill.
17 September 2017, 08:46
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let's see...wings that are actually sails.....with feathers...that's normal....carry on.....
3 October 2022, 05:13
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Extraordinary and immediately recognisable Greg. Let me guess, less than CAD5 in total materials costs?
3 October 2022, 06:58
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How could I miss this? I guess due to holiday ...
Very creative recycling? No, this is upcycling 👍
3 October 2022, 11:42
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Thanks guys! There is a kit in 1/48 of this plane (check out this great build of it - Jiro Bird-Wing Aircraft | Album by Hikaru (1:48)) but I wanted one in 1/72 scale. So I cobbled most of it together using leftovers from an Academy Cutty Sark and a Spad XIII - so yeah... about $5 in costs. 😉
My only regret is that the Spad fuselage is a bit too big. Maybe if I had a 1/100 scale kit... oh, well. Such a fun little bird though. 🙂
3 October 2022, 14:05
Album info
A scraftbuilt version of the imaginary "bird plane" that Jiro flies in Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises. Cobbled together using an 1/72 Spad XIII fuselage, sails from a 1/350 Cutty Sark and the nose-cone of a 1/72 MiG-21 (all from Academy).