Ghibli: The Wind Rises (Jiro's Bird Plane)

Greg Baker Szerző
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? 🙂

Choppa Nutta
Porco Rosso 😄

Greg Baker Szerző
Nope. Guess again!

Greg Baker Szerző
Got most of the cockpit interior painted. Just a few more details and then I can get to work finishing the shape,

Greg Baker Szerző
Looks like this is the only "Mystery" left in my Ghibli project group... all the others have been correctly identified.

trl
I'll try- bird-plane from "The Wind Rises" maybe?

Greg Baker Szerző
You've got it! Nice work trl. You've been bustin' the mysteries!

Greg Baker Szerző
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.

Choppa Nutta
should post up a pic of the "real" thing haha 😄

Greg Baker Szerző
You think Choppa Nutta will notice the engine cowling is slightly askew? Better not mention it..😉

Choppa Nutta
😢 haha, too late you already did 😄
Looks fine to me though 🙂
Anyhow, you know I love your work though Greg, right ? 😄 😄 🙂

Greg Baker Szerző
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! 😄

Choppa Nutta
haha, a most amusing way of framing it 😄

Greg Baker Szerző
Ok... I know have all the parts I need. Next up is priming and painting.

Choppa Nutta
shaping up nicely 🙂

Greg Baker Szerző
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

Greg Baker Szerző
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.

Lochsa River
let's see...wings that are actually sails.....with feathers...that's normal....carry on.....

Jay Dubya
Extraordinary and immediately recognisable Greg. Let me guess, less than CAD5 in total materials costs?

Spanjaard
Very nice looking bird

bughunter
How could I miss this? I guess due to holiday ...
Very creative recycling? No, this is upcycling 👍

Torsten
A beautiful work 😎

Greg Baker Szerző
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. 🙂

Riho Sakrits
Cool project!

Alec K
Very cool project Greg, and no easy conversion 👍

Villiers de Vos
Very creative. As always.