Ghibli: The Wind Rises (Jiro's Bird Plane)
Had some left overs... hmmm... those sails give me an idea...
Another Academy Spad XIII fuselage to start from.
First thing to do? Move the cockpit back and start filling in holes.
Holes filed, the general shape is sanded, and the cockpit sidewall get some paint. That Mig-21 nose cone came in handy...
Cockpit interior is pieced together. Hope it all fits!
Cockpit stuffed in and putty applied to the shape.
That's a lot of putty, but after all that sanding, I'm hoping it will help with the structural integrity. 😉
Added the wings and the tail.
Lots more sanding, but got the cowling more or less in place and added struts for the wheels.
The cowling isn't quite centred, but this plane is so organic, I'm calling artistic license.
All the parts have been crafted.
After a lot of putty and sanding, she's ready for some paint.
Masked and painted
I think it was the right choice on blue
Comments
16 12 August 2017, 16:54
Greg BakerI 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
Greg BakerGot 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
Greg BakerLooks like this is the only "Mystery" left in my Ghibli project group... all the others have been correctly identified.
16 August 2017, 00:50
Greg BakerJust 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
Greg BakerYou think Choppa Nutta will notice the engine cowling is slightly askew? Better not mention it..😉
20 August 2017, 15:20
Choppa Nutta😢 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
Greg BakerHeh. 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
Greg BakerOk... I know have all the parts I need. Next up is priming and painting.
27 August 2017, 16:40
Greg BakerAfter 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
Greg BakerOk... 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
Lochsa Riverlet's see...wings that are actually sails.....with feathers...that's normal....carry on.....
3 October 2022, 05:13
Jay DubyaExtraordinary and immediately recognisable Greg. Let me guess, less than CAD5 in total materials costs?
3 October 2022, 06:58
bughunterHow could I miss this? I guess due to holiday ...
Very creative recycling? No, this is upcycling 👍
3 October 2022, 11:42
Greg BakerThanks 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).
