I whipped up the engine, most of the fuselage and a prototype of the wings in rather short time, and then the project halted. It get a major overhaul at Piccolo's in Milano. My MOC represents the plane as it is at the beginning of the movie. Savoia S-21 has water-cooled 12V 12 600 hp Isotta-Fraschini Asso engine, its maximum speed is 330 km/h and it is armed with two 7.92 mm Spandau machine guns. Donald Curtis, Porco's rival, flies modified Curtiss R3C-2 in the film. The design of Porco's seaplane, despite looking a bit odd, isn't that far from the reality Miyazaki based it on Macchi M.33, which lost to American Curtiss R3C-2 in 1925 Schneider Trophy race, as referred by Porco at Hotel Adriano's club. The plane model is not real, but Savoia is actual Italian plane manufacturer. It is Savoia S-21, though the name doesn't appear in the film.
Accurate pig minifigs do not exist.Ī word or two must be said of Porco's plane here. This one was built in Miniland scale because the engine worked the best on it and it made it possible to build an accurate fig of Porco to the cockpit. Those were somewhere between minifig and miniland scale. The second version was built in 2009 and the photos can be found in the Brickshelf folder if old good 'shelf isn't down.
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The first version was built immendiately after seeing the movie and there is no photos taken. I've built Porco's seaplane two times before. At least on the Finnish translation English dub keeps explaining obvious things a bit too much for my liking, haven't seen it but there's the screenplay on Art of Porco Rosso book which I used as a reference material here. And every character is just so natural, they have clear sense of who they are. It's undoublty one of Miyazaki's lighter movies, compared to Mononoke or Nausicaä for example, but also one aimed more to mature audiences it worked perfectly on me when I was 11 or 12, with air pirates and dogfights and all the humour, but it clearly has references to facism, The Great Recession on so on. Never liked that one much.), but with time it grew better and better. I instantly loved it, like every other Miyazaki film (expect Howl's Moving Castle.
I saw Porco Rosso for the first time in around 9 years ago when our local cinema featured old Ghibli films on their smallest screen. Here's my newest big project finished, Savoia S-21 flying boat from my favorite movie ever, Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso, in miniland scale.
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