I mostly post about finished creations of mine, but there might be other content, sometimes - event reports and such. This blog is about my adventures and experiences with LEGO bricks, one of numerous art mediums I like fiddling with. I am a freshly graduated arcitect (history of architecture a speciality) and I currently live in Tampere, the biggest inland city in Nordic Countries. My name is Eero Okkonen and I'm a 1995 born AFOL from eastern Finland, the land of northern lights. It's also fun that the handlebar moustache is actually a handlebar. Not easy though, as it was challenging to make aviation goggles, snout and the handlebar moustache in such a small space. I have been fiddling with character builds a lot lately so it was just natural. I also built the pilot himself, Marco Pagotti, the Crimson Pig. There weren't any proper yellow propellor pieces so I had to built it.
The propellor was a tricky bit: Two minifig hammer go inside the 2x2x3 cone, 1x1 cones are connected to them. The details populate the engine, which was a pleasing bit to build. The wings and the rudder took lot of curved sloped, but it was totally worth it. There are some studs on the sides, but I'm not bothered by them as there isn't much substitutes for those 12x3 wedges. I managed to make it rather polished and aerodynamic. Fortunately Art of Porco Rosso book had plenty of photos, including the blueprints of the plane. It was more shape and measure-based model than those dwarves.
I had worked on things based on reference photos before with my Hobbit project, but this was quite different. The rest on two 4x4 plates with four studs. This is not super sturdy, but stays on one piece with some swooshing and basic handling. It took two Bricklink orders more and painly designing with pontoons, which are a bit offset to put them on line with the fuselage The support cords were tricky too. So I decided to finish Porco's flying boat. Our theme was "popular culture overall" (con's theme, "Sport in anime" was a bit too small.) but I though it would be nice to have some anime stuff too, especially when Miyazaki's art has always had so huge influence on me. It was announced that Finnish LUG Palikkatakomo would have an exhibit on an anime convention in Kuopion, medium-sized Finnish city 150 kilometers from me. A few moths later I made a Bricklink order and bough the curved sloped for the wings. 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.
#Porco rosso plane model movie
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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