The Wind Rises
"Dream" Airplane
From
a semi-biographical animated movie about Jiro Horikoshi, designer of
the Zero.
From a semi-autobiographical animated movie of
the life of Jiro Horikoshi, designer of the Zero. Horikoshi
dreams of building and flying this airplane as a small child,
wearing his nightclothes. Though the stated scale is 1/48, that
would make little Jiro a very large child indeed. The "scale" is
probably closer to 1/32 if the
pilot is used as a reference. The title of the movie is "The Wind
Rises", it is very well done and was nominated for an Academy Award in
2013.