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Jiro Horikoshi's dream airplane
Posted by jeaton01
on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 3:33 PM
From the very well done 2013 animated semi-autobiography of Jiro Horikoshi, designer of the Zero, "The Wind Rises". In the movie, the wind came up and the airplane rose straight up off the platform and flew away. The box says it is 1/48 scale but if so young Jiro was one big boy, I think maybe 1/32 is more like it. It is a push together kit, but the fit is superb. The only bit that needed filler was the fit of the trailing edge of the wing, on the bottom surface there is a long seam to fill because the lower wing is shorter in chord than the upper to give a thin trailing edge.
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John
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