This story along with other Model Graphix “pig” stories were later collected into a compilation book called “Daydream Notes”. Porco Rosso originated from a Hayao Miyazaki manga serialized for the monthly modeling magazine Model Graphix and was originally titled “The Age of the Flying Boat”. Porco’s uneasy friendship with Fio forces himself to deal with his many losses of the past including the greatest loss of all, himself. Porco is brought down and due to circumstance, Porco is forced to have his plane rebuild in Italy by a young Italian-American teenager named Fio Piccolo.
Later, Curtis, an upstart American pilot, is hired by the pirates to shoot Porco down. Marco is known as Porco Rosso, the Crimson Pig, partly due to his trademark aircraft a heavily modified Savoia S.21 he calls “Folgore” that is painted bright red. Living on a deserted isle he only thinks of one person, himself and evolves into a pig, a visual metaphor for “All men are pigs”. Fifteen years later Marco is a pilot for hire in Adriatic Sea flying against seaplane pirates who terrorize the local citizens. Porco Rosso is the story of Macro Pagot a former seaplane pilot who flew for the Italian Navy in the Great War. Next to Kiki’s Delivery Service, Porco Rosso is one of my favorite Miyazaki films.
Porco rosso plane toy license#
Another license Fine Molds has owned over the years is the rights to produce scale models of the aircraft from Hayao Miyazaki’s 1992 feature length film Porco Rosso. After acquiring the licenses for Star Wars plastic model kits and then manufacturing studio accurate kits has resulted in Fine Molds as one of the leading model companies in the eyes of the international model community.Īlthough their kits are usually more expensive than other maker’s kits in the same scale, they are also some of the finest scale representations of the subject available. Japan-based Fine Molds is currently one of the world’s premier model kit manufactures. Fine Molds’ The Age of the Flying Boat / 1/72 Porco Rosso’s Savoia S.21 Early / Late Fio Type.
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