THE FINISHED MODEL: In the Manga: Originally published in Weekly Shonen Sunday, issue number 51 in 1974, the “Black Knight of Berlin” (ベルリンの黒騎士 ) is one of the more popular chapters of what is now known as Leiji Matsumoto’s The…
The finished model: In the comics: The Enemy Ace… in WWII?! Okay, I’ve long been a fan of Hans von Hammer, aka “The Hammer of Hell”, aka “The Enemy Ace”, but I’ll save some of those ramblings for my project…
The finished model: In the comics: Lt. Johnny (Flying) Cloud, aka “The Navajo Ace”, first appeared in the DC Comics All-American Men of War #82 (1960). A member of the Navajo, Flying Cloud was named after a cloud resembling an Amerindian…
Tales from Earthsea (Japanese: ゲド戦記, Hepburn: Gedo Senki, literally Ged’s War Chronicles) is a 2006 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Gorō Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Mitsubishi and Toho, and distributed by the latter company. The film is based on a combination of plot…
Ponyo (Japanese: 崖の上のポニョ Hepburn: Gake no Ue no Ponyo, literally “Ponyo on the Cliff”), initially titled in English as Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, is a 2008 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Buena…
The finished model: The scene: Shin’s F-20 Tigershark vs. Kanzaki’s F-18… in the final fight… to the death. That’s it. Check out the original manga scene from the FINAL Chapter 172 “Battlefield of Sand” here: The story: Really… what is…
The finished model: The scene: In a flashback scene, Mickey recalls his time in Vietnam. After a crash landing closes the flight deck of his aircraft carrier, Mickey’s squadron of F-14A Tomcats is diverted to a Marine airbase in Da…
The finished model: The scene: The mercenaries are on a mission to destroy an enemy supply base. As they fly in for a low-altitude bombing run, they are shocked by a deadly surprise – The Fang. The defensive perimeter barrier…
The finished model: The scene: After her father instructs her to return to Japan, Ryoko and Taeko book a flight on MacGregor airlines after all the Yamato Airlines flights are sold out. At the Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris,…
DANS les années qui précédèrent la guerre de 1939-1945, les Italiens construisirent d’excellents appareils de bombardement. En revanche la ” Regia Aeronautica ” ne comptait que des chasseurs de faible valeur (le Fiat C-50, notamment). Les constructeurs établirent de nouveaux plans, mais comme…