Authors and Build Records
This is the English navigation page for makers and build records in the Japanese Solid Model Archive. It provides entrances to author profiles, construction records, reform records, and interpretive reading pages.
Build Records Index
For a complete list of available construction and reform records, start with the index page.
The index brings together construction process records, reform records, and parts-based process records preserved in this archive.
Authors
Kazu Fukuda
Kazu Fukuda is one of the most important makers in this archive. He left not only completed solid models, but also detailed photographic and textual records of his making processes.
His records are especially valuable because they show materials, shaping, trial fitting, corrections, surface preparation, painting, markings, and final assembly.
Yasuichi Takami
Yasuichi Takami is an important maker for understanding Japanese solid model culture in the 1960s. His construction articles and technical records provide valuable evidence of how solid models were made and explained during that period.
Masami Ōmachi
Masami Ōmachi is an important figure in postwar Japanese aircraft solid model culture. Through magazine articles, notes, and related materials, he helped transmit techniques and ideas about solid model making.
Available Build and Reform Records
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D-9 Record
Maker: Kazu Fukuda
Scale: 1:50
Type of record: Detailed construction process record
This record follows the making of a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D-9 solid model from materials, shaping, surface preparation, painting, markings, final assembly, and completion.
It is one of the core records in this archive because it shows how the aircraft form gradually emerged through the making process.
Main stages: references / material cutting / mock-up / accessory parts / undercoat / top coat / final assembly
Heinkel He 115 B Reform Record
Maker: Kazu Fukuda
Scale: 1:50
Type of record: Reform record of an already completed model
This record shows the large-scale reform of a Heinkel He 115 B solid model that had already been completed once.
The model was reopened, corrected, rebuilt in important areas, repainted, and brought to a renewed completion. It is especially valuable because it shows that completion is not always the end of making.
→ Heinkel He 115 B Reform Record
Main contents: removing old paint / rebuilding the nose section / canopy work / surface preparation / markings / camouflage painting / renewed completion
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 C-3 Construction Record
Maker: Kazu Fukuda
Scale: 1:50
Type of record: Parts-based and process-based construction record
This record follows the making of a large four-engined Fw 200 C-3 solid model.
The original materials were organized mainly by parts and processes. In this archive, the record has been reorganized as much as possible according to confirmed dates and the flow of construction.
→ Fw 200 C-3 Construction Record
Main contents: material cutting / trial assembly / interior work / nacelles / propellers / engines / bombs / painting / final assembly / completion
Reading Pages
Reading pages are interpretive pages. They are intended to help readers understand construction records not only as sequences of work, but also as records of form, judgment, correction, and integration.
About the Archive
This archive aims to preserve not only completed solid models, but also construction processes, corrections, judgments, photographs, and records.
For more about the purpose and background of the archive, see: