To browse the available construction and reform records, start with the following index page.

• Build Records Index

This index lists the published construction records, reform records, and process-based records currently available in the archive.

Kazu Fukuda

Kazu Fukuda was one of the makers who supported postwar Japanese solid model culture. He is especially important to this archive because he left not only completed models, but also many records showing processes, corrections, and decisions.

→ View Kazu Fukuda author page

Yasuichi Takami

Yasuichi Takami was an important maker in Japanese solid model magazine articles of the 1960s. His construction articles, including those on jet aircraft, provide valuable clues for understanding solid model techniques of that period.

→ View Yasuichi Takami author page

Masami Ōmachi

Masami Ōmachi was an important postwar maker who introduced aircraft solid model making through magazine articles and other publications. Also known by the pen name “Sora no Pierrot,” he is an essential figure for understanding the early culture of Japanese solid models.

→ View Masami Ōmachi author page

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D-9 Construction Record

Maker: Kazu Fukuda
Scale: 1:50
Type of record: Detailed construction process record

This record follows the construction 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 basic records for understanding Fukuda’s construction process.

→ Go to the Fw 190 D-9 Construction Record

Heinkel He 115 B Reform Record

Maker: Kazu Fukuda
Scale: 1:50
Type of record: Reform record of an already completed model

This record follows the process in which a model that had once been completed was reopened, corrected, repainted, and brought to a renewed state of completion after deterioration and problems had been identified. It is an important record because it shows that completion is not always the end of making, but can become the starting point for reconsideration and correction.

→ Go to the Heinkel He 115 B Reform Record

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 construction of the large four-engined Fw 200 C-3 through material cutting, interior work, nacelles, cowlings, propellers, engines, bombs, painting, and final assembly. The original materials had been organized by parts and processes. In this archive, they have been reconstructed as far as possible according to confirmed dates and the flow of construction.

→ Go to the Fw 200 C-3 Construction Record

These pages read the construction record not merely as a sequence of procedures, but from the perspectives of how form emerges, how decisions are made, how invisible interior work supports the completed model, and how separate processes are integrated into a final form.

• Fw 200 C-3 Reading 01 — How Did the Overall Form Emerge?
• Fw 200 C-3 Reading 02 — Invisible Interiors and Detailed Work
• Fw 200 C-3 Reading 03 — The Judgment to Wait and Integration Toward the Completed Form

The main author pages and construction records are published in both Japanese and English as far as possible.

• 制作記録索引
• 福田和 プロフィール
• Fw 190 D-9 制作記録
• Heinkel He 115 B 改修記録
• Fw 200 C-3 制作記録

This site aims to preserve not only completed solid models, but also processes, corrections, decisions, and records.

Construction records are published in Japanese and English in parallel as far as possible. However, the page structure and publication status may differ from record to record, depending on the nature of the source materials and the progress of archival organization.