SPECIAL FEATURES
Reading solid model culture through build records, makers, and preserved works.
EXHIBITION GATEWAY
These special features introduce solid models not merely as finished objects, but as records of making, correction, judgment, and preservation. Through individual makers and their records, this section traces how solid model making was practiced, explained, and handed down within Japanese model culture.
SPECIAL FEATURE 01
A maker who left the process of making as a record.
This feature reads a solid model not only as a finished work, but also as a record of making, correction, and judgment. Fukuda’s build record is introduced as a process through which form gradually comes into being.
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A writer who conveyed solid model techniques through postwar model magazines.
This upcoming feature will revisit solid model building articles preserved in postwar Japanese model magazines. Through Omachi’s writings, it will trace how solid model making was explained, taught, and valued within Japanese model culture.
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A maker who showed the possibilities of solid models in the jet-aircraft era.
This upcoming feature will examine what it meant to build a jet aircraft as a solid model. By reading Takami’s F-4B Phantom article together with its historical context, it will consider how solid model making developed beyond the propeller-aircraft tradition.
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These special features serve as gateways. More detailed build records, maker profiles, and work pages are connected to the DokuWiki archive and to the continuing discussions in the forum.
