Solid models are not only about displaying finished objects. They are also a way of understanding form, recording the process of making, and handing that record on to others. fine-scale.net is designed as a quiet gateway to that culture.
What is gathered here is not merely a set of links, but different dimensions of solid model culture.
A solid model placed between form and record
To enter the world of solid models, one first needs a place to see the works and the records surrounding them. The Japanese Solid Model Archive is intended to serve as that central point of access.
The archive presents Japanese solid model building records in both Japanese and English. It preserves not only finished works, but also makers, processes, decisions, documents, and ways of understanding aircraft form.
Japanese solid model culture can be approached not only through finished works, but through records that preserve process, judgment, and ways of seeing form. From Masami Omachi to Takami and Fukuda, these pages trace a continuing tradition carried across different makers and generations.
Follow a connected flow of records from Omachi to Takami and Fukuda. These pages are not simply a list of works, but an entry into how Japanese solid model culture has been sustained through making, documentation, and the reading of form.
Essays, notes, and activity reports that place solid models in a broader cultural context.
The outward-facing English voice of the project, presenting essays that connect making, culture, and the reading of form.
Japanese-language notes, activity reports, and background reflections that support the archive and its wider context.
A place where exchanges and discussions about solid models have accumulated over time.
Today, it also serves as an archive of accumulated exchanges and discussions, complementing the more structured records and essays gathered elsewhere on the site.