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At the heart of our Hyper Scale design philosophy is the real aircraft. Scanning the actual aircraft captures every detail and allows us to reverse engineer the scan data into a useable solid model, which we can then use as a base for our kit design. There is no doubt our Hyper Scale F105D is...

SeaDart Test 1 (SDT1) From the very first meeting with the client I expressed a concern as to how heavy we need to make the model so it sits at the correct waterline. To have it bobbing on the water like a bath toy just isn't acceptable. We are going to great lengths to assure scale fidelity...

The first task was to research the aircraft extensively. Starting with the obligatory Googling we found plenty of dead ends but it did lead us to San Diego Air & Space Museum who have the archives for Convair. They were beyond helpful and without their valuable input this project would be that...

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Have an idea for one of our kits? This is the place to post it and you may see it integrated into our development.

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The research was complete enough to start making a decisions regarding our approach to the model. Many scales were discussed and after weighing up all the options we enthusiastically went with 1/4 scale which makes the model over 4 meters (157 inches) in length and 2.5 meters (98 inches) in...

With the help of San Diego Air & Space Museum we were able to understand the history of the SeaDart. SDASM by Alex Jones, on Flickr

Onto the actual build... The first task was to cut the apertures for the cockpit and ski wells and install the two main formers that join the rear half of the fuselage to the front section. We have a glass pre-preg fuselage structure with Nomex core and monolithic carbon pre-preg ski wells...