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Space model building is not just a hobby. NASA and industry use models for exhibits, education, marketing, etc. They can help make an abstract, technical project real, especially to those paying for it : NASA, aerospace industry depend on scale models to get message across – The Daily Breeze<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Isao Hirai of Scale Model Co. in Hawthorne, California describes his aerospace modeling experiences:<\/p>\n

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Space model building is not just a hobby. NASA and industry use models for exhibits, education, marketing, etc. They can help make an abstract, technical project real, especially to those paying for it : NASA, aerospace industry depend on scale models to get message across – The Daily Breeze. Isao Hirai of Scale Model Co. … Continue reading Space models make spacecraft real<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-models"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-110","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7757,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7757","url_meta":{"origin":3906,"position":0},"title":"Stratosphere Models – kits for X planes, NASA spacecraft and more","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a message from\u00a0Stephane Cochin of\u00a0Stratosphere Models: Stratosphere Models produce the finest, high quality, pressure cast models of X-Planes and NASA\u00a0spacecrafts as well as classified USAF spaceplane kits (several of which required in depth research that lasted several years). 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