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Many modern models are designed using 3D technology to achieve accuracy. Revell is presently working on a new tool 1/32 scale Harrier kit and is showing how the design work is being done through a series of wonderful YouTube videos.

In their latest video (August, 2026), Revell designers show how 3D scanning is used to help design the cockpit and other features.

For those not familiar with scanning technology tools like photogrammetry, you can clearly see how scanning tech creates a very crude 3D model that must be further refined manually in order to be usable. Scanning does not produce a ready-to-print or ready-to-mold model.

Scanning does, however, produce a 3D form from which a very accurate model can be designed through a technique some call "3D tracing".

See Revell design Chris explain how it's done:





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