Welcome to the home of Hawaiian Air Depot, a digital design company specializing in aftermarket mask and part designs for scale aircraft modelers.

Named for the famous facility at Hickam Field, our Hawaiian Air Depot has a similar mission: to outfit and paint scale model aircraft.  We supply modelers with downloadable digital designs for cutting masks and styrene detail parts on Silhouette and Cricut printers.

Each product is carefully designed for a particular kit and tested by meticulously hand-fitting prototypes to the actual kit parts. Insignia and other markings are scaled to published dimensions and period photographs when available. Styrene parts are designed with an eye toward scale fidelity, replacing oversized detail such as ribbing and panels— anywhere an over-scale edge is visible— with finer renditions you can cut from .005-.020 sheet styrene.

A typical Hawaiian Air Depot product includes SVG and DXF digital files for cutting masks and styrene parts. PDFs are included for instructions and paper templates. Files are sized to fit popular craft printer formats and commercially available mediums. Paper templates can be printed on an ordinary office printer and instructions may also be viewed on any digital screen.

When a purchase is made a 24-hour link is sent via email to access a secure download of the purchased files. All files purchased from Hawaiian Air Depot include a license for personal use. Licensees are welcome to print copies for all the kits in their stash. Those familiar with vector drawing programs are welcome to modify the designs to customize their own projects.

We think this approach is a good solution to the rising costs of the scale modeling hobby. For us, it creates a more flexible and cost-effective way to offer comprehensive designs for the widest variety of kits and scales. For modelers at home it offers more value and versatility; after an initial investment in a cutter and materials— about the same expense as our airbrushes and compressors— digital files promise more versatile, customizable products at a lower cost.