About Us

Who We Are

We are scale modelers just like you.  We opened in 2014 and since our first day in business, Model Monkey has been bringing exceptionally accurate and highly detailed 3D-printed products to scale modelers world-wide.   

Model Monkey is a family-run, veteran-owned business offering 3D-printed products in different materials.  We do our best to ensure a permanent variety of excellent models is available.  Presently, we offer over 2500 products for advanced scale modelers.  We offer nameplates for over 1000 modeling subjects including space shuttle orbiters, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, armored vehicles, boats, ships and submarines.  Our models are 3D-printed in gray resin.  Nameplates are available in your choice of various real metals or inexpensive, paintable white acrylic plastic.

Our gray resin scale models are 3D-printed in our own workshop in North Carolina, USA using high-end, state-of-the-art 3D-printing technology.  Click here to learn more about our 3D-printed gray resin plastic and support removal advice.  Metal and acrylic plastic nameplates, models that are too big for our own 3D printers, and designs that are not suitable for our own 3D printers, are sold by Shapeways (click here).  Shapeways prints Model Monkey designs at their factories in New York, USA, and Eindhoven, The Netherlands, or by Shapeways' partners world-wide.

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We design our models using sophisticated computer-aided design (CAD) software from the most authoritative references.   Our designs are based on:

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• high-resolution scans of original manufacturers' blueprints

• US Navy, US Army, and US Army Air Forces plans and technical publications

• high-resolution scans of official photographs and drawings obtained from the US National Archives

• Admiralty (Royal Navy) and Royal Air Force plans and technical publications

• Imperial War Museum plans and technical publications

• Bundesmuseum plans and technical publications

• scans of captured builder's plans held by the Bureau d'études de l'Atelier d'Issy-les-MoulineauX  (AMX)

• measurements taken directly from surviving artifacts and museum aircraft, tanks and ships

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Many of our designs benefit from the gracious assistance and advice of subject-matter experts, museum staff, researchers and noted historians. 

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We gladly accept requests for custom named metal or plastic nameplates.

We do not accept requests for new products, alterations to existing designs, or free products.

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Disclaimer: Model Monkey produces a wide variety of scale models representing historically significant subjects.  Our models are created and sold without regard to political or cultural ideologies.  Model Monkey does not support or subscribe to any political or cultural ideology that promotes harm or hatred toward anyone, anywhere.

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Have fun.  Monkey around.

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When you access this catalog, your identity and precise location are not identified or recorded by Model Monkey.  When you subscribe or make a purchase, Model Monkey uses your personal information only to communicate with you or process your order.