Nick Proach has been building models since the age of eleven, graduating to space modeling at the time of the Apollo 11 lunar landing in 1969. What started as an all-consuming hobby in the late 1960’s for a fourteen- year-old fascinated with the space program (he built his first professional spacecraft model at the age of seventeen) has grown to become a full-time business undertaken with passion by a man still in love with space flight.

In 1975 Nick built a model, which was used by CTV, for their coverage of the historic Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, which saw the first International meeting in space between Russia and the United States.

In 1985 Nick did what no other model maker was able to do – he created a 1/5 scale working model of Canada’s Anik C communications satellite for Telesat Canada. The model was designed to simulate its deployment sequence. The model, based on the Hughes 376 design, spun and fully deployed itself, a sequence which was completed on budget. This was a feat other model makers had tried over a period of years but could not produce. It was Nick’s intimate knowledge of the satellite and its functions that lead to this success.

In 1986 Nick, with the help of Longin Reich, created two large models purchased by the Canadian Government to use in the Canada Pavilion at Expo 86, the world’s fair held that year in Vancouver, British Columbia. One model was the early US Space Station “Freedom”, and measured over 15 feet long. The other was a 1/4 scale model of Canada’s proposed MSAT (mobile satellite), which measured over 28 feet in length. See Our Gallery.

In 1994 Nick combined his knowledge of space flight and space hardware with his expertise of model making to form Proach Models. His wife, Connie handles the secretarial and bookkeeping aspect of the business. Proach Models also has a small team of talented employees. 

Proach Models is dedicated to keeping the memory of the glory days of space flight alive by creating the most detailed, most sought after museum and desktop model replicas of those early spacecraft and rockets, most of which are American subjects.

For the last 45 years, Nick Proach has closely followed the US, Russian and Canadian Space programs and is able to produce a model of any aerospace subject. It does not matter whether it has flown or is currently under development – Proach Models will tackle any model display project.

We have numerous contacts in NASA and the aerospace community at large. Nick is well known as a “Space Historian”, and he has a vast library of records from all manned and unmanned spaceflights. He also takes time to keep up with developments in the aerospace field and is a regular contributor in space-related magazines and periodicals.

We are big promoters of aerospace education and will address groups of any size to discuss developments in the various Space Programs from countries around the world. We are also more than willing to talk about Proach Models’ experiences building various complex projects .

Proach Models can build models of spacecraft, rockets, probes, aircraft, missiles, and mockups for museums, displays and presentations. We can meet any model-making needs, from conceptual designs to the finished replica model implementation.

Contact us today to see how we can assist you with your project. We can be reached at spacemodel@dccnet.com or by phone at 1-800-293-8877.