Silicon Valley Scale Modelers

2017 IPMS Nationals Winners

Here is the slideshow that shows all of the winners from the 2017 IPMS USA Nationals in Omaha, Nebraska. Big Thanks to John Heck and Randy Ray for doing the slideshow this year.

This is the slide show from the awards presentation. The winners are posted in the reverse order – after the slide with the name of the category next model is the third place winner then second and then first.

Ships from Australia

Here are last of the ship albums photographed in Australia over Christmas 2015 – HMAS Advance (P 83), HMAS Anzac (FFH 150), HMB Endeavour and Barque James Craig.

Reno Air Races 2015

Just in time to the upcoming Reno Air Races, here are photos of the Reno Air Races 2015. We’ve added the photos of a Grumman TBM-3E Avenger, an Aero Vodochody L-139 Albatross and a Pilatus PC-6 Porter.

Marders

Here is the collection of four German Marder tank destroyers from Saumur armor museum. They are SdKfz.135 Marder I, SdKfz.138 Marder 38H, SdKfz.139 Marder III and Geschutzpanzer 39H(f) 7.5cm PaK 40 Hotchkiss (Marder I).

F-14s

This post is dedicated to one of the most distinctive naval fighters of all time – F-14. We’ve added two walkarounds of the aircraft itself – one of the early production YF-14A Tomcat from March Field Air Museum in Riverside, CA and a regular F-14A Tomcat from USS Hornet in Alameda, CA. We’ve also posted photos of the two weapons used by the F-14 – AIM-9M Sidewinder and AIM-7M Sparrow, both from the F-14 on board the USS Hornet.

Two from France and two from New Zealand

Here are four new artillery albums from two different countries. Two guns from the France are the German 7.7cm Feldkanone 96 and the Soviet 120-HM 38 120mm Mortar, both from the Musée de l’Armée in Paris. The two from New Zealand were photographed in Auckland – British 64pdr RML Coast-Defense Gun and Japanese 13.2mm Type 93 Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun from Auckland War Museum.

Photos from USS Hornet

Here are four albums that were taken on board the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in Alameda, CA. We’ve added a Sikorsky SH-3H Sea King helicopter, North American T-28B Trojan trainer and two ejection seats Marin Baker A5 and Escapac IG3 .

Softskins from around the world

Here are four different softskin albums from four different countries. From Musee des Blindes in Saumur, France we’ve added the Hanomag ST-100, from MVCC Camp Delta 2012 in California we have the LRDG Jeep, from Batey ha-Osef Museum in Tel-Aviv, Israel comes the M4 High Speed Tractor and finally from “Stalin Line” Museum in Zaslavl’, Belarus comes MKD-2M Pit Digging Machine.

Last of the Pacific Coast Dream Machines

Here are the last four albums from the Pacific Coast Dream Machines. There three aircraft walkarounds – Lockheed P-38J Lightning, North American P-51D-25-NA Mustang and Yakovlev Yak-52, as well as the overview of the Pacific Coast Dream Machines 2016.

Modern Ship Thursday

Here are four walkarounds of the modern ships. Three are from San Francisco Fleet Week 2015 – USS Cape St. George CG-71, USS Coronado LCS-4 and USS Stockdale DDG-106. The last was photographed in SydneyAustralia, it is HMAS Adelaide (L01).

Space stuff

Here are four items related to space exploration. They are Soyuz TMA-14 Descent Module from Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA, XCOR Lynx space plane from Mojave Airport, Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) and Apollo Space Capsule Seat from Apollo 10, both photographed at USS Hornet in Alameda, CA

Here are four different artillery pieces from different places in the world. From Batey ha-Osef Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel we have a Soviet S-23 180mm Gun, from Musee des Blindes in Saumur, France we posted a German 2cm Flakvierling 38 Anti-Aircraft Gun, from Sydney, Australia we added the photos of the German 105mm SK/L40 Naval Gun that was removed from the wreck of SMS Emden and finally from Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, CT in US comes a US 106mm M40 Recoilless Rifle.

Patriot’s Point

Here’s more stuff that should have been posted earlier – four aircraft albums made on board USS Yorktown in Patriot’s Point, Charleston, SC in 2012. They are – Grumman F4F-3A Wildcat, Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless, Douglas EA-3B Skywarrior and Sikorsky SH-3G Sea King.