Welcome to the Silicon Valley Scale Modelers Website. SVSM is a Region IX chapter of IPMS/USA.

Winner of the Region IX 2002, 2003 & 2006 Chapter of the Year Award Winner of IPMS/USA 2006 Webmaster of the Year Award

SVSM is a club dedicated to the promotion of the hobby of scale modeling. Our meetings feature modeling subjects and programs covering all areas and genres of the hobby. Our meetings are open to visitors (see the meetings page for directions and maps) and frequently feature a monthly contest.

What's New?

An armored train and a rail road gun provide an update to our railroad section.  We've added the Armored Locomotive, Armored Anti-Aircraft Platform and Armored Artillery Platform from Krasnovostochnik armored train photographed in Moscow as well as added 83 new photos to the Soviet 180mm TM-1-180 Rail Road Gun.

Aircraft for today are all once again from Pima and they are Grumman F9F-4 Panther, Consolidated B-24J Liberator, North-American RA-5C Vigilante and Sikorsky UH-19B Chickasaw.

Artillery update for today comes to us all the way from Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels, Belgium.  We've added the albums with the Belgian 75mm Cockerill-Nordenfeld Mle 1898 Field Gun, 1867 Christophe & Montigny Mitrailleuse and German 5.3cm Fahrpanzer Gun Cupola.

Doing some cleanup we've posted the last of the photos from the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, Austria - the M60A3 MBT, Raketenjagdpanzer (RakJPz) Jaguar 1 tank destroyer and Su-100 self-propelled gun, as well as T-34/85 from Prague.

After some missed aircraft updates due to the holidays, we are back on track with this update from Pima - Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt II, Piasecki HUP-3 (H-25A) Retriever, Boeing YC-14 and Teledyne Ryan AQM-34L Compass Bin drone were all added to the gallery.

Let's begin the new year with a softskin update from Tankland in El Monte.  We've added the  Ford GTB-1 "Burma Jeep"M422A1 Mighty MiteLARC-V Lighter, Amphibious Resupply, Cargo, 5 ton and MJ-1A, Truck, Lift-Type, Bomb Loader.

In the last update of the 2011 we've added a bunch of naval related updates - USS Antietam CG-54, Hagar Floating Crane, A-90 Orlenok Ekranoplan and US 5" Mark 30 Dual-Purpose Naval Mount.

Another Pima update gives us the photos of - North American F-107A, Convair B-58A Hustler, Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune and McDonnell-Douglas C-9B Skytrain II.

The armor update for today comes from the Littlefield collection and contains the albums for AMX-13, M7B2 Priest, TrailBlazer ARV and 115 new photos for the PzKpfw IVH album.

More aircraft from Pima were added to the gallery - Douglas F4D-1 (F-6A) Skyray, Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt II, Lockheed T-1A (T2V-1) Seastar and Bell AH-1S Cobra.