Posted four new naval themed albums. We’ve added USS Constitution from Boston, MA, 2-Ton Crane from Havenmuseum in Rotterdam, Netherlands and two guns from The National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington, DC – a US 3pdr Mark 15 Naval Gun and a US 12pdr Dahlgren Boat Howitzer.
Photos from yesterday’s Silicon Valley 2014 Classic
Yesterday’s contest was a great success, thanks to everyone who came and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Here are the photos from the contest.
Pacific Coast Dream Machines 2012
Running just two years behind on content here are new albums from Pacific Coast Dream Machines 2012 – North American T-28B Trojan, Beechcraft A36 Bonanza and Bleriot XI replica.
A little bit of everything
Posted four new albums from Israeli museums to the four different sections – AMX-13, PR-14 Transporter for the SA-3 missiles, Mercedes Unimog with ZPU-4 and Soviet 130mm M46 Field Gun.
Last of the aircraft from Minsk
Posting the last three photographs from Minsk-Borovaya Air Museum – Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-25PU, Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-29 (9-13) and Kamov Ka-26. And just to bring up the post to the regular four walkarounds were is an Antonov-PZL Mielec An-2 Antek photographed in Mojave Airport.
Naval photos
Updated the ship section of the gallery with new albums for HMCS Ottawa FFH-341 from San Francisco Fleet Week 2011, Russian Tallship Pallada from it’s visit to San Francisco in 2011, 1921 vintage Tugboat Finland from Havenmuseum in Rotterdam, Netherlands and US 1.1mm/75 Mark 1 Quad Anti-Aircraft Mount from USS Yorktown CV-10 in Patriots Point, Charleston SC.
Aero-space photos
Posted two more albums from Minsk-Borovaya air museum – Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-27K and Ilyushin Il-18V, also added the last two albums from the LA Science Center – Lockheed F-104D Starfighter and Mercury-Redstone 2 Space Capsule.
Next meeting is our annual Gift Exchange party
Reminder that next meeting on Friday December 20th will be out annual holiday gift exchange, there will be no model talk during the meeting. If you want to participate in the gift exchange bring up to three gift wrapped models with you. Please read official gift exchange rules here before the meeting.
Softskin photos from MVCC
Added four new albums of the vehicles photographed at various MVCC conventions in the last couple of years – M38A1 with 106mm M40A2 Recoilless Rifle, Gama Goat Prototype, GMC CCKW-353, 2 1/2 ton, 6×6 truck with ST-6 Shop and .30 Caliber, M1917 Browning Machine Gun on a M1917A2 tripod.
More aerospace walkarounds from LA
Posted four more albums from LA’s California Science Center – Wright Glider, Northrop T-38A Talon, Douglas DC-8-52 and Gemini 11 Space Capsule.
New armor photos
Added two new albums from Latrun and two more from MVTF. The Latrun albums are ZSU-57-2 and BTR-152 BREM, while the MVTF photos are Universal Carrier Mark II and T-72M (almost 400 photos).
More Russian aircraft
Posted the last two albums from Moscow’s Zadorozhny museum – Yakovlev Yak-25M and Yakovlev Yak-23UTI, also added two more from Minsk-Borovaya Air Museum – Mil Mi-1M and Tupolev Tu-134A.
IPMS Fremont’s Tri-City Classic IX Contest Photos
Posted the photos from last weekend’s IPMS Fremont’s Tri-City Classic IX Contest. There were over 230 models on the tables and the show went off without a hitch. Thank to everyone who came to the show.
New Naval Walkarounds
Posted four new naval themed albums – USS Bonhomme Richard LHD-6 from San Francisco Fleet Week 2011, USS Albacore AGSS-569 from Portsmouth, NH, Tugboat Maashaven from Havenmuseum in Rotterdam, Netherlands and US 47mm Hotchkiss 5-Barrel Revolver Gun from National Museum of the United States Navy located in the Navy Yard, Washington, DC.
Aircraft from LA
Added four new albums from LA’s California Science Center – Lockheed A-12, Northrop F-20A Tigershark, Velie Monocoupe Model 70 and Apollo-Soyuz Capsule.
Armor Update
In today’s armor update we have two tanks from MVTF – M48 Prototype and M4A3E8 76(W), as well as two armored vehicles from Military Museum of Southern New England – Spähpanzer Luchs and Pansarbandvagn Pbv 302A.
More Russian Aircraft photos
Posted four more aircraft albums taken Russia and Belarus. They are Yakovlev Yak-141 from Zadorozhny museum, Mil Mi-2 and Antonov An-26LL from Minsk-Borovaya air museum and finally Soviet FAB-5000 Bomb from Victory Park museum in Moscow.
Photos from the IPMS USA Nationals
We’ve posted the photos of (almost) all of the models from the IPMS USA 2013 Nationals that just concluded in Loveland, CO – over 2500 photos.
We’ve also posted the Awards Presentation Slide Show that shows all of the winners for every category in the contest. 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.
New model and more walkarounds
We’ve added a new model to the Member’s Models section – United Fruit Company Freighter MV Worden scratchbuilt in 1/700 scale by Vladimir Yakubov.
We’ve also updated the softskin section with the photos of M135 truck, 1939 Chevrolet Master Deluxe 4-Door staff car, M116 Husky all terrain vehicle and GSP Tracked Self-Propelled Ferry.
We have redesigned our website!
Welcome to our new website! We completely redesigned the site on the new engine and with the new updated look and better functionality. Unfortunately the links to the pages on the old site will no longer work, so please update your bookmarks.