Silicon Valley Scale Modelers

Last photos from the Flying Heritage Collection

Here are last four walkarounds from the Flying Heritage Collection in Everett, WA. They are Focke-Wulf Fw 190A5, Fieseler Fi-103R Reichenberg, Feiseler Fi-156 Storch and Sakae 12 Engine.

USS Bowfin

Here are three albums made in Pearl Harbor at the USS Bowfin Park. We’ve posted the photos of the USS Bowfin SS-287 itself, the 5″/25 Mark 17 Gun photographed on board the submarine and the SRC-15 Submarine Rescue Chamber photographed at the park.

Adversaries

Here are four walkarounds of the fighters from Flying Heritage Collection that might have met in combat in the skies of WWII – Messerschmitt Bf-109E-3 and Polikarpov I-16 Type 24 from the Eastern Front, as well as Nakajima Ki-43-1b Hayabusa and Curtiss P-40C Warhawk from the skies over Pacific.

Overviews of the museums and events

Here are four different overviews of the museums and events that accumulated recently and have no attached walkarounds to them. The two event overviews are Tankfest Northwest 2015 that went on at Flying Heritage Collection in Everett, WA and Mojave Airport Open House 2013. The two museum overviews are USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, HI and Fly’N’ Wheels automotive museum in Torrance, CA.

Flying Heritage Collection

Here is a new series of photos from Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage Collection in Everett, WA. We’ve added the walkarounds of Curtiss JN-4D Jenny, Hawker Hurricane Mk.XII and Ilyushin Il-2M3 Shturmovik.

Aircraft from around San Francisco Bay Area

Here are four aircraft photographed in various times in various locations of San Francisco Bay Area. The Ford 5-AT-B Tri-Motor was photographed in Hayward, CA during the EAA visit to that airport. The General Motors FM-2 Wildcat was photographed on board USS Hornet in Alameda, CA. A very early Douglas A4D-1 Skyhawk is a gate-guard at the former NAS Alameda. And finally the Lockheed ER-2 (NASA version of the U-2) was shot at Moffett Air Museum in Sunnyvale, CA.

British armor from Saumur

Here are four British subjects from the Musee des Blindes in Saumur, France – Churchill Mk VI, Cruiser Tank Mk VIII Centaur, Crusader III, AA Mk III and FV1620 Humber Hornet.

Four more from Thunder Over Utah

Here are the last 4 albums shot at the Thunder Over Utah 2014 air show. They are – BAC Jet Provost P84 T3A, Canadair CT-133AN Silver Star 3, Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk and Mikoryan Mig-17F (Lim-5).

Fort Hancock

Here is a set of photos taken at Fort Hancock in NJ. We’ve posted the photos of the remains of the coast defense batteries from there as well as US 6in Model 1900 coast defense gun and MIM-3 Nike Ajax missile on display at the fort grounds.

USS Hornet Model Contest

Here are the photos from last weekend’s USS Hornet Model Show. Big thanks to all of the organizers and participants for a fun show.

Thunder Over Utah

Continuing to catch up with older photosets, here are three walkasounds shot at Thunder Over Utah Air Show 2014. The new albums are Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-15, Canadair CT-133AN Silver Star 3 and Fokker C-31A Troopship.

Around the world – Softskins

Here is another from out “Around the world” series of posts, this one is with softskins from four different countries. From Israel we have a Shilem Radar, photographed in Batey ha-Osef Museum in Tel Aviv, from Belarus we bring you a PTS-M Tracked Amphibious Transporter from “Stalin Line” Museum near Minsk, from France, comes a WWI GMC Ambulance from Musee des Blindes in Saumur and from USA here is a Corbitt Model 50SD6 truck from Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, CT.