Silicon Valley Scale Modelers – Page 2 – SVSM is a Region IX chapter of IPMS/USA

Capital City Airshow 2016

Starting a new set of photos from the Sacramento’s Capital City Airshow 2016, we’ve added three walkaround albums. They are Lockheed F-35A Lightning II, North American T-6G Texan and Air Tractor AT-802A Fire Boss.

Maritime update

Maritime themed update today bring us the photos of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, the Diving Suit and 2.5″ Lyle Lifesaving Cannon from there, as well as 1918 Yacht Zumbrota photographed in Rio Del Mar, CA.

Last of the USAF Museum

We finally reached the end of the photos taken at the UASF Museum at Dayton, OH. The last four galleries are Junkers Ju 88D-1/Trop, Piper Pa-48 Enforcer, Boeing X-36 and a Ruhrstahl SD 1400 X (Fritz X) Guided Bomb.

Yet another post from Dayton

Almost done with photos from Dayton, here are four new ones – “Naked” North American F-86H Sabre, DFS SG 38 Schulgleiter, General Atomics YMQ-9 Reaper and Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar

HornetCon 2018

Here are the photos from the last weekend’s HornetCon 2018, that was held on board USS Hornet in Alameda. Thanks a lot to everyone who braved the bad air quality to come out for the contest.

Last of the Hiller photos

Here are last four of the photo sets from the Hiller Seaplane fly-in – Republic RC-3 Sea Bee, Bede BD-5T, Lake LA-4A Buccaneer and 1958 Messerschmidt Cabin Scooter KR200.

Softskins from South Carolina

Here are four albums from the South Carolina Military Museum. They are M38A1C Jeep with M40 106mm Recoilless Rifle, M274A5 Mule, LARC V and Hotchkiss Portable Light Machine Gun Mk.1.

New Dayton photos

Here are four more albums from the USAF museum in Dayton, OH. They are – Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc, Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk, WACO CG-4A Haig and A-3 Lifeboat.

Armor from Israel

Here are four new armor walkarounds from Israeli Batey ha-Osef museum – Shot Kal Alef tank, M3 Mk.D mortar carrier, Panhard AML-90 armore car and M577 command vehicle.

Hiller Museum Seaplane Fly-in

Here are three albums from the Hiller Museum Sea Plane Fly-in 2013, they are Grumman HU-16RD Albatross, Cessna A185F Skywagon and de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver MK.I.

More USAF Museum albums

Here are four more albums from the USAF Museum in Dayton – Consolidated PT-1 Trusty, North American T-6D Mosquito, Lockheed VC-140B JetStar and V-1710-85 Engine with 37mm M4 Cannon.

New artillery albums

Here are four new artillery walkarounds. Two of them are from South Carolina Military Museum – the Spanish 18pdr Fortress Cannon and the German 10.5 cm leFH 16 Field Howitzer and two more are from Saumur – the Italian Obice da 75mm/18 Modello 35 and the French 47mm SA37 Anti-Tank Gun.

This and That

Here are four albums that are all loosely related to aviation – Canadair CL-13 Sabre, JB-2 Loon, AGM-78 Standard ARM and Hough T500 tow vehicle.

Here are the last of the long long running set of the photos from the MVCC Camp Delta photos. They are M35A3 truck, M274A2 Mule with 106mm M40A2 Recoilless Rifle, Dodge WC-52 and Dodge WC12 truck from Fort MacArthur in San Pedro, CA.

Yet another post from Dayton

Continuing to post albums from the National Museum of the USAF, we’ve added the photos of Caquot Type R Observation Balloon, Bell P-63E Kingcobra, American Helicopter Company XH-26 Jet Jeep and M40 Parafrag Bomb.

Armor from Canada

Here are four new albums from Aquino Tank Weekend in Oshawa, ON last year. We’ve added the photos of Leopard C1, Sabre CVR(T) FV107, FV701 Ferret Mk.1 and M113A1 MTV-E.

IPMS USA 2018 Nationals

Just back from the IPMS USA 2018 national convention in Phoenix. Big thanks to the crew that put on the convention, it was great as usual. We’ve posted the photos of most of the models that were present at the convention. You can see them at the SVSM Gallery.

We’ve also posted the presentation from the awards banquet. 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.

Last of the Hollister photos

Finally finished posting the last of the photos from Hollister air shows. We’ve posted the Hollister Air Show 2015 overview as well as the walkarounds of the Curtiss P-40E-CU Warhawk, Piper J5A Cub and Waco UPF-7.