artillery – Silicon Valley Scale Modelers

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.

HMCS Haida

Here are the photos of the museum ship – destroyer HMCS Haida (DDE-215) located in Hamilton, ON, Canada. In addition to the ship itself here are the photos of various armaments from the ship – Quad Torpedo Launcher with Mk.IX Torpedoes, 4-inch/45 Mk.16 Twin Naval Mount, 40mm Mark VII Bofors Anti-Aircraft Mount and 40-mm QF2 Mk. VIII Single Anti-Aircraft Mount.

New softskins

Here are four new softskin albums taken at various VMCC Camp Delta events. They are 1942 Chevrolet Truck, M151A2 MUTT, Ford GPW and US 155mm M114A2 Howitzer on M1A1 Carriage.

Guns of Fort Rodd Hill

In this update we have added the various artillery pieces that are displayed on the grounds of the Canadian Fort Rodd-Hill in Esquimalt, BC. The guns that were added are US 90mm M1A2 Anti-Aircraft Gun, British 13-pdr RML Field Gun and British 12pdr QF Coast Defense Gun.

Last of the Military Museum of Southern New England

Here are the last albums from the, now unfortunately defunct, Military Museum of Southern New England, that used to be located in Danbury, CT. The albums are Ba-64 and M8 Greyhound armored cars, SdKfz 302 Goliath demolition vehicle and a 10cm Nebelwerfer 35 mortar.

Artillery pieces from four different countries

Here are four artillery pieces from four different countries and three continents. From Auckland, NZ comes the British RML 7″ 7-ton Coast Defense Gun displayed near Auckland War Memorial Museum, from Paris, France we’ve added the French 75mm Mle 1897 Field Gun located in Musée de l’Armée, from US here is the US 81mm M1 Mortar from now defunct Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, CT and finally from Canada – British Q.F. 40 mm Mk.1 Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun at Fort Rodd-Hill in Esquimalt.

Artillery update

Here are four different artillery pieces – the US 13″ Mortar from White Point Gardens in Charleston, SC, the British 1″ Nordenfelt gun photographed in the Tower of London, the 4.7″ Armstrong Coast Defense Gun currently residing in Newport, RI and the Nebelwerfer 41 15-cm photographed during an even in Richmond, CA.

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.

US Artillery from South Carolina Military Museum

Today’s artillery post is about US artillery photographed at the South Carolina Military Museum in Columbia, SC. The artillery pieces are a US 6-pdr Battalion Gun, a US 3″ Ordinance Rifle, a US 3″ Model 1905 Field Gun and a US 3″ M1897A2 Field Gun.

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.

Artillery from across the world

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.

Naval update

Today we’ll have a naval themed update from Battleship Cove in Massachusetts. While the main ships from there have already been posted to our gallery, here are four smaller items from there – Soviet Tarantula class missile boat USNS Hiddensee, Higgins LCM(3) landing craft, 570mm Mark13 Mod 1 Torpedo and a US 20mm/70 Oerlikon anti-aicraft gun.

Softskins

Continuing to dig through the archives of the un-posted stuff here are four albums done a number of years ago at MVCC Camp Delta. The albums are – M35 with M105 bed, Dodge WC19, GMC Canada 1942 India Pattern LRDG Truck and M55 .50 caliber Quad-mount.

Artillery from around the world

Posted four different artillery albums from four different countries. From Russia, posted the Tsar Pushka, photographed in Moscow’s Kremlin, from Belgium added the 75mm Cockerill-Nordenfeld Mle 1896 Field Gun seen in Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels, from Australia came the British QF 25pdr Mark II Field Gun photographed in a town of Cann River and finally from US added the 8″ Rifled Dahlgren Cannon on a Naval Mount that was found at Patriots Point Museum in Charleston SC.

Military Vehicles from Israeli Museums

Posted four different vehicles from Israeli museums – PzKpfw IVG, PT-76, M52 and AT-L light artillery prime-mover.

Naval update

Posted four different albums of naval subjects from all over the US. From Patriot’s Point in Charleston SC added the destroyer USS Laffey DD-724 and it’s 5″/38 Mark 38 Twin Dual-Purpose Mount. From Portland, OR posted the photos of Tugboat Portland and from Morro Bay, CA added the album for DSRV-2 Avalon.

Artillery update

Posted four different artillery pieces from four different locations – US 10″ Rodman Cannon on the Model 1861 Barbette Mount from West Black Point Battery in Fort Mason, San Francisco, Belgian 57mm Cockerill-Nordenfeld Mle 1888 Fortress Gun from Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels, Belgium, US 155mm M1 Howitzer from Fort Sill and Soviet 76mm Kurchevsky Model 1935 Recoilless Gun from Victory Park Museum in Moscow, Russia.