IPMS Silicon Valley Scale Modelers

08/26/2026

Here's the second part of the photos from the Swiss Air Force Museum in Dubendorf - aircraft and equipment after WWII. As always the links to the walkarounds are under each photo.

These are and thousands more galleries can be found at the top level of the SVSM gallery:
https://www.svsmgallery.com/Top-level

08/24/2026

Last set of the photos from the summer's European trip. These are from the most unusual (by subject) museum of the entire trip - Swiss Air Force Museum in Dubendorf. Here's the first part of the photos - aircraft and engines from between pre-WWI to WWII era. As always the links to the walkarounds are under each photo.

These are and thousands more galleries can be found at the top level of the SVSM gallery:
https://www.svsmgallery.com/Top-level

08/20/2026

Second half of the photos from the National Museum of USAF - these are post 1946 subjects. As always the links to the walkarounds are under each photo.

These are and thousands more galleries can be found at the top level of the SVSM gallery:
https://www.svsmgallery.com/Top-level

08/17/2026

From the trip to the IPMS USA Nationals, another museum that we visited was The National Museum of the USAF. Here's the first part of the photos - aircraft, engines and GSE from before 1946. As always the links to the walkarounds are under each photo.

These are and thousands more galleries can be found at the top level of the SVSM gallery:
https://www.svsmgallery.com/Top-level

08/14/2026

From the trip to the IPMS USA Nationals in Fort Wayne, Indiana here's the walkarounds from The Henry Ford Museum of American Excellence in Dearborne, MI. Links to the individual Walkarounds are under each photo.

As always thousands of albums are available from the top of the gallery
https://www.svsmgallery.com/Top-level/Walkarounds

08/10/2026

Here are photos of (almost) all competition models at the IPMS USA 2026 National convention. If your model didn't make it, it either was not there, or it came out too blurry to post, sorry about that.
Here are the photos, enjoy. The header photos are the best of's the categories.
https://www.svsmgallery.com/Top-level/Contests/IPMS-USA-Nationals-2026-Fort-Wayne-IN
Didn't make it to the Tiger Meet area as my phone was down to 5% battery by the time I was done with the contest photos 🙂.

Military and civilian vehicle walkarounds for modelers

07/29/2026

Next set of photos from the European trip - Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart. Even if you're not into cars, this is an amazing museum worth visiting, a true car cathedral... As usual links to the individual walkarounds are under each photo

These and thousands more albums are accessible from the top level of the gallery
https://www.svsmgallery.com/Top-level

07/15/2026

Here's the next set of photos from the Europe trip. This is the aircraft part of the Technic Museum Sinsheim in Germany.

As always thousands of Walkaround albums are available from the top of the gallery
https://www.svsmgallery.com/Top-level

07/11/2026

Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen

05/26/2026

Photos of almost all models from last weekend's IPMS Fresno Contest

Military and civilian vehicle walkarounds for modelers