Celebration of Flight, in Miniature

About 2,500 scale models were on display at the Northwest Scale Modelers Show, which is known as the largest model show in the Northwest.

Meg Godlewski

Friday, February 24, 2023 at 09:18 AM ET

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Airplanes, cars, boats, rockets, and spaceships, along with movie monsters and anime figures were on display at the annual Northwest Scale Modelers Show. [Credit: Meg Godlewski]

Key Takeaways:

The Museum of Flight in Seattle hosted the annual Northwest Scale Modelers Show, the largest event of its kind in the Northwest.
Approximately 2,500 diverse scale models were on display, ranging from airplanes and cars to spaceships and movie monsters, with scales from 1:72 to microscopic.
The event included interactive elements such as live model assembly, Q&A sessions with builders, and demonstrations on painting, detailing, and diorama building techniques.

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The number of airplanes at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington increased significantly the weekend of February 18-19 as the facility hosted the annual Northwest Scale Modelers Show.

Northwest Scale Modelers Show [Credit: Meg Godlewski]

Approximately 2,500 scale models were on display at the event, which is known as the largest model show in the Northwest.

Airplanes, cars, boats, rockets, and spaceships, along with movie monsters and anime figures were on display. The display scales ranged from 1:72 to microscopic, where a dime was used to provide perspective.

Starfleet and the U.S. Navy were particularly well represented at this year’s show.

Model builder Dan Carey, who has several models already on display at the Museum assembled a model on-site and answered questions. The event is part workshop and seminar. Throughout the weekend, there were demonstrations on technique painting and detail and even on building dioramas to display the models.