http://www.modelshipwrights.com/International Scale Ship Modeling Communityen-ushttp://www.modelshipwrights.com/rss/rss_4.xmlAhoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3849&mode=thread&order=0Ahoy mates, It's that time again, time for a little one-on-one with another MSW modeler, this month, we sit down with one our mates down under, Wink Grise, the focus of this month's "MSW Artist Profile" series!http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=1923Frank Portela (Clanky44) has treated us with a three part review series, all relating to the IJN Battlesip, Mikasa...check them out!http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=2368Ahoy mates! Model Art Magazine stopped by the news room to show off their upcoming Waterline Special #28. Check it out.http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3844Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3842&mode=thread&order=0Ahoy mates! MSW Associate Editor Frank Portela (clanky44) continues with his "First Look" reviews, in part two of his IJN Kongo series, with a closer look at each of the dedicated photo-etch upgrade sets!http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=3200Ahoy mates! Frank Portela (clanky44) gives us a detailed "First Look" review of Fujimi Models, 1/350 scale IJN Kongo!http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=3199Arrrgh! Run up the Jolly Roger with Osprey Publishing's upcoming release, Piracy: the complete history. As as the title says, this book will take you on a journey from the origins of piracy to today's modern day pirates. Check it out...or walk the plank!....http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3836Ahoy mates! Revell Models stopped by the news room to show off their re-release of the classic Higgins Industries PT-212. If you're a fan of torpedo boats or, like me, love the wartime boats of Higgins Industries, this vintage little kit needs to be on your list.....http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3835Ahoy mates! Osprey Publishing stopped by the news room to show off the first of their two new titles from the days of sail. Take a trip back in time with the birth of the US Navy with this New Vanguard book. Check it out.http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3834Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3833&mode=thread&order=0Ahoy Mates! This MSW Book review is of the third edition of "U-boot im Focus", the first regularly published U-boat magazine from Luftfahrtverlag-Start, Germany. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=3186Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3830&mode=thread&order=0MSW crew-mate Lars Juel Mosbaek shares this fine build of the IJN Light Cruiser, Tatsuta, in this MSW Full-Build Feature!http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2103Ahoy mates! Veteran Models stopped by the news room to show off their newest 1/350 IJN goodies. These are some very nice upgrades for any IJN ship. Check it out.http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3824Ahoy Shipmates!! This is a MSW first look review of VectorCut's SMS Wooden Deck in 1/350 scale. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=3194Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3822&mode=thread&order=0Crew-mate Erick Navas sends us a batch of images of a great diorama, a dockside harbor scene featuring the IJN Chuyo and Nagara! http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2121Ahoy Mates! As promised, today is the day that we announce the winner of the MSW "No Guns Allowed" Campaign Best in Show award, as voted by YOU, the membership! We received 24 total votes in all in the voting period (1 week), and with a total of 1o individual votes, the winner of this event is Rui Matos (skipper), with his Seals Models, Icebreaker Shirase in 1/700 scale. Rui wins his choice of any Un-armed kit from the entire BattleFleet Models Catalog, as sponsored by Harry Abbott, from BFM. Great Job, Rui, congratulations, and enjoy the victory! ....http://www.modelshipwrights.com/http://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/19867This is a MSW’s first look review of LionRoar’s new IJN WWII Sand Bags in 1/700 scale. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=3193Ahoy mates! RB Productions stopped by the news room to show off their new photo etch bending accessories. Check it out.http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3818Ahoy mates! Pit-Road stopped by the news room today to show off their two new Nimitz class carrier releases. Check it out.http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3817Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3816&mode=thread&order=0Ahoy mates! Keeping in continuance with our new, "MSW Community Build Contest" we will also be running a similar build contest between all of our MSW staff! The contest will have the same basic set of rules and regulations, with one small twist....this contest will be judged by YOU, the members only club of MSW! So c'mon, mates, sign up for the "Community Build Contest" and build a model along with us! ....http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2118Ahoy mates! Nautilus Models stopped by the news room to show off their new 1/72 Gato conversion set. This is a real beauty! Check it out.http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3813Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3812&mode=thread&order=0A short while back, due to some major conflicts with the server software, we had to disable the NRC (Network Resource Center) area of KitMaker, which of course, was the mainline to submitting content to the network. Captain Starkweather has re-vamped and re-worked the "Submissions Page" at MSW, and submitting content to the site is now easier than ever! So if you have a kit, book, or a tool you would like to wriet a review on, or a bunch of models that you would like to have featured in an "On Display" photo feature, or if you want to put the efforts into a full blown feature article, getting it to us is as easy as following the link below!....http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Submitting&file=indexAhoy mates! Gold Medal Models stopped by the news room to show of their upcoming photo etch set for Trumpeter's 1/350 San Francisco. They have put in everything but the kitchen sink! Check it out.http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3806Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3805&mode=thread&order=0Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3800&mode=thread&order=0Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3797&mode=thread&order=0Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3795&mode=thread&order=0MSW Crew-mate Jacob Walker (redneck) shares a fine gallery of images of his build of the IJN carrier Zuikaku, in the MSW Photo Feature!http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2112Ahoy mates! News from the US Navy. If you can get down to Wilmington, North Carolina this Saturday, the USN will be commissioning the new USS North Carolina SSN 777. To read more about this impressive new attack sub, follow the link below.http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3791Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3790&mode=&order=0MSW crew-mate Raul Guzman Jr. treats us to something decidedly different, although definitely related, to our ship-building genre, with this magnificent diorama in this MSW Photo Feature!http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2086Ahoy mates! With the closing of the MSW "No Guns Allowed" campaign, we now have to choose the "Best in Show" award, sponsored by Battlefleet Models, which is YOUR choice of an non-armed kit from Harry's catalog (and a fantastic prize, this is...thanks Harry!) So with that said, take a moment, and place your vote...just follow the link, look over the entry's, and make your choice!! Good luck to all entrants!!! ....http://www.modelshipwrights.com/http://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/19867Ahoy mates, In many parts of the world, it's May 1st, 2008, and on this day begins the official one month sign-up period for our MSW Community Build Contest! Please use this thread to sign up now, and list your name, call-sign, which category you will be building in, and what you're planning on building, and then get planning! All KitMaker members are invited to join in, and if you know modelers who aren't members, please invite them to join KitMaker, MSW, and our contest!! Let's get ready to roll, mates, full speed ahead!!!....http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2081Ahoy mates! This just in from our overseas news room. Tamiya is announcing a new 1/700 IJN Carrier Set. Check it out!http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3786Ahoy mates! Tamiya stopped by the news room with the long awaited detailed photo of their new 1/350 Naval Figures.http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3785Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3784&mode=&order=0Ahoy mates, Take a look at this great new acrylic paint set from LIFECOLOR Acrylic Hobby Colors, specifically with the Italian Navy enthusiast in mind!http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3783Ahoy Shipmates! Thought you might like to program the DVR or Tivo to catch this tonight on PBS. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/supership/?campaign=pbshomefeatures_3_novabrsinkingthesupership_2008-04-29Ahoy mates! Cyber-Hobby.com stops by the news room to show off their new photo etch set for the new Dragon 1/350 USS Buchanan. This is a beautiful set with an added gem that you need to see to believe.http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3780Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3778&mode=thread&order=0Ahoy Mates, This time on MSW's Naval Tecnology, we take a look at the German Navy and it's Type 123 Brandenburg Class frigates!http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3776Ahoy mates! Flyhawk Photoetched stopped by the news room to show of their upcoming 1/700 USS Missouri photo etch set. Check it out!http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3775Ahoy Shipmates! Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3774&mode=thread&order=0Ahoy Mates! Displaying and photographing your models can be a challenging area of the hobby...our new MSW Opinion Poll asks quite simply, "Would you like to see more SBS (Step-by-Step) "How-to's" Features here at MSW on the subject? Please take a moment and voice YOUR opinion!....http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-Polls&file=index&pollID=304Crew-mate Rob Kernaghan shares a fine build of the USS California in this MSW "On Display"! http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2102