Good Morning Shipwrights. It's Monday, December 3, 2007.
I hope that everyone had a nice weekend.

The Great White Fleet Installment 179 and 180
Sean Ford (Fordboy) brings us the latest in his Great White Fleet saga. In Installment 179, we tag along with the USS Pueblo as she gears up for World War I
The Great White Fleet Installment 179
The Great White Fleet Installment 180

Production Photos ~ Revell Germany Bismarck
Kenny Loup (Gator) gives us a look at the production sprues of Revell Germany’s new 1/350 Bismarck.
Bismarck Sprue Photos.

Navy Tech - Cavour Aircraft Carrier, Italy
Mark Smith (Gunny) brings us the latest in MSW’s Navy Tech series, “The Italian Aircraft Carrier Cavor.”
The Italian Aircraft Carrier Cavor

From the Expanded Sports Desk
Let’s take a look at this weekend in college football.
In the top 5…
LSU regains focus, stops Tennessee to win SEC title, 21-14.
No. 9 Oklahoma stomps No. 1 Missouri to win Big 12 title, 38-17.
Pitt throws curveball at BCS with win over No. 2 WVU, 13-9
Virginia Tech Hokies ride Glennon's arm, Taylor's legs to ACC crown over Boston College, 30-16

Campbell spurs Navy Middies to lopsided win over Army Cadets, 38-3.

The Bowl Championship Series shapes up like this:
Rose Bowl
January 1, 2008
USC vs. Illinois

Sugar Bowl
January 1, 2008
Hawaii vs. Georgia

Fiesta Bowl
January 2, 2008
Oklahoma vs. West Virginia

Orange Bowl
January 3, 2008
Kansas vs. Virginia Tech

National Championship Game
January 7, 2008
Ohio State vs. LSU

Crewmate Sound Off
Now is the time in which you can share your news and views. Give us the poop on you latest builds and future projects. Share with us your weekend adventures. We all what to know what you did this weekend. So, sound off mates!

That's all for now from the news desk. Remember, if you can't get to your bench and build, at least you can talk about it.

Gator

Well, I finally finished my shed. It was such a pain, but it is now done. Did some work on the chicken pen and that should be done next weekend. Pretty much all of my free time as of late is getting our house ready for visitors and no time building.

Was surprised to see the final BCS layout, of course not everyone is happy. It is hard to make every team happy when this was such a crazy year in College football.

I am a little disappointed at the early start of the Bulls in the NBA. They had such a good potential season, but thus far have fallen flat.

Seems like a good listing of new kits coming up and lots of good possible builds out there.

Hi Guys,

Well my wife finally made it over from China after a long saga, and I pretty much finished my dozer.



so I'm a very happy bunny.

Cheers

Al

Ahoy Kenny

I got some more bench time working on my E-Boat.

I keep saying it but I aint to far from putting on some paint.

I picked up the necessary stuff to spray all the individual parts yesterday.

Worked on this trick to have her both waterline plus full hull on a stand. Its hard to explain but I will get some pictures up later this week.

Cheers


Sean

hello Kenny,
This weekend got some work done on my Grant for the Under New Management Campaign.i ordered the paints for my Lifeboat for the No Guns Allowed Campaign.went to the doc this monday,and now i have a flex cast on my shoulder/arm.i can now paint the grant and get it done.yeah.next monday the cast on my left leg gets replaced with a flex cast,thenit is time to start physcial terapey.yeah.
all in all a very good weekend here,new snow in the mountains,got my unlimited ski pass,and hopefully will not break anything this year.
so LSU is going to the BIG game,they will WIN 99-0.
Alan, i love the Dozer.it looks great.
Jim,just a question,did the cickens fly the old coop.
Cheers,
Bruce

Got a little more work done on the Stuka and made more repairs to the OIF dio and Zuikaku.

Also got the shop cleaned up more, and got the first of about 6 butcher blocks finished.

Damn...I had this thing all written and my palm hit some button that erased it....so here goes again...laid paint on my Black Widow. need to buff it out a bit lay decals do a final assembly. As I feared, I have very limited interest in finishing it. Since I started it I totally built and completed a 1200 scale Scharnhorst. I also have assembled a 35th scale Bradley with interior. I have it all done except exterior paint and weathering and attatching all the do-dads like tools and crew items to outside. Airplanes just have lost their appeal to me. Funny between 10 and 20 years ago they are just about all I everbult. But I am resolved on getting it and the Bradley completed before the holidays when I go and pick up Fritz. I have been getting daily reports on him, and after 2 days I may may have a fight on my hands trying to bring him home. Ain't puppies grand !!!!!!

Oh and GO SEC!!!!!!!!!!!!! The best conference!!! LSU gonna keep our tradition alive. But watch out, BAMA is rising we beat Arkansas who beat LSU we also beat Tenn who beat Georgia, but we lost to Georgia....it gets very convulooted (?) in our conference doesn't it,

Alan...love the dozer. Which chassis is it built on?

And everyone beat Ole' Miss!

Gator