Good Morning Shipwrights. It's Monday, January 7, 2008.
I hope that everyone had a good weekend.

"Forgotten Sisters" Campaign
Ahoy mates! The fist campaign of the year has cranked up. We already have some build blogs on the site. Have you started yours? Surf on over and take a look.
Forgotten Sisters

Navy Tech – Osprey Class Coastal Minehunter
Mark Smith (Gunny) brings us another installment of "MSW's Naval Technology Series", this time we focus upon the United States Navy and the Osprey Class Coastal Minehunter!
Osprey Class Coastal Minehunter

MSW Naval Trivia Contest
Bruce Miller’s (grayghost666) MSW Naval Trivia Contest is still going. Rules are simple, be the first to answer the question and you get to ask the next one. Please surf on over and join the fun!
MSW Naval Trivia Contest.

Model on Display - IJN Seaplane Tender Akitsushima
Frank Portela (Clanky44) sends us a gallery of fine images for this new "Model on Display", his build, of the IJN Seaplane Tender, Akitsushima.
IJN Seaplane Tender Akitsushima

Ko-hyoteki Class Midget Submarine, Pearl Harbor
Peter Vill (PeteV) shares with us a gallery of images of one of his latest builds, FineMolds 1/72 scale, Ko-hyoteki Class Midget Submarine, Pearl Harbor.
Ko-hyoteki Class Midget Submarine, Pearl Harbor

MSW Sports
Ahoy mates! With the NFL playoff season started, I figured it was time to start up the sports news again. So, here we go.

NFC Wildcard Games
After a late Washington rally, D.J. Hackett and his Seahawks pulled away to beat the Redskins 35-14 Saturday in Seattle. The Seahawks will play at Green Bay Jan. 12.

The Giants improved to 8-1 away from home this season with a dominating 24-14 victory over the Buccaneers. Eli Manning threw for 185 yards with two TDs and no INTs.

AFC Wildcard Games
Maurice Jones-Drew helped Jacksonville off to a fast start, but the Jaguars needed some late-game heroics to overcome Pittsburgh 31-29 at Heinz Field.

The Chargers came to life in the second half and defeated the Tennessee Titans 17-6 in an AFC wild-card game. It was San Diego's first playoff win since January 1995.

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

Hi Guys,

Finished my Churchill Mk VII, which no one bothered to look at lol, lol, and finished another RM figure for the LCM. Slow weekend, Tried out some of the Archer Rank Transfers which worked quite well but really wasn't in a modelling mood, too much clutter around, need to tidy up the working space.

Unboxed a lot of the other figures for the boats though, which remminded me just how much I have to do lol, lol,

Cheers

Al

I finally got answers to my painting questions on my 48th scale British Valetine tank. So things have proceeded fairly well in that regard. I am awaiting ruling on my substitue entry for the Forgotten sisters campaign. Slowly but surely I am getting Fritz trained to quit pissing in house and to curb his biting/nipping. Of coure with potty training, who is training who? I spend more time outside and get up earlier than I used to (HA_HA_HA) Lucky weather this weekend was perfect and I just opened up the back door and he ran in and out for hours.

I started work on my Schlewig-Holstein for the Forgotten Sisters Campaign. Check it out here Build Blog



Otherwise I took some pictures of the horses and a few others around the house.

Football,more football and then some more football

Got to do a little work on my Gatling. The mast is installed and I've stated adding the railings.

Go Giants!! Boy, it would be sweet to go into Big D and knock the hated Cowboys off!

No modeling at the Loup household. Friday I put in some overtime at work and then spent the rest of the day cleaning up my old truck. Saturday we had an appointment with the Louisiana Family Recovery Corps. The help out with people affected by the hurricanes, whether it be financially, emotionally or in need of a new home.. We qualified to have our house note paid this month, they are purchasing us a new stove and a new full size bed for Ian. Sunday was spent working around the house.

Gator

Still having to make some upgrades in my computer after the disk crash issue...
No image editing software at this point, so... no photos updates!

I am currently working on my "No Guns Allowed Campaign" entry - Antarctic Observation Ship Shirase (opted to start something while there's no restock of Soya's PE set).

Photo update asap

Skipper

hello Kenny,
this week/weekend,found me still working on the lifeboat.i also just about got 2 reviews done.1 is on the lifeboat and the other is on the Chinese destroyer.just a few twicks and off to Mark. Sunday at 0001 zulu started my build for the Forgotten Sister's campaign. after 6 months of research for it, i have to give it my best guess on the colors.
Rui, glad to see you back, i for one have missed your post's and reply's here.
Kenny, glad every thing is going well for you family.
Steve, i am glad that the pup is getting the hang of outside "potty",the big question is who is training who.
Jim,i hope all is well with your wife,i am keeping her and you in my prayers.
i am hoping to post some pic's of my builds soon,Miss Mary has been fighting the flu for the past 2 weeks.
Cheers to all,
Bruce