Another ship kit from Flyhawk model and in two versions. This one is of the first the ship that fired America's first shot in the Second World War, the Wickes class destroyer USS Ward.

Spanish for The Holy Mary of the Immaculate Conception the Santa María, was the largest of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first voyage and thus, one of the most famous ship names in naval history. What Zvezda is decribing as a 'new tool' kit is coming this spring.

R. Michael Payne is an Australian artist who specializes in maritime art featuring submarine subjects. His attention to detail of people, machines and nature is truely wonderful. His site has been up since May, 2014.

Takao was the lead vessel of her class and they were the largest and more modern cruisers in the Japanese fleet. Her sister ships were Atago, Maya and Chōkai.This re-release of their previous Takao kit now comes with a dedicated photo-etch set.

One of the most unusual looking warships of the steam age, the Dupuy de Lôme is often considered to be the world's first armoured cruiser. This kit is being made with cooperation from U-boat Laboratorium using 3D modeling and CNC machines with photoetch.

L'Arsenal has released new small scale resin vehicles sets. They include boats, cars/trucks and aircraft.

Alliance Modelworks has released a number of items this month from tools to detail sets. Here's a run down of what they are.

Lion Roar's big PT-Boat detail set will be re-released this May with improvements. This set is meant to be used with Italeri's PT-596 kit (No. 5602).

Announced for a July 2015 release and made from new tooling. The USS Tennessee was the lead ship of her class of battleship and saw action from the day of Pearl Harbor in 1941 to her final assignment of the war, to cover the landing of occupation troops at Wakayama, Japan for September 1945

New from Micro Mark, small brushes to apply weathering. Add just the right amount of material to your to show your vessels' have seen time at sea.

Tetra released several new products for 1/350 and 1/700 scale at the end of January. They range from safety railings for contemporary ships to a wooden flight deck of the IJN Akagi.

From the Royal Navy News website:

Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster sailed from her home in Portsmouth on Saturday 21 March for a routine nine-month Atlantic patrol tasking, waved off by hundreds of well-wishing friends and family.

Coming this month, Kagero's latest 3D publication is of the USS North Carolina. Lead ship of North Carolina-class battleships and the fourth warship in the U.S. Navy to be named in honor of the State of North Carolina.

From the 1960's animated TV series Captain Fathom comes a kit of his submarine, the Argonaut. Now who out there remembers Captain Fathom along with Clutch Cargo or Space Angel?

Two new PE sets for modern Royal Navy vessels from Atlantic Models. One is of railings and ladders and the other is of watertight doors.

Coming soon from Niko Model, 1/700 waterline kit of an H-class destroyer under the nameHMS Hardy. The H-class destroyers was a refinement to the G-class with twenty-four destroyers of both made for the Royal Navy (two later transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and one to the Polish Navy) launched in 1935–1939. They served in World War II and sixteen were lost in action.

Released last month, a set of US Navy anchors that can be used for almost anything in your fleet. From battleships to aircraft carriers to destroyers.

Last December we announced a new kit of the HMS Naiad was coming. It's now available and we have images of that coming kit and it looks like it's a real jewel.

Built in Italy during the mid 30's for the Polish Ocean Lines and named after Stefan Batory, the famous sixteenth-Century king of Poland, the luxury liner Batory was pressed into wartime service during the Second World War as an attack-transport. She subsequently became the pride of the Polish Ocean Lines merchant fleet and the entire Polish navy.

3 new wood deck sets are now available from Artwox Models. They include a flight deck for Merit's CV-5 Yorktown, Trumpeter's HMS Zulu and Pit-Road's Japanese Navy Transport.

4 New publications on vessels from WWII. They include cruisers from the US Navy and a Japanes Imperial Navy battleship.

The new L'Arsenal site is up with new products announced. Two new naval subjects (plus an Aerospace one) are listed on site.

What would become known to the West as the Foxtrot class was a class of diesel-electric patrol submarines that were built in the Soviet Union. The Soviet designation of this class was Project 641. An actual 641 submarine was used in the filming of recent Jude Law film, Black Sea.

New PE Sets in two scales of flotation baskets of the post WWII era. Perfect for those who want to model US carriers of the 1950's and 60's.

The latest from Niko Models is what looks to be a beautifully done waterline kit of the US Navy cruiser USS Boise in her 1942 configuration. A Brooklyn class light cruiser, she served in both Pacific and European theaters of the Second World War.

This new series, Naval Staff Histories of the Second World War, aims to make available these indispensable studies of the key operations of the war. These 3 hardback books will be available this spring.

X-Craft was a Midget Submarine developed by the British Royal Navy for Special Warfare and Merit introduces a new kit in 'big PT-Boat' scale!

This June Trumpeter plans to issue variations on two previously released battleship kits.

RC Subs has produced more PE details for u-boat kits from Revell and ICM in 1/72 and 1/144. Also new are ship railings.

The Ship Modeler's Review List Online has returned! After an absence to implement system upgrades, the Review List (presently at version 6.9.2-3) is back online.

Issue number 19 covers the IJN aircraft carrier Shokaku, the Disaster at Honda Point, the debut of the FNFL, the rebels of the Storojevoï - the real story of Red October and much more.

For your Battle of the Atlantic vessels, 2 new camouflage color sets in the 'Western Approaches' schemes are now available.

This is the autobiography of Jūzõ Mori, a torpedo bomber pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. Never before translated into English, this book gives a vivid depiction of what it was like to fly and fight for the IJN.

Back in November we mentioned Trumpeter's HMS Valiant kit was on its way. Now we have a bit more detail on this kit.

Tenryu and her sister ship Tatsuta were Japanese light cruisers commissioned just after the First World War and used in WWII. Both fought at Wake island, off Guadalcanal, and around the waters of New Guinea. Tenryu was sunk by the submarine USS Albacore in late 1942 and Tatsua by the submarine USS Sand Lance in 1944.

Artwox is releasing several new wood deck products this month in several scales for ship ranging from aircraft carriers to destroyers.

Revell has announced a new version of its Type IXC boat in the IXC/40 fitting with a snorkel.

Combrig has released 3 kits of Grozyashchiy Class gunboats, the first armored gunboats for the Russian Imperial Navy - the Grozyashchiy, Otvazhnyj and Gremyashchiy.

CMK has produced interior sections for Revell's Type IX U-boat kit and now they are producing figures to crew them.

This month, Revell is releasing a kit of Imperial Russia's first 'Dreadnought' type battleship.

Pontos has released a 'Detail-Up' set for Revell's Type VIIC U-Boat kit (No. 05015).

With big scale carrier kits you need big scale aircraft (well, relatively big for ship modeling scales). Assembled and pre-painted aircraft packs are Merit's newest offerings.

A re-release of figures sets in 'on patrol' poses for your large scale torpedo boats.

New from SSN Modellbau, two styles of photo etch gangways for your dockside dioramas.

Atlantic Models has announced the release of photo-etched detail sets for the old Frog/ Novo kit of HMS Exeter in 1/500 scale and the Frog/ Novo/ Eastern Express kit of HMS Tiger/Lion/Blake in 1/415 scale.

Aoshima had an earlier kit (No. 509) of the Chiyoda as she was as a seaplane tender in her early life, a special submarine tender (No. 549) and now is offering her as she was after her reconstruction to a light carrier.

Artwox has announced their planned products for 2015. No images are available yet but here's their list items for 1/350 and 1/700 scales.

This month Fujimi is releasing 3 full hull kits of the Imperial Japanese aircraft carriers, Hiryu, Soryu and Akagi. I made some tweaks to the original posting due to previous translation issues with the Fujimi site description of the kits.

We have some exciting news to share with you all. Todd Michalak, whom many of you know for his outstanding work on KitMaker, Modeler's Social Club, and elsewhere, has agreed to take on the duty of Editor-in-Chief of Model Shipwrights! Speaking for myself and Darren Baker, we are very happy to have Todd aboard and helping out with the site.

The latest sets for diorama fans contains an assortment of 30 vehicles found in the USA in the late 30's and German staff cars from WWII.