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.

Combrig has two new kits in development to add to their growing line of the Czar's navy. Both of these ladies were built just before the 20th Century began and met their fate during he Russo-Japanese war.

Several New PE and metal sets announced for December from Big Blue Boy Models are now available. All sets are for modern naval ships

Coming soon, a resin kit of the US Navy's first submarine.

Fearless was the first purpose built LPD used by the Royal Navy, launched in 1963 and commissioned in 1965. She served in the Falklands Islands War and even had a roll in a James Bond film.

Two new resin accessories sets for your dock settings.

New for 2015, a Patrol Craft Fast (PCF), also known as a "Swift Boat', in a Limited Edition resin kit from Masterpiece Models.

An early version of the Kaga when she sported 3 flight decks is one of Fujimi’s latest releases.

Coming later this month, a kit of a cruiser that served as fast troop transport and a carrier of the Kaiten suicide submarines.

New small scale resin vehicles from Niko for populating your IJN transports or dock dioramas.

Manufactured before US's direct involvement in the Second World War, these vehicles were widely use by the allies and many were captured by German forces ended up being used in service for the Wehrmacht.

A ship named Bismarck was one of the Second World War's best known stories but more that 40 years earlier, another Bismark sailed the seas.

Two new wood deck sets from Artwox Model for Academy's DKM Tirptiz (No.BA903) and Trumpeter's USS New York BB-34 (05339) are almost here.

The buzz for this kit has been around since early 2012 with images of if coming out every few months. Now Wolfpack has a January 2015 release date listed on their website.

Fujimi is releasing this month a full-hull Kongo in her 1941 configuration. Kongo started life as a battlecruiser and ended it as a battleship.

Newest publications from Model Art Magazines covering IJN Battleships. Includes reference photographs, illustrations, diagrams and drawings.

Hasegawa is releasing two Special Edition versions kits that had been offered as waterline kits previously but now as full-hull subjects.

Trumpeter has given April as the approximate release month for their first 2015 new naval products.

It's been some time since we reported on any products from MT Miniatures so we'd thought we start again. They specialize in 1/700 and 1/1250 waterline kits for those who think 1/200 is just showboating (couldn't resist). This past November, their latest was a waterline kit labeled as the HMS Conqueror, a Churchill Class Submarine.

Kiyokawa Maru was a seaplane tender in the Imperial Japanese Navy, built at Kawasaki's Kōbe Shipyard. Launched in December 1936 as a merchant vessel for the Kawasaki Kisen K. K. Line. On 28 September 1941 she was refitted as a seaplane tender after being requisitioned by the IJN for the war effort.

Micro-Mir has released a kit of America's first 'boomer' submarine class to join their current fleet of 1/350 boats.

There was much hope this would had been released last year and now listed as coming this year from Hobby Boss, the Ka-27 Naval Helicopter. Developed for the Soviet Navy, and currently in service in various countries including Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, People's Republic of China, Republic of South Korea and India.

Two sets for creating dry dock dioramas that include PE cranes. One is listed as 'basic' set and the other as 'ultimate'.

White Ensign Models is being purchased by Tom's Model Works, according to a notice on the White Ensign website.

The Type XVII U-boats were small coastal submarines used for research to test Hellmuth Walter's high test peroxide propulsion system, which offered a combination of air-independent propulsion and high submerged speeds.

The last new set from Larsenal in 2014. No, they don't float but you can use them for your Kriegsmarine dioramas.

New decals in 1/350 and 1/700 for United States Navy yard boats offered from Battlefleet and produced by Back-Aft Models.

HMS Cleopatra (F28) was a Leander-class frigate (Gun variant) of the Royal Navy. The Leander-class, or Type 12I frigates, comprised twenty-six vessels in several variants. They were among the most numerous and longest serving classes of frigate in the Royal Navy's modern history. Cleopatra herself was in service from 1966 to 1992.

More than a year ago a 'New Products' article here stated that Zvezda was releasing a kit of the Soviet battleship and it was expected in early 2014. It was never released but may be coming for 2015.

A new resin kit for one of the newest ships for the Royal Danish Navy (RDN) and reportedly has been the most successful counter-piracy warship in the Gulf of Aden, capturing 88 out of the 250 pirates detained in those operations.

A German based hobby supplier we had not yet reported on here, SSN Modellbau, is releasing two new amphibious landing craft.

For your tiny amphibious invasion forces, a new set of LCM3 landing craft are to be soon available.

New PE sets are becoming available for Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carriers and Royal Navy warships.

Latest addition to the giant Mulberry Harbor puzzle is the Shore ramp that was needed to make a link between the floating causeways and the beach, so the vehicles could disembark safely.

Airfix's HMS Daring Type 45 Destroyer kit (No.12203) can get a work over with Big Blue Boy's new detail set.

Flyhawk had previously released a kit of the First World War Imperial German battle cruiser Lutzow and now is planning on re-releasing that kit with a torpedo boat kit bonus.

HMS Naiad was a Dido class light cruiser that served with the North Atlantic convoys and in the Mediterranean with Malta bound convoys, fighting off axis air attacks. On March 11th, 1942 she was sunk by the U-565, south of Crete.

I just stumbled across this today at the Merit site and states its availability as 'NOW' and is reported to be of 'new tooling'. The first ship in the 3 ship Yorktown class of fleet carriers, Yorktown was built from lessons learned from the smaller Ranger class and converted from cruiser Lexington class ships.