The portable, temporary harbors developed by the British in World War II to facilitate rapid offloading of cargo onto the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy, the 'Mulberrys' made the invasion of continental Europe possible. L'Arsenal now adds a new component to their existing Mulberry sets.

First mentioned in an earlier article, Trumpeter has a now announced a release date and suggested retail price for their upcoming big HMS Nelson.

In September we reported that Trumpeter was releasing a kit of the BB-45 USS Colorado for 2015. Now images are available of that forthcoming kit.

Last month we announced Meng's first ship model kit, the steamer Taiping. Now Meng has released more images of that kit.

3 new sets of 1/350 trucks for use with dock diorama settings or as cargo on ship.

Golden Hind or (Golden Hinde) was an English galleon best known for her circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. Zvezda is offering a kit of this historic vessel in 1/350 as a snap-together kit - a chance for some of you old sea dogs to maybe recruit some young swabs to the hobby of model ship building.

For those who want to arm their Soviet/Russian boomers, there's a new set of 1/350 resin missiles for your silos.

The first combat submarine to sink a warship, the CSS Hunley is coming as a 1/35 kit planned by Micro-Mir.

Trumpeter announces more new naval items for 2015.

A follow up to their #6 Special, more details of the mighty Bismark.

Trumpeter has announced on their website products for 2015. Here are the marine oriented ones so far listed.

For updating your early war USN vessels, Niko Models has released a 5 piece set of the 'Chicago Pianos'.

A new kit by Combrig is in the works. This time an Imperial Russian gunboat that fought in Russia's war with Japan.

Eduard has released 3 new sets for dressing up Revell's PBY-5A Catalina (Kit No 04507).

A new waterline kit of the Royal Navy's most active early war carrier.

Profile Morskie has 6 new paper information books with complete paper plans included.

The French marine research vessel that assisted in the discovery in the wreck of the Titanic is now available from Revell of Germany.

The motor vehicle company Autocar produced their first car in 1900 that was a single cylinder chain drive runabout. About 27 were made. During the Second World War they had produced 50,000 trucks. Now L'Arsenal has made the heavy haulers them available for your 1/350 transports

Another waterline kit is in the works from Niko Models, this time an H-class British destroyer.

Pontos has released a detail set for Revell's 1/350 Bismark kit (No 05040) that includes all the that we've come to expect from Pontos sets.

In March of this year, Felix Bustelo filed a report of Merit's Late Elco 80' PT-Boat. Now Merit is offering an earlier version of that same craft.

A FREMM (European multipurpose frigate or in French - Frégate européenne multi-mission or in Italian - Fregata europea multi-missione) is a class of frigate designed by DCNS/Armaris and Fincantieri for the navies of France and Italy. Gwylan Models is now accepting pre-orders for a kit of this ship.

The sinking of the steamer Taiping in 1949 shocked people in Mainland China. In the midst of the Chinese Civil War, people were fleeing from China to Taiwan. The Taiping was carrying perhaps over twice her rated capacity in passengers on her voyage when she collided with another vessel, causing the loss of 1,500 souls. The story is the subject of a new John Woo film, The Crossing.

Dragon has earlier offered 1/350 scale kits of the Z31, Z38 and Z39 destroyers, and the trio is now being joined by their sister, Z32.

Combrig Models has released two 1/72 naval gun sets this month -the 203mm and 102mm Obukhov guns used on WWI Imperial Russian Naval ships.

In September, we announced this forthcoming kit. Now new images of the kit itself are available.

Another 'D-Day Series- Normandy 1944/2014' limited edition kit from Italeri to join their LCVP release. This landing craft was used extensively by US and British navies during the Second World War to transport wheeled vehicles, lightweight armour and materials from ship to shore

Adding to their line of Queen Elizabeth Class of battleships, Trumpeter has announced a 1939 variant for the HMS Valiant. This kit is listed as to be available in March 2015.

The Kamikawa Maru was one of nine merchant ships converted into seaplane carriers between 1937 and 1942. Each tender was equipped with two catapults on their aft well deck and carried eight aircraft. The ships were equipped on their bow and stern with single 6in guns and AA guns, 2 13.2mm, by their bridges.

Aoshima is updating their Kongo kit as a ‘Retake’ series release, slated for January 2015.

A complete vignette of a carrier deck depicting a modern carrier on a training cruise, centered around a T-45 Goshwawk.

A release of a kit labeled as the latest of the JMSDF Akizuki-class destroyers, the DD-118 “Fuyuzuki”, commissioned into service this past March.

4 new WWII combat ship drawing sets have been released for the IJN aircraft carrier Hiryu, IJN seaplane tender Nisshin, heavy cruiser HMS Kent and light cruiser USS Helena.

A modern version of 'The Big J', America's most decorated battleship with 19 battle stars, in a limited edition release.

Flagship Models has been the 'go to' place for Civil War naval kits and now they've added a new kit to their catalog of an early Confederate torpedo boat design.

Showcase Models Australia has announced the follow-up to their HMAS Collins class submarine kit. The following text is straight from their Facebook page:

Italeri tweaks their 1/35 Vosper kit to represent a craft from one of the Second World War's great raids.

In June we profiled an 8.8cm gun kit eduard had released and interest was expressed for a 10.5cm gun -and now it's here!

For those who prefer their submarine models less then a yard long, RCSubs has announced a 1/144 PE set for Revell's Type VIIC/41 u-boat (kit no. 5100).

"The pursuit and sinking of the Bismarck will remain one of the great sea-stories of all time, worthy to take its place with Salamis, Lepanto, the Armada, Trafalgar, Tsushima, Jutland, Midway, the Coral Sea."

Sir Ludovic Kennedy

RCSubs has new photo etch offerings for the Revell Type VIIC and VIIC/41 U-Boat kits (Nos.5015 and 5045). There's even a set for a VIID conversion.

Niko has added another fine waterline destroyer kit to their existing fleet. HMS Daring was 'D' class destroyer, launched on 7 April 1932. The ship was initially assigned to the 1st Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean and made a brief deployment to the Persian Gulf and Red Sea in September–October 1933.

In September we reported on the release of the 'late' production "Ka-Mi" amphibious tank kit. Now Dragon has announced a release of the 'eary' production variant.

Tamiya surfaces it’s I-400 kit again, this time with new features in a limited edition release.

Eduard has announced more PE sets for Trumpeters 1/200 kit of the U.S.S. Missouri.

Artwox has released 7 wood deck sets for ship kits of the Second Word War that range from a Pearl Harbor attack configuration of a US battleship to IJN hybrid battleships.

Artwox has come out with two new wooden deck sets for a Kriegsmarine destroyer and an Imperial Russian Navy battleship.

NOTE: I was at the GMM website in 'The What's New Section' and did not notice the date of it was 10/10/13. Since we had no images of the set listed here at the time of its release I decided to leave the article up -it's a nice looking set. Sorry for the confusion.

The venerable Gold Medal Models has released a PE set for Academy's USS Indianapolis kit. It is also reportably usable for her sister ship, USS Portland, in her 1944-45 configuration.

A kit of a WWII US Navy LSM (Landing Ship Medium) is now being offered by Revell of Germany. These ships were used from mid 1944 for amphibious landing operations in the Pacific against Imperial Japan held territories.

Now, alongside the Vosper crew release, a crew for history's most famous US torpedo boat, the PT-109 (Italeri Kit No. 5613).