Railway Design Associates has released "The Bangor Packet", a new paddle wheel steamer riverboat in 1/87 - HO scale.

A variation to Trumpeter's Dreadnought kit, featuring her as she looked when she took to sea again in 1918.

Load up your boomers with these ballistic missile sets for both US and USSR SSBNs.

If you have Italeri's 1/35 Vosper MTB (Kit No. 5610), you can now crew up her up with this figure set.

For a follow up to an early September report, slated to be released at the end of the year with White Ensign's HMS Vigilant (R93) kit, the HMS Scorpian (G72) is readying to leave the drydock.

Admiralty Model Works has released new 1/350 items for the Essex class carriers. There is a Deck Vehicles Set and an Ordnance Set. These are mostly printed parts and have exceedingly fine detail. I am very happy that these are now offered - they are perfect for my USS Lexington. Just look at the photos.

And now for something completely different. If you want to try a truely different kind of looking ship model then the Barracuda , from a Japanese TV animated series (anime, to those of us in the know) that origianlly aired in the late 1970s', may be just right for you.

A Chinese manufactured version of the Soviet made Osa class missile boat, the Type 21 class boats were made in several versions - t he Huangfeng class, Hola class, and Houdong class. The majority of Type 21's have being transferred to the reserve services but several dozens remain active and these active units are being rearmed with C-101 supersonic anti-ship missiles.

To give a base to the interior of Tamiya's nuclear 'Big E' kit, Tom's Modelworks has released a new hangar detail set to park your Tomcat's, Hornets, Intruders or whatever else you'd like to make a diorama within a model of.

L'Arsenal has two new 1/350 scale items to add to either your ships or dock settings. Both sets are available from the L'Arsenal webite.

Listed as coming out later this fall and available for pre-order, is a 1/450 kit of the guided missile destroyer Atago. She is the lead ship of a class of the same name, named after Mount Atago in Japan.

It floats, it belongs to a navy, so I'm reporting it here (sorry, Armorama). A late version of the Imperial Japanese Navy's amphibious tank.

Artwox has just released two new wooden deck sets for the IJN Battleship Mikasa from the 1905 Battle of Tsushima fame and the WWI German cruisers Emden/Dresden.The Emden/Dresden set is for the dual kit release by Revell.

Estimated for a January 2015 release, this will be the third release for Trumpeter in this class after the Maryland and West Virginia. The Colorado was the lead ship of the Colorado class of battleships.

Battlefleet Models is offering detail sets for dressing up docks that includes a 'shed', 'bollards', gas/oil containers' and 'stackable wooden crates'.

White Ensign Models has announced two new resin kits in the works of World War II Royal Navy destroyers, the 'V'-class Vigilant and 'S'-class Scorpian.

New from Gwylan models, a mixed media kit of an exotic subject - the Russian made 'Zubr' hover-landing craft.

What first entered the kit market as Pyro in the 60's and then Life-Like model kits in the 70's eventually ended up under the Lindberg name. Now this month Round 2 has re-released these kits under the Lindberg title that they recently acquired.

If your looking to build something that went to sea with deck chairs and swimming pools instead of canon and torpedoes then Airfix had two new luxury liner kits for you this month. This first is of R.M.S Mauretania and the second is of R.M.S Queen Elizabeth.

Joining their Queen Elizabeth, Warspite and Barham Q.E. class battleship kits, Trumpeter has announced a 1943 configuration kit of the HMS Malaya. The Malaya was named in honour of the Federated Malay States in British Malaya, whose government paid for her construction.

Released in July, two new wood deck offerings of the IJN battleships Ise and Yamatao.

The latest issue of Model Art's publication Vessel Model Special will cover the Imperial Japanese Navy battlesship Ise and her sister ship, Hyuga. Both ships had been converted into hybrid battleship/aircraft carriers that actually ended up limiting their ability as fighting ships.

The Type 22 (Broadsword class ) was designed to be a specialist anti-submarine warfare vessel as part of the Royal Navy's contribution to NATO and starting entering service in 1979

This month marks the 100th anniversary of The Great War and Eduard has released two PE sets to dress up a Revell's kit of a ship that fought in that conflict, the SMS Emden.

Hasegawa is releasing limited edition detail sets for their cruiser, destroyer and battleship kits. They include turrets, barrels and auxillary craft.

White Ensign Models is offering a challenge, (of sorts) for identifying what Trumpeter kit their forthcoming photo ecth set is for.

To compliment their 1/700 scale ship kits, Niko has released new accessories.

Built by Osaka Iron Works. Laid down on August 14, 1936. Launched May 11, 1937. Completed August 31, 1937. Built orignally as a whale oil factory ship, she became an auxillary oiler for the Japanese Imperial Navy.

The "Treasury" class Coast Guard cutters (sometimes referred to as the "Secretary" or 327-foot class) were all named for former secretaries of the Treasury Department. The cutter Spencer was named for John C. Spencer, the 16th Secretary of the Treasury.

Victory was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions of the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth Dockyard, and launched on 23 February 1737. Scale Warship has released a set of photoetch detailing for the Airfix kit 1/180.

The Kagero was alead ship of a19-vessel class of destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late-1930s under the Circle Three Supplementary Naval Expansion Program . The Mogami-class were a class of four warships built initially for the Imperial Japanese Navy as light cruisers in the early 1930s under the weight and armament restrictions of the London Naval Treaty.

Now obsolete, the air-launched and ship-launched lightweight Mk. 44 torpedo manufactured in the U.S., and under licence in Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom with 10,500 being produced for U.S. service before being replaced by the Mk. 46 in the 1960's.

If you have a 1/350 Post WWII carrier in the works or planning on one soon , here's something to help dress up the internal hangar space.

The heavy cruiser Indianapolis now comes in a kit with her slayer, the IJN submarine I-58 with photo etch for both.

Just in time if you want to add more aircraft to Gallery Model's Vietnam era USS Intrepid. The Crusader was credited with the highest kill ratio in the Vietnam War for US fighters - 19:3

Trumpeter has released some images of their big USS Iowa kit and here they are.

USS New York was the lead ship of her class. Named for New York State, she was designed as the first ship to carry the 14 inch/45 caliber (356 mm) gun. She served in both World Wars.

Minicraft's release of Martin's PBM-5/5A Mariner kit is the first of this aircraft for a mainstream model kit manufacturer. Now Eduard has issued several sets of photo etch details to enhance the kit.

RC Subs has moved to surface ships now with a set for Trumpeter's big Bismark kit.

RC Subs has produced sets for the 1/72 Type-IX, Type VII and the Skipjack subs and now has done a set for the Type-VIiC.

The latest from Hobby Scale Press is an in depth article on building a 1/700 Shokaku as she appeared durring the Pearl Harbor raid.

Tom's Modelworks is offering new PE sets of cranes for 3 different classes of Second World Wary US Navy heavy cruisers.

Bronco is offering 3 versions of the Chinese Navy's Type 056 Corvette and a 3 pack of US Marine SuperCobra helicopters.

The Sea Slug was a first generation surface-to-air missile designed by Armstrong Whitworth (later part of the Hawker Siddeley group) for use by the Royal Navy. It came into operational service in the 1960s and was still in use at the time of the Falklands War.

No more scrounging around for figures to populate your landing craft. The latest from Italeri is a 1/35 LCVP (described as from new molds) fully loaded with US infranty troops!

Now for the Revell Cutty Sark kit, a wood deck to bring the big windjammer's deck to life. Scale Decks' name gives a clue to what they specialize in.

Orange Hobby has announced a new multimedia kit in 1:350 scale of the Pegasus class hydrofoil. Due to the type of ship it is, this kit will be offered only as full-hull version.

For your 1/72 scale invasion fleet, a new landing craft kit from Airfix as part of thier big D-Day Anniversary product release. Used not only during Operation Overlord and the invasion of occupied France, the LCVP was also used throughout American naval operations in the Pacific, proving to be particularly useful during the operations at Okinawa and Iwo Jima.

White Ensign Models 1/350 HMS Portchester Castle (K362) Castle-Class Corvette is coming soon. The kit is currently being prepared for a late summer release.

An assortment of bags that can be used as cargo for trucks, or placed on piers to give life to dioramas.