Features

April 25th saw the 33rd Annual Northeast Model Ship Show and Conference in New London Connecticut. This annual event is hosted by several model ship clubs in the North East that take turns sponsoring the event.

Darren Baker shares with us a series of pictures taken at the Explosion Museum.

Jim shares about 200 ship photos he took while at the 2013 IPMS USA Nationals in Loveland, CO.

MSW Crewmember Adam Greenwold [dougiedog] took time from his busy schedule to send us some shots of the recent Scottish National Model Show.

MSW plank-owner Rui Matos (skipper) continues in his tradition of covering the Telford based IPMS UK/Scale Model World, in this fantastic show report from this years event!

KitMaker member Jesper (SGTJKJ) sends in a photo report of his trip to Haifa Naval Museum, Israel, in this MSW Feature!

MSW plank-owner Rui Matos (skipper) sends us his annual ship photo report from IX ModelScala contest in Montijo, Portugal, in this MSW feature!

MSW crew-mates Peter Fulgoney (peterf) and Rob Kernaghan (rkernaghan) took a recent trip to the Portsmouth Navy Days event that ran from July 30, to August 1, 2010, and compiled this fine batch of images to share with us!

We attended the IPMS-USA Nationals and have brought back photos of the excellent ships exhibited there. Enjoy!

MSW crew-mate Peter Fulgoney (peterf) sends in another fine show report from our friends at finewaterline.com, this time, from the Ardingly show in West Sussex, UK.

MSW "plank owner" Rui Matos (Skipper) shares his annual AMA Model Show Ship Report in this MSW feature!

MSW crew-mate Peter Fulgoney (peterf) shares a gallery of images of his recent visit to the Lancing Model Show, 2010, Lancing Sussex, in this MSW Show report!

MSW crew-mate Adam Greenwold (Dougiedog) shares his recent visit to the Scottish Nationals Model Show 2010, in this MSW Show Report/Feature!

MSW crew-mate Peter Fulgoney (PeterF) shares a recent experience of the recent Hornchurch Model Show, held in March of 2010, with our mates from FineWaterline SIG!

This is the "ship only" photo report of the 12th ModelTroia contest, held in Lisbon, during the 6th and 7th March weekend.

As usual, here is the Ship related Photo Report of Scale Model World, held in Telford, England (November 8-9). For those who couldn't attend and the ones that did, enjoy the photos.

Take a group of model builders, throw in some ship kits, give them a year, and see what happens.

Dave O'Meara (grumpyoldman) have send us a photo report from one of his own state IPMS branch contest, the MosquitoCon 2009. Enjoy

If the Rally Paris-Dakar can change continents, we have changed city, and this year ModelTroia modeling contest was held in Lisboa, Portugal. Here's the ship photo report...

Ten years after their start, AMBA (Associação de Modelistas do Baixo Alentejo) and the "Clube de Modelismo da Escola Básica 2, 3 Mário Beirão" gave a big leap and made the first modeling event: BejaModelShow...

This is the ship photo report of IPMS UK Scale Model World, held in Telford - England during 15th and 16th November. Enjoy

For those who can't attend this temporary exhibition at the Museu de Marinha in Lisboa, Portugal, here it is a Photo Report and the history behind it!

This is the Ship Photo report from ModelScala 2008 event, held in Montijo, Portugal

MSW crew-mate Peter Fulgoney took a recent trip to the Royal Engineers Museum at Chatham, UK, for the Medway Modellers Show, and has treated us to a pictorial feature of the event!

Join me in a photo walk-about gallery of this years IPMS USA National Convention, held in Virginia Beach, Virginia!

MSW Associate Editor Frank Portela spent some time at the TORCAN Model Show in Toronto Canada, last week, and shares the experience in this MSW Show Report!

This is a Ship Photo Report of AMA's - Almada Modeling Association XII annual exhibition, 2008. Enjoy!

Announcing the Model Shipwrights Community Build Contest, our first year long, online model building competition to build any armed ship from the ironclad age to the present, in any scale!

Ahoy MSW Shipmates and Staffers! Running in parallel with our "MSW Community Build Contest", we now announce the "Shipwrights Staffers Build Contest"!

Crew-mate Dave O'Meara took a trip to this years East Coast NJIPMS MosquitoCon, and came back with a heap of fine looking ship model entries to share with us!

This was the tenth ModelTroia contest, held in Setubal, Portugal. Here's the ship photo report. Enjoy

Kenny (Gator) Loup took a recent trip to The Live Oaks Civic Center, in Live Oak, Texas, to the Alamo Squadron IPMS/USA Region 6 annual event, ModelFiesta, Number 27, and shares some of the show's highlights with us!

After all the 'drier' News Reports on Nuremberg, with this, I want to cover the manufacturers who didn't get a full report. It's also an opportunity to cover some areas i'm NOT particularly confident with (Aviation and Warships to name but two). Finally,

Crew-mate Kenny Loup (Gator) took a recent trip to Westlake, Louisiana to attend his local IPMS CALMEX XXII model show/contest, and shares some of the shows highlights in this MSW photo report!

Again, SMW surprised me with the quality and amount of models displayed. Here is the Ship Report. Enjoy!

Our coverage of the IPMS-US National show which took place in August of 2007 in Anaheim, California.

CKLOO and Silantra, Malaysian members of Selangor and Federal Territory Plastic Modeling Society (SFTPMS) of Malaysia, presents us with a Photo Report of their debut event! This is a promissing one - Keep up!

As promissed here is the feature with the results of the first online contest here at MSW, Ship Of The Quarter #1. Thank you for all participants and to all sponsors. Enjoy

This was a good year for shipmodels at our annual expo - not too many, but with high quality!

After a lot of cooking, here is the latest teaser and motivator for our members.

Kenny Loup (gator) attended this year ModelMania at Houston, Texas.The show is essentially exposition of the hobby of fine-scale model building. It hosts a contests which each year, on an average, nearly 500 scale models are entered. These are some of th

This years contest ModelTroia (Setúbal - Portugal) was kind of short in ship models, although a lot of ship modelers appeared and enjoyed the show. Perhaps next year we have a lot more high quality ship models for our pleasure. Enjoy

Kenny Loup (gator) took his models to the local club Expo. He got more than he expected - Thanks for sharing these photos with us, Kenny. Enjoy

Here is my view of some of the ship models present on display and also some of the models that entered the contest.

Dave O'Meara attended MosquitoCon2006 and he made a photo report of it. Although the full report was already released in Armorama, I though it would be a good idea to make a "Ship Only " feature of it. Enjoy