Features

Kitmaker crewmate Tim Parker (pzkw) sends us a fine batch of walk-around images of the United States Coast Guard Cutter, Eagle!

MSW Crew-mate Andrew Ayling (jester_ara) sends us some fine images of his build of the The Royal Navy's X-craft!

MSW Crewmate Lars Juel Mosbaek (aeronautic) shares a fine build of the IJN Hosho, first carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, in this MSW "On Display"!

MSW crew-mate Carl Musselman (CarlOmaha) shares his latest complete build with us in this MSW feature!

MSW Associate Editor Frank Portela (Clanky44) gives us a "Photography 101" course with this MSW look at how to take better photos of your models!

MSW crew mate Bob Cicconi sends in a portfolio of images of his build of the IJN Tokiwa, Asama Class Armored Cruiser, in this MSW "On Display"

MSW Crew-mate Peter Fulgoney (PeterF) took the maiden voyage on a magnificent, new cruise-liner, "Independence of the Seas", and shares the experience in this MSW walk-around!

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 MSW "On Display" has been spawned from Dade's latest MSW Full Build review of this model kit, the IJN Mikasa, by Hasegawa Models.

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

The United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter, USCG Bear, is the focus of this MSW "On Display" built by Dade Bell!

Crew mate Wink Grise is the subject of this months "MSW Artist Profile", join us in a one-to-one!

New MSW Crew-mate Carl Musselman (CarlOmaha) shares this fantastic conversion of a vessel that his father served upon, U.S. Navy Seaplane Tender, USS Duxbury Bay AVP-38!

This Arizona is the DML/Dragon special edition built by Rui Matos for the Garry Beebe Dreadnoughts Campaign. Enjoy

Skipper brings us an Antarctic scene this time, as a result of the No Guns Allowed Campaign. Enjoy the ice

Spawned from our recent "Riverine Military Craft" Campaign, comes this fantastic diorama scene built by crew-mate Zdeněk Petrovič (zdenda), the focus of this MSW photo feature!

Harry Abbott, aka Harry_at_BFM, started a Campaign where No Guns would be allowed in your built! A good excuse for a lot of members, that were also competing for one item of BattleFleet Models Catalog, as a prize, given in the end of the Campaign. Here is

MSW crew-mate Lars Juel Mosbaek (aeronautic) shares his latest IJN build, Takao-class heavy cruiser, Chokai (Japanese 鳥海), in this MSW build feature!

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!

MSW Crew-mate Lars Juel Mosbaek shares this fine build of the IJN Light Cruiser, Tatsuta in this MSW Build Feature!

Crew-mate Erick Navas sends us a batch of images of a great diorama, a dockside harbor scene featuring the IJN Chuyo and Nagara!

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

MSW Crew-mate Jacob Walker (redneck) shares a fine gallery of images of his build of the IJN carrier Zuikaku, in the MSW Photo Feature!

MSW crew-mate Raul Guzman Jr. treats us to something decidedly different, although definitely related, to our ship-building genre, with this magnificent diorama in this MSW Photo Feature!

Scott Taylor (RedComet) shares the first in a series of articles of modeling tips and techniques, Step-by-Step style, he has written and developed!

Crew-mate Rob Kernaghan shares a fine build of the USS California in this MSW "On Display"!

New MSW crew-mate Lars Juel Mosbaek (aeronautic) shares his first MSW submission with us, in this fantastic build story/photo feature of the Shiokaze!

Crew-mate Erick Navas shares a fine batch of images of his IJN battleship Ise, in this MSW "On Display"!

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!

MSW Crew-mate Rob Kernaghan sends us a fine portfolio of images of his latest build, Regia Marina's, Regina Margherita class battleship!

Crew-mate Andrew Ayling (jester_ara) shares a super scratchbuild image gallery of his 1/350 scale, HMS Ajax!

New MSW crew-mate Erick Navas shares this fine portfolio of images of his IJN Zuikaku build in this MSW "On Display"!

With this feature, MSW will make a new way of showing the results of our Campaigns. What a better way, than to make a "parade" of all the models that finished successfully a campaign?

Crew-mate Mike McCabe shares a fine gallery of his tanker, SS Fort Erie, a resin conversion build that was included in this years "Atlantic Convoy", in Telford, England !

MSW Senior News Writer Kenny Loup, is the focus of this months "MSW Artist Profile", come join us for some interesting conversation!

Crew-mate Andrew Ayling (jester_ara) shares his second MSW contribution with us, a fine build feature of the HMS Quality!

Jan Klarbæk (MrMox) sends us this fine diorama photo gallery, which he built centering around Italeri Models 1/35 scale "Maiale" manned torpedo!

Crewmate Rob Kernaghan sends us new images of his latest build, French Dunkerque Class Battleship, The Strasbourg, built from the WSW kit, in 1/700 scale.

Andrew Ayling sends us his first contribution with this fine example of the HMS Dianthus, in this MSW Photo Feature!

Steve's background in prop making comes to help all of us with a great feature on how to reproduce parts in resin.

Crew-mate Raul Guzman Jr. shares a fine photo gallery of his H.M.S. Victory, in this MSW Photo Feature!

Crew-mate Grzegorz Zięcina (pedro) shares his build of Italeri Models, SLC 200 Maiale kit in this MSW Build Feature!

Bob Cicconi (bobcicconi) shares images and details of his latest build, a modification of Tamiya Models Fletcher kit to depict the USS Stevens, DD-479, in this MSW Photo Feature!

Emotional, that is what you get when you see one of JBA's dioramas. Each viewers has a different emotion, but we all feel something when we see his dioramas. This one is no different. He shares lots of tips and techniques from the ground up.

Crew-mate Christer Johansson shares a unique vignette that he has built for our "No Guns Allowed Campaign", and shares a fine selection of images in this MSW Photo Feature!

Jim Baumann shares a complete build story with us, this time it's the Spanish Navy Battleship PELAYO, as in 1895, using the Jadar Models of Poland, full resin kit.

Jim Baumann shares a very unique experience with us in this full build feature of the French Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Massena, beginning with the short run kit from Festival Dreamworks of Japan, and adding Jim's special touch, to arrive at a very beauti

Bob Cicconi shares his latest submarine build with us, Aoshima's 1/700 scale I-400 kit, with Bob's special touch!

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

MSW Crew-mate Wink Grise (Rokket2001) shares a bit of Nautical history with us, with a tool, and the method used, in the age of sail, to determine navigational speeds.