Features

Toby Knight shares his experience building and final photos of his latest project of Trumpeter's 1/350 – Type 23 Frigate HMS Westminster.

Bruce Davis shares with us a good number of images covering his visit to the USS Silversides Museum.

T. Garth Connelly, a name familiar to PT Boat enthusiasts, shares his insights on Merit's 1:48 Elco PT kit!

Michael Walsh shares with us his fully crewed Elco PT boat!

Julian Sallows shares with us a shirt build feature on the Italeri Vosper MTB.

Sit back and enjoy this new project from our shipmate Werner De Keersmaecker as he does a major scratchbuild of the HMS Campbelton.

We present for your viewing pleasure the HMS Cavalier off the Kola Peninsular 1945 by Peter Fulgoney.

Our friend from Malta Louis Carabott brings us another one of his masterpieces. This time he has build the Revell 1/350 USS Wasp

Ed S. Sarao bring us some pictures of his M.A.S 684 4a build.

Join me for another installment of our Meet the Modeller series. This time we take a few minutes to talk with David J. Salvin.

Our German shipmate Dariush (Dr_Who2) shares some photos of the Kiel Maritime museum he took while on vacation.

Join us in a "one-on-one" conversation with MSW crew mate Ray Bean in this installment of our "MSW Artist Profile" series!

Join MSW shipmate Simon Heathwood as he takes a cruise by the Russian Protected Cruiser Aurora.

MSW Crew member Tim Parker takes us for a trip around the decks of the USS Missouri.

MSW Crew member Alan McNeilly shares with us his build story of the RM MAS Boat in 1/35 scale.

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

MSW Crewmember from Malta Louis Carabott shares a fantastic conversion of the Airfix HMS Illustrious into the 1982 HMS Invincible.

Jorge Martinez gives us a step by step of an interesting base making method. This allows you to display the ship in full hull, not just waterline.

Join me for a talk with one of our members in this installment of Meet the Ship Modeler. In this issue we talk to Louis Carabott

MSW Crewmember Karl Zingheim shares with us another historic story of the USS Tirante's attack on the Hakuju Maru in Ha Shima's harbor.

MSW Crewmember Chris Smithers [smithec] shares his experience making a multi-media project of the French Contre-Torpillier Jaguar 1924 in a hybrid-con-fusion sort of way.

Join MSW Crewmembers Augusto and Jorge Martinez as they take a stroll around the USS North Carolina.

Join MSW Crewmember Anthony Kochevar[ajkochev] as he tackles the cruise IJN Tama in 1/700 scale. His main focus of the build is improvising and scratch building details when a dedicated photoetch set isn’t available.

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!

New MSW member Doug Hallet (budgie) sends in his first submission, a very impressive action build of the Trinity House South Goodwin Lightship, in this MSW Feature!

MSW crew-mate David J. Salvin (djandj) sends us this build story of his conversion of JAG's USS Sacramento kit to depict USS Seattle (AOE-3), shortly before her decommission in 2005.

MSW crew-mate and PT-Boat aficionado T. Garth Connelly shares a conversion build done by modeler Stan Pienkowski for Garth's personal collection, in this MSW feature!

MSW crew-mate Augusto Martinez (rea00cy) shares his method of re-creating the look of an icy sea-scape, in this SBS (step-by-step) MSW feature!

Alan McNeilly (AlanL) shares a fine article focusing on some his works from his massive "Pier 51" diorama, in this MSW Build Feature!

Alan McNeilly brings us a walkaround of HMS Stickleback currently on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.

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

Alan McNeilly brings us a walk-around of MTB 71 currently located at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.

Alan McNeilly bring us some reference pictuers on the Biber on display in the Imperial War Museum London.

MSW plank-owner Rui Matos (skipper) shares a fabulous piece of work, his latest diorama, entitled River Tagus, Navy Ship Board, circa 1952, in this MSW feature!

MSW crew-mate David J. Salvin (djandj) shares his build story of Delphis Models, Italian Carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi (551), 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-mate Antonio Marranita (tmarranita) shares his latest scratch-build with us, this time, he tackles the Soviet Armored River Monitor in this MSW Build Story!

MSW Associate Editor Jim Adams [goldenpony] takes us for a trip through history following the Name Enterprise.

Ahoy Shipmates!!! Sit back and enjoy the story that MSW Crewmember Louis Carabott [loucar] has for us today. It is of the French Battleship Le Richelieu as she departs New York after her 1943 refit.

Join us in a "one-on-one" conversation with MSW crewmate Guido Hopp (Tailor) in this installment of our "MSW Artist Profile" series!

Our 2010 Campaign Wrap up for the MSW Camouflaged Ships Campaign!

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!

Chas Young shows how he creates small palmtrees.

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.

Bill Cross (bill_c), Armorama Associate Editor took a recent trip to Cleveland, Ohio, and stopped by the USS COD Submarine Memorial, and snapped a batch of "walk-around" images for us to enjoy!

MSW crew-mate Julian Sallows (Gremlin56) shares his build story of Revell Models 1/350 scale Tirpitz, in this MSW feature!

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

MSW crew-mate David J. Salvin shares his build story of Delphis Models Andrea Doria D553, in this MSW Feature!

youngc (Chas Young) shares a resourceful method for making tropical foliage. This method mixes natural products and creativity to add plant life to your jungle settings.