Hugh shared a Facebook page devoted to model ship building.  It turns out there are several so I thought I would share some of them with you.  I wouldn't be surprised if there are others but you'll find some interesting things here.

World's Naval Modelers:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/205040799677954/

Drydock-Model Ship Builders Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1474990326123601/

Kits Model Ship Kiev
https://www.facebook.com/mlmodellship?fref=ufi

Blake found this video from the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic located in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Ah, the Bay of Fundy.  What a beautiful place... in the summer time.  Anyway, I really enjoyed sitting back, listening to the music, and enjoying these magnificent models.  Makes me want to go back to that part of the world again.  Thanks Blake!

We had another great meeting today.  Thanks for everyone who attended.

Welcome Bill Smallshaw to the group and it was great to see Daniele back as well.

We started off with an excellent presentation by Sam Bartlett on Reichsadler of the Kriegsmarine.  Sam shared the history of the German Navy use of the eagle or Reichsadler on their warships before and during the war.  Of particular interest was the only remaining example buried Uruguayan naval warehouse.  Hard to say what will happen to it but Sam's presentation caused me to look further.  Apparently somebody offered 3 million for the eagle bit it remains unsold.

It certainly is a unique piece of history that is worth paying attention to if you're building a model of this old pocket battleship of the Third Reich.

Next Roger gave a fabulous presentation on his trip to see the USS Texas.  Afterwards I felt like I had been there.  Now I want to go.  I particularly found the information about the ships' arrangement (Kitchens and mess arrangements) interest.  Also the discussion on the color was terrific.  It's amazing to see how different the colors of the ship are depending on angles and lighting.  I think we should spend more time talking about light modulation and how we should use it on our model ships. I have a very good book on this but it's based on armor modeling.  The same rules should apply but taking scale effect into consideration.  

Sam also brought some nice books to share.  Of particular interest given today's discussion were the two books on German Naval Camouflage.  Both of these books are available on Amazon and from various suppliers that sell through theirs and Barnes & Nobel web sites.  As Sam said these are THE references to have.  

John did not disappoint as usual.  Here are two of the three kits the kits he brought to the meeting.  I don't know how he finds these kits.  John, if you could shoot me the information on where you found these I'll post it for the group.  I know Modelkrak is sold at Free Time Hobbies but they don't have this kit.  I'm looking forward to John putting these together!

Update:  John provided the link to where he purchased these kits.  

http://www.jadarhobby.pl/ships-c-16.html?language=en

Bill brought a wonderful kit from an English company called Coastal Craft.  They make some wonderful 1/72 coastal forces ships of the highest quality.  The kits are constructed from resin and photo etch.  Thanks for bringing it Bill.  I'm hoping for a 77' Elco!

Here's a link to their web site.  Check it out.

http://www.coastalcraftmodelsuk.com/index.php

We weren't able to get to everything today so we'll pick up at coming meetings.  I'll check when Rodrigo can join us to follow up on our discussion on cutting.  I know some of you took some cuts at what I brought but we'll do more.

I'm excited to see more of Roger's road trips to museum ships.  Next will be USS Kidd.  Here's a teaser from that collection.

Thanks again everyone.  I look forward to seeing you all next time.

Dave

Hi all,
I've just learned that Rodrigo had an accident and broke his wrist.  Rodrigo, we wish you the best in your recovery!  If there's anything we can do for you please let us know.  We're still going to want to get your professional thoughts about scissors and clippers.

We're still going to have the discussion on rigging and clippers.  I've made a practice set for us to play with.  So bring your favorite cutters and we'll all get a chance to try out some different styles on different materials.

Sam will also be attending and he's going to have a presentation for us on Reichsadlers that he's been wanting to do.

So, we have two presentations and a hands one activity with cutting rigging.  Throw in some show and tell, what's new, etc. and we're going to have a busy meeting!

Last, Blake has been busy creating more shirt opportunities for us.  Take a look at his latest creation.  This would be for screen printing.  With Customink we can post the art work and you can select from a variety of t shirts (long and short sleeve, etc.) and order one at a time.  No group order is required.  Anyway, let's talk about this one at the meeting.  Thanks Blake for working on these for us!

Sorry guys,
A little late getting this posted.  Our meeting will be this coming Saturday, April 20th, at Rockler.  On tap for our meeting is the following...

We've talked about rigging but after it's in place how do you clean up the loose ends?  Our good Surgeon Rodrigo has agreed to talk to us about scissors.  I will put together a practice piece to work on with several different types of rigging material.  Specifically we'll have some fly fishing leader (monofilament), lycra rigging material (that fun stretchy stuff), and also some stretched sprue.

I would really like everyone to bring their favorite clippers and we can take turns trying the different tools on the different materials to see what we like best.

Following that Roger has advised the he's putting together a slide show of his trip to see the Kidd and Texas.  I'm looking forward to hearing Roger tell us about his trip and his observations on these wonderful museum ships.

I finally completed my Easter build, the Chibi-Maru IJN Akagi Eggcraft Carrier.  All my skills went into this little gem.  I'm really proud of this one and I'm looking forward to telling you about her.

Finally if you ordered a shirt and haven't received it yet I will be bringing them to you.  I'm pleased with how they came out and I hope you are as well.  

See you Saturday!

Dave