Blake came across this wonderful site.  Some amazing photographs of ships from around the world over a period of many years.  I didn't see anything much newer than the mid 50's.  You could spend hours and hours looking at this high quality photos.  Thanks for sharing with us Blake!
Dave
Here's the link:
http://dennilfloss.blogspot.com


Here's a sample of the USS Colorado.  But wait till you see this photo on the site!

Hi all,
Sorry for the late post.  Just a reminder that ship club meeting is this Saturday, May 28th, 10:00 am at Rockler Woodworking on Colorado Blvd.  From the feedback I received we will have another good turnout.

No planned program for this meeting.  Bring any new builds, new additions to your stash, stories, or what have you... and don't forget the donuts!

For the June meeting I'm considering putting together a program on selling on eBay.  I've had good luck and experiences selling some of my unwanted items there and I would be happy to share with you what I learned along the way.  We can also talk about what to look out for when buying items on that site.  If this is something you would be interested in please send me an email.

If anyone has a presentation they would like to do please let me know that as well.

Dave

Are you all ready for this?  Here's the trailer for the upcoming movie, "USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage"  The release date is May 27th.

Update - It appears this movie won't be released until July/August time frame.  It may not even reach theaters.

The trailer

Hi all,
Blake came across another video for us.  I suspect Bill Smallshaw will find this very familiar.  This is a behind the scenes tour of the USS Iowa.  I did this on the Missouri and found it all very familiar.  Sit back and enjoy.

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