News and Announcements

The NRJ Journal issue 70.2 is now ready for viewing online, for NRG Members only. 

https://www.thenrg.org/journal

Features

• Building a framed model of the midship section of Batavia
  
• The Nautical Research Guild’s photographic ship model competition
• USS Independence: The model, Part 3
• Palawan: A half-model presentation, Part 2
• The Mayflower Shallop
• Neptunia No.317
• Building a paper model of the Imperial German Navy’s dreadnought SMS Nassau, Part 1

Columns and Editorials

• SHOP NOTES: Clamping between frames
• SHOP NOTES: Making wooden cleats
• SHOP NOTESL Rabbet cutting - made easy
• ADVERTISER INDEX
• BOOK REVIEWS
• MORE BOOK REVIEWS

Please check out our updated book reviews page, featuring articles tied into issue 70.2 of the NRJ.

https://www.thenrg.org/resource/books

The new NRG member's workshop is online: Model Ship Photography, by Tim Kidwell

https://www.thenrg.org/events/workshops

The NRG is proud to announce the launch of a special edition magazine. 

This is called Ship Modeler's Handbook, and is available directly from our store.

Please click HERE to access the shop page directly. 

Contents:

• Editor's page
• Working in tight places
• Save your fingers
• Undoing glue joints
• Cleaning sandpaper
• Bending brass pipes and making fittings
• Thoughts on bending wood
• Simulate splices
• Making round eyebolts
• Embossing dimples
• How to copper a hull
• Painting a waterline
• Hoist your colours
• Make your ship's grate
• Bases and mounting models
• Zen and the art of creating the ocean
• Swift: a Virginia pilot boat of 1805
• Chart a different course
• Modeling the Imperial Russian Navy monitor, Uragan
• Strategic detailing for ships
• Make a showpiece of Showboat
• Build Huck Finn's raft

The NRG's latest workshop, 'Building Okesa (Part 2)' is now available for NRG members to view. Click HERE to access. 

All book reviews are now published online, up to and including issue 70.1

The latest Digital edition of the Nautical Research Journal is now online for members to access.

https://www.thenrg.org/journal

The contents are as follows:

Features

• Repairing the ketch, Nonsuch
• Ships and Tales: The history of the model context at Manitowoc
• Professional Modelmaker, Dan Pariser: A ship modeler's modeler
• Building the HisModel statenjacht Utrecht in 1:72 scale
• Palawan: A half-model presentation
• Neptunia No.316
• The missing link
  
  

Columns and Editorials

The Nautical Research Guild now hosts the entire back catalog for the Model Ship Builder magazine, originally published from 1979 to 1999 inclusively. To access the searchable index and a link for the product page, please click THIS link.

The NRG's latest workshop, 'Reconciling Resources' is now available for NRG members to view. Click HERE to access. 

The video for the NRG 2024 Membership Meeting is now online for NRG members. Click HERE to access.