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  • June 03, 2025 2:29 PM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

    2025 Photographic Ship Model Review and Juried Competition

    The Board of Directors of the Nautical Research Guild is pleased to announce the 2025 Photographic Ship Competition. The last NRG model photo competition was in 2021. Just like last time your photographs will be submitted on-line. 

    Gold, Silver and Bronze medals will be awarded for the First, Second and Third place models in three categories: Novice, Apprentice and Master, and a Best of Show medal will be awarded to the best Gold medal winner.  

    The competition is open to all Regular Members in good standing of the Nautical Research Guild.   We have established a reduced fee membership open to Non-members who wish to participate in the 2025 Photographic Ship Model Competition.  The special half-price downloadable membership application is below and entitles the new member to receive the digital Nautical Research Journal and all membership privileges for one year.  

    The fee is still only $30 per model entered and entrants will also receive a written review of their model. Winners will be announced at the Annual Member’s Meeting. 

    The contest rules and entry forms are below.  Download the rules and entry forms and follow the directions to enter.  A separate entry form is required for each model entered.

    The forms are in fillable .pdf format and can be completed with Adobe Reader.  If you do not have this free application already installed, the following link will install it for you.  https://get.adobe.com/reader/.

    For more information, click HERE.

  • May 19, 2025 11:51 AM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

    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
  • May 19, 2025 11:49 AM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

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

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

  • May 18, 2025 12:35 PM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

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

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

  • March 13, 2025 1:05 PM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

    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
  • February 26, 2025 2:37 AM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

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

  • February 19, 2025 11:35 AM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

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

  • February 11, 2025 4:13 AM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

    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


    • SHOP NOTES: How to cut a plank with minimum wastage
    • SHOP NOTES: Slotting set-up jig
    • ADVERTISER INDEX
    • BOOK REVIEWS
    • MORE BOOK REVIEWS
  • February 11, 2025 1:23 AM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

    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.

  • January 19, 2025 4:26 AM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

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

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