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  • 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. 

  • November 23, 2024 11:49 AM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

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

  • November 23, 2024 11:47 AM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

    A new workshop for the SS Naparima is now online for NRG members. Check is out here

  • November 18, 2024 2:12 PM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

    All book reviews are now published online, up to and including issue 69.4

  • November 09, 2024 1:04 PM | JAMES HATCH (Administrator)

    The new NRJ is now available for download to NRG members. Contents are:

    Features

    • Breaking the barrier
    • Topsail schooner sails and rigging the Texas Navy sloop-of-war Austin.
    • J-boat Ranger.
    • La Salle’s La Belle: The pretty little ship that changed Texas history
    • Making small boats.
    • Neptunia No.315
    • Reconciling resources, or, down the rabbit holes: Decision making when references differ.

    Columns and Editorials


    • SHOP NOTES: Weathering and rust
    • ADVERTISER INDEX
    • BOOK REVIEWS
    • MORE BOOK REVIEWS
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