Anybody got any ship related goodies from St. Nick?

Jake,

I got Anderson's The Rigging of Ships in the Days of the Spritsail Topmast.  I also got a gift certificate from my favorite local hobby shop.

This year was rather sparce.  I usually get several kits and PE sets but everyone is telling me to wait for my birthday in February.

Bill Morrison

The closest thing that I got was a book by Michael Crichton called the Pirate Latitudes…. Although I really need to spend some time at the bench. It’s been almost 3 weeks since I touched the planking on my current build.

i got the airfix wasa kit, looking forward to building after getting done with my heller gloriex.

Does the WSP10 from BILLINGS qualify?? That and a didital caliper for my modeling shop. I really wanted the PATRICK O,BRIAN series of the AUBRY/MATURIN sagas. I have recently acquired the H.M.S. SURPRISE. The ship will be built way down the line. Other than that does anyone really want a 1/1250 model of the QM 2?? I got one of them too.     tankerbuilder

I got Dragon's 1/350 USS Buchanan and USS Kidd and a copy of Douglas Reeman's novel Twelve Seconds To Live and David Mearns' The Search For The Sydney.

I got the Heller 1/100 H.M.S. Victory and the book, HMS Victory: Her Construction, Career, and Restoration.  Big project for me!

Eduard and GMM PE sets and Yankee Modelworks turrets and superstructure to spruce up a 1/350 USS Missouri.

I got a lump of coal in my Christmas stocking.

   Montani semper liberi !  Happy modeling to all and every one of you.

                                                   Crackers

I got a very crude Russian kit of a Tupolev G5 Torpedo boat.

I scored this year! 

1/700 Trumpeter Bismarck
1/700 Trumpeter Tirpitz
1/700 Tamiya Prinz Eugen
1/700 Trumpter Hornet CV-8
1/350 ICM SMS König

and some books, one of which relates to ships

Conway's Battleships

Oh, and for my birthday a Midship Models 1/700 USS Nevada 1941 

Shipwise, I got Academy's 1/800 Eisenhower. Good basic kit, that with some patient detailing looks like it will build up nicely. The parts are flash and sink-hole free, and the aircraft complement is just enough to make the deck look busy, but not cluttered.

My other Santa goodies were two winged things, one of which I am going to build in the 2010 Phantom group build.

I sort of bought it for myself but I picked up the Dragon 1:700 Laffey set.  It includes parts for two complete ships, one waterline and the other full hull.  Detail is excellent but I couldn't leave well enough alone and purchased White Ensign Models PE 754 Benson/Gleaves class photoetch set to trick it out.  I also have some left over Lionroar photoetch 20mm's that I'll add in. 

This is a very unique little kit and extremely well done on its own. 

I scored big........and I mean big.

A Revell 1/72 USS Gato and a Minicraft 1/350 Titanic.  Now......just got to build a 1/1 scale attachment to my display room!

RODC

RodC,

If it's a new Titanic, look in the instruction booklet I think page 2 or so and read it.  It took me and several other modelers most of a year to help them fix mistakes in the older mold.  It was a fun project adn I was honored to have them thanks us n writing - cool.

Jake Groby