IPMS Fine Waterline Special Interest Group
Welcome to
finewaterline.com, the website of the Fine Waterline Special
Interest Group of IPMS, the International Plastic Modellers Society.
As the name suggests, we are a group of modellers based in the UK
whose main interest is ships depicted in their natural element, at
sea. Our aim is to bring together people with an interest in
building waterline ships between 1:700 and 1:350 scale, and to aim
for ever higher standards in our modelling.
A gallery will show the work of the group with plenty of tips and
tricks to show how we got there. To help point you in the
right direction there is a links page to our other favourite
modelling websites and other IPMS groups, there are also those
important shops and companies producing resin ship models and all
those hard to find bits and pieces.
If you would like to join our group, submit articles and
photos for possible inclusion in the site or just generally would like to ask a
question, email us on - mail@finewaterline.com
and we will get back to you with how to send photos and how to format them.
You don't have to be an IPMS member to join our group, all
are welcome. Send your name and IPMS number (if you have one) and country
of residence so we can register you.
SIG leader Mike McCabe
Update 22 August 10
Kit Update - Summer holiday, no further orders until October
We are taking a break from kit production and
sales over summer, as of today we will not be making any more sales until
October.
At this point all of our kits are out of production, when we return with sales
in October it will probably be with additions to the Dunkirk line and some new
items but at present we have no plans to re-release any of the kits produced up
to this point.
Our philosophy is to sell very short run and limited edition kits made for the
experienced modeller who will have their own references and spares box to be
able to complete the model to their own level of desired detail, we do not plan
to keep all the range in production at any one time.
Should you have a particular wish for a kit in our range then drop us an email
on mail@finewaterline.com and if
there is sufficient interest we may be tempted to produce another batch,
otherwise once they are gone, they are gone.
Telford 2010
Time to start thinking and planning for the main
UK model event of the year, the IPMS Nationals at Telford in November.
This year's theme of the show will be the Battle of Britain, fine if you are an
aircraft modeller of course, but apparently, but keep this to yourselves, there
are people who are members of IPMS who don't build WW2 aircraft! Now you
have had time to recover from that bombshell, and in recognition of another
great event of 1940 and of course I mean the evacuation of Allied troops at
Dunkirk, the them of the Fine Waterline stand this year will be Operation Dynamo
and Dunkirk. A perfect opportunity of course to build some of our line of
kits, but also there are many more ships which are available in kit form which
took part in that momentous event.
If you are a Fine Waterline member and interested in participating, please let
us know.
Keith Jones Trophy
IPMS UK has agreed for a new trophy to be
presented for the first time at the Nationals in Telford this year, it will be
the Keith Jones Trophy in the memory of our good friend Keith who passed away
last year. The subject for the trophy will be any subject related to the
Battle of the Atlantic, so that includes ships and aircraft. It will be
sponsored by L'Arsenal who are kindly going to give a voucher to the winner of
the trophy. For those of you who will be at Telford, please consider
entering the competition and supporting this new trophy, even if competitions
aren't really your thing, it would be nice to see this supported as a way of
keeping Keith in our memories.
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USS Buchanan by Frank
Spahr
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ARA Moreno by Santiago
Ezcurra
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HMS Sutton by Don
McKeand
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HMS Repulse by Kostas
Katseas
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Yahagi by Bill Kluge
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S-38 by Dirk Mennigke
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HMS Manxman by Chris Smithers
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HMS Royal Sovereign by Frank Spahr
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