Saturday, June 17th is a very special day, and not only because it happens to be my birthday. Mark your calendars for an online workshop arranged by the Nautical Research Guild on Diorama Water Crafting, which will be presented by good friend and outstanding ship modeler Ron Neilson.

The workshop will take place via Zoom at 10:30am Central Time, and you will need to be a paying member of the NRG in order to attend, though the event itself is free. I myself plan on attending, though it requires I start off my birthday sitting in a Zoom session at 8:30am (It’s Pacific Time here).

Ron has done some really amazing diorama work, having migrated over from the usual static model displays, and will be showing us how to take an ordinary model (or perhaps an extraordinary one) and bring it to life by placing the subject in it’s natural…