S.M.S. Emden (1910), HMV, 1:250

[speedbird]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

Magnificent!

The name "Norman Ough" comes to mind.

Don

Thanks! But let’s not carried away! Ha!

[speedbird]

A pair of bollards

[drg]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

Magnificent!

The name "Norman Ough" comes to mind.

Don

I had to look up the name, but he seems to have taken things a bit too far:



"He never married and there is much anecdotal evidence that he lived a frugal, even impoverished,[5] lifestyle in which model-making was a totally absorbing pursuit even to the extent of twice being hospitalised for failing to eat adequately due to concentration on his work.[6]"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_A._Ough


Cheers!

[romanmodels]

good work djg

[Don Boose]

drg -

Whatever his lifestyle, Norman Ough was an incomparable ship model builder, and your and Joe Lavender's ship models (as well as those of others in the Forum; Mike Mash, Marco, Abhovi, and Doris, to name a few) seem to me to be at the Ough standard and are a delight to the eye.

Don

[speedbird]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

drg -

Whatever his lifestyle, Norman Ough was an incomparable ship model builder, and your and Joe Lavender's ship models (as well as those of others in the Forum; Mike Mash, Marco, Abhovi, and Doris, to name a few) seem to me to be at the Ough standard and are a delight to the eye.

Don

Well thank you! It’s a high compliment! I just can’t imagine my tinkering being at the level of old Norm though. He was something of a Zen Master at the art while I’m just a guy with too much time on his hands!

[drg]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

drg -

Whatever his lifestyle, Norman Ough was an incomparable ship model builder, and your and Joe Lavender's ship models (as well as those of others in the Forum; Mike Mash, Marco, Abhovi, and Doris, to name a few) seem to me to be at the Ough standard and are a delight to the eye.

Don

Don, very kind of you to say, but Norman seems to have been on another level - from me at least.

BTW thanks for ‘introducing’ me to his work; based on that, I ordered the book on his life and work today (it’s on Amazon if anyone is interested).

Cheers!

[drg]

Originally Posted by drg

Don, very kind of you to say, but Norman seems to have been on another level - from me at least.

BTW thanks for ‘introducing’ me to his work; based on that, I ordered the book on his life and work today (it’s on Amazon if anyone is interested).

Cheers!

The book arrived yesterday - I think it's really good. It's not a step-by-step guide by any means, just a bit on his life, and chapters on the various parts of the ships and how they were made. I think the photographs are mostly pre-digital, so not great. There are plenty of his drawings (obviously some are a bit small so they fit on the pages), but all the same I'd recommend it to anyone interested in model ships:

[Don Boose]

I think, aside from the photographs and drawings, the main value of the book is that it reproduces many of Norman Ough's articles that originally appeared in Model Maker. Most of this is descriptive of Royal Navy ordnance, deck furniture, boats, and warships, but there is a fair amount of discussion of his model building techniques.

I read many of the Model Maker articles when they came out in the 1958s (for several years, I had a subscription), and Ough was a big influence on me (although I never developed any model building skill) and my buddy, Jim Reuter (JimR in this Forum), who went on to a career as a Smithsonian model builder.

Don

[drg]

Finished pictures here:


Finished: HMV S.M.S. Emden


Thanks for all the comments during this build!