I have read on a number of forums that the military modeller and historian Shep Paine has passed away. Shep was one of the inspirational figures in my formative youth and has been a driving force in my own model making career.
I have a number of his books on my bookcase and will miss his simple and direct approach to building models and dioramas.
For details of his models go to this link.
I have also seen this tribute to him on youtube.
Tony
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Sad News. I was looking at Pictures of his dio, The Gun Deck of HMS Victory just the other day.
Bugger. He was inspirational.
Well, it comes to us all, but I feel oddly very sad. A whole chunk of my 'formative years' has gone. I used to drool over photos of his models, especially in the old Historex catalogues and he was one of the two or three people who influenced my painting style.
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