discussion Old modelling handbooks/guidebooks/manuals

[Bugatti Fan]

I have the Art of Weathering book and Cottage Modelling for Pendon.
The weathering book is a very good treatise on the subject although biased towards railway modelling.
The Cottage Modelling for Pendon describes how the individual buildings were made for the museum at Pendon in the Vale of the White Horse in Oxfordshire. The working model layout is absolutely staggering with the attention to detail. Look on the Pendon Museum website to get an idea.
Over the years we all tend to accumulate various books. Harry Woodman's book on scratch building model aircraft is reckoned to still be one of the best despite its vintage. Published back in the 70'x by MAP.
My particular 'go to' books are the Complete Car Modeller 1 and 2 books by Gerald Wingrove, rightly considered to be one of the great masters of that particular genre of model subject. Both superb books.

 

[radish]

I will 'second' the books by Gerald Wingrove, they would have to be about the best books I have come across, to show how a Master Modeller actually makes the bits for his models.

He had a couple of extra books printed about all the different model cars he made and another about Ship Modelling, any of these are well worth acquiring, just to see how many models he has made.

None of these books by Wingrove, show you how to hide all your mistakes under a thick coat of dust either, they show you how "meticulous" he was. ---- at what he did.