Paul Boyd
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- Location
- Loughborough, UK
I was quite shocked to read in the current issue of Railway Modeller that Iain Rice died in October this year. I don’t think it’s any exaggeration to say that if it wasn’t for him, I would never have got into finescale modelling, and in particular “An Approach to Building Finescale Track” is a seminal work with my copy being very well-thumbed. I can very definitely point to that book as being the realisation that there’s more to track than pinning down Peco track, which in turn led me to Templot in 2001.
I have most of his Wild Swan books, if not all, and the way he explained things gave me the confidence to have a go. Later on I may have decided that I’d prefer to do things differently, but it was he who gave me a very good starting point. Many of his layout suggestions feature in my Templot doodling, albeit some are rather fanciful!
I have most of his Wild Swan books, if not all, and the way he explained things gave me the confidence to have a go. Later on I may have decided that I’d prefer to do things differently, but it was he who gave me a very good starting point. Many of his layout suggestions feature in my Templot doodling, albeit some are rather fanciful!
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