John Langford Bowen

John Langford Bowen, CEng, MRINA, is the author of several acclaimed titles for Conway Maritime Press, including Miniature Merchant Ships (1997), A Ship Modelmaker's Manual (1982), and More Miniature Merchant Ships: The New Guide to Waterline Ship Modelling at 1/1200 Scale (2003). Building waterline models has always been his favorite form of modeling and More Miniature Merchant Ships is a culmination of his continuing achievements in this area of ship modeling. John was deputy editor of Conway's quarterly journal Model Shipwright when it was launched in 1972 and has been its editor since 1974. He contributes a plan and instructions for a miniature merchant ship to each issue. John is a Member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.

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