Gerald Wingrove Books

[Bugatti Fan]

The late Gerald Wingrove's books The Complete Car Modeller 1 and 2 have been mentioned on this forum before. The CCM books are specifically about passing his techniques on for others to benefit from.

But there are two others that I would like to make people aware of.   

The Model Cars of Gerald Wingrove, a large coffee table book with mainly photos of his models he made up to a certain point in his career. Not much text in this book, being more of a photographic tour de force of his completed works.

The Art of The Aufomobile in Miniature by Gerald and Phyllis Wingrove.  A much later publication, again chock full of photographs but this time supported by much more text about the original cars and about the models themselves. 

I have both, and can say that the latter has more in the way of information about each model.

As Gerald tends to be associated with car modelling, he was also a proficient ship modeller too!  I'm fact his first book was about building a ship model that was published by Model and Allied Publications.  'Not a lot of people know that!'  To quote a well known Michael Cane phrase.  He built a huge shipyard diorama that is the centre piece at Bucklers Hard Nautical Museum in Hampshire UK  that was commissioned by the late Lord Montague of Beaulieu. The shipwrights cottages and slipways are still there to see adjacent to the museum itself. The diorama is absolutely breathtaking, having visited it some years back.

Edited December 31, 2024 by Bugatti Fan