{"remote_ids": {"viaf": "45637567"}, "source_records": ["bwb:9780851774992", "amazon:0851777619", "amazon:0851777600", "amazon:0851773516"], "key": "/authors/OL423084A", "personal_name": "John Langford Bowen", "name": "John Langford Bowen", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "birth_date": "1916", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "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.\r\n\r\nSource: [About the Author](https://www.amazon.com/MORE-MINIATURE-MERCHANT-SHIPS-Waterline/dp/0851779360)"}, "alternate_names": ["John Bowen", "John L. Bowen", "John Langford Bowen"], "latest_revision": 4, "revision": 4, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-05T13:45:49.556180"}}