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    About the Author

    Jul 14, 2020 2 minutes

    have spent my life working as a model maker in some guise or other, the latter part of my career found me making full size replicas designed to fool people into thinking they were real. I also managed to fit in ten years as Master/Engineer aboard the PS (an 1878 Australian paddle steamer). I have a passion for all manner of mechanical apparatus.

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