During the winter of 2014/15, Steve carried out extremely sensitive restoration and repairs on an accurate five foot scale model of the Queen Mary built by my father in the late 1930s. That was around the time that the real thing was under construction. Somehow he obtained the plans. The model had suffered from a number of house moves and clumsy interference. Steve’s great achievement was to restore elements of the superstructure, masts and rigging taking care to maintain colour matching consistent with the age of the model, and so as to avoid a shiny ‘new’ appearance. Altogether a fantastic job!
With gratitude, Ernie Oliver