Episode 50: Doug Cohen

For their 50th episode, your hosts talk with versatile Texas-based modeler, sculptor, and painter Doug Cohen, whose work stands out at any show he enters, as readily identifiable as his sense of humor. (The photo above, from his Facebook page, he captioned, “Doug with bacon.”)

Like all of our interview subjects, Doug has always been generous in sharing his knowledge and advising others about the methods that work for him, either in person, on the Net, or via the book published by his friends at Reaper Miniatures (seen above). Following is a representative sampling of his work, although with his impressive variety of interests and skills, it’s hard to call any of his pieces “representative.”

Above: An in-progress shot from Facebook of the recent John Brown diorama we discuss during our chat. Below: Doug does love his flags! (Photos by Bob Sarnowski)

Below: Doug also does fantasy…

And ordnance!

Finally, some relevant links from the chat that wraps up this 50th episode: More info on the annual MMSI Chicago Show, Oct. 18-19; Chris Meddings’s Model Philosopher Podcast (Barry and Marijn van Gils talk modeling and storytelling on Episode 8), and the 1/48 Tamiya Group Build sponsored by the Plastic Posse Podcast (The interior of Barry’s tiny tank-in-progress can be seen below).