Posted by - wirewolf
Post date - 10-19-2006, 05:01 PM
To all member's,
As some of you may already know, I work at the US Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York (http://academyphotos.net/photogallery/directions.html). Located on the Academy grounds is the American Merchant Marine Museum (http://www.usmma.edu/about/Museum/default.htm), which has a rather large collection of ship models, as well as many ship models on display though out the various Academy buildings.
Many of the older models, especially sail, are in desperate need of restoration. Most of the repairs deal with "lead rot", broken rigging lines, reattachment and or repair or broken parts and for the most part, they need a good cleaning.
As with many small museums', they have a very tight budget (they do not receive monies from the Academy directly but from private donations and from the Alumni) and the cost of hiring model ship restorers' can be prohibitive.
As you may have guessed by now, I'm looking for model shipwright volunteers to perform some restorations. The one caveat is that the repairs would have to be done on site. These older models are quite fragile and trying to pack them up and ship them could cause irreversible harm. The Museum would supply materials, but you would have to bring your own hand tools at first. I'm going to try and have the Museum purchase some basic hand tools to keep on site.
Some repairs may only take one day, where as some may required repeat visits, depending of the amount of damage. Therefore, only members that live within a reasonable distance from the Academy should consider volunteering.
Your only reward would be a hardy handshake, a "Well Done!" and I plan to have a brass plague with your name and any restoration information installed inside the display cases after the restoration is complete.
So, if any member is interested, contact me by Private Message (http://shipmodeling.net/vb_forum/private.php?do=newpm&u=3) and we can go over the details.
Thank you, John
As some of you may already know, I work at the US Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York (http://academyphotos.net/photogallery/directions.html). Located on the Academy grounds is the American Merchant Marine Museum (http://www.usmma.edu/about/Museum/default.htm), which has a rather large collection of ship models, as well as many ship models on display though out the various Academy buildings.
Many of the older models, especially sail, are in desperate need of restoration. Most of the repairs deal with "lead rot", broken rigging lines, reattachment and or repair or broken parts and for the most part, they need a good cleaning.
As with many small museums', they have a very tight budget (they do not receive monies from the Academy directly but from private donations and from the Alumni) and the cost of hiring model ship restorers' can be prohibitive.
As you may have guessed by now, I'm looking for model shipwright volunteers to perform some restorations. The one caveat is that the repairs would have to be done on site. These older models are quite fragile and trying to pack them up and ship them could cause irreversible harm. The Museum would supply materials, but you would have to bring your own hand tools at first. I'm going to try and have the Museum purchase some basic hand tools to keep on site.
Some repairs may only take one day, where as some may required repeat visits, depending of the amount of damage. Therefore, only members that live within a reasonable distance from the Academy should consider volunteering.
Your only reward would be a hardy handshake, a "Well Done!" and I plan to have a brass plague with your name and any restoration information installed inside the display cases after the restoration is complete.
So, if any member is interested, contact me by Private Message (http://shipmodeling.net/vb_forum/private.php?do=newpm&u=3) and we can go over the details.
Thank you, John