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Vol. 64, No. 1 Spring 2019 78


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were from shaped or turned brass and soldered as required. T e three guns were castings from San Diego Model Co. Ports were drilled brass rod fi lled with clear epoxy, as were the bridge searchlights and compass.


T e case was glazed with glass. T e base holds


In retrospect my forty-year model voyage is primarily about people, mentors and associations. T e fi rst repair, for a high school coach, was a 1930s Marine Model Company America built by his father. Next came repairs for the New York City-based North Star Gallery. I was also collecting models. Soon restoration and scratch building became the obsession. Aiding this was membership in the Ship Model Society of New Jersey and contact with a Society plank owner and friend, Jim Roberts, who encouraged building a 1:24-scale model of South Street Seaport’s Pioneer. I was then helping Jack Putnam (a model builder himself who ran the museum’s bookstore) with


the model on representative ways surrounded by hardened clear resin over blue paint. T e resin puckers when drying and creates an illusion of small waves. Instead of permanently fi xing the hull to the base, brass tubes and rods were used so that the hull can be liſt ed on and off the ways, but the case and model can still be moved and tilted if necessary.


an evening model class. Pioneer received a Bronze Medal at the 2000 NRG Conference. All this led to a sideline business of building and restoring models for individuals, museums and shipping companies. Amongst many models was the battleship New Jersey for the T omas Edison Foundation (Charles Edison was involved in the approval of the Iowa class). On the horizon is the restoration of a 200-year-old model of Royal Sovereign (which fought at Trafalgar) built by a crew member, and a scratch built model of HMS Somerset, which blockaded Boston Harbor and sank off Cape Cod in 1778.


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