[WWI] Aging Modellers

[Nicklas, Brian]

Okay - the curators at your local air museum have put up a moat and barbed wire to keep you and your models away.

How about finding out where your local Air Force ROTC/Jr ROTC/ Civi Air Patrol Squadron/ Air Cadet unit(s) are located?
They may not last long, or they may be doled as as room decor for a short term, but better than direct to a bin.

Or, find if there is a diner/pub nearby with an aero theme that might hang them from the ceiling.
Might even check to see (if you live in a big enough town/city) that has a commerical interior decorator that may know of a client who would use them.

If in NY or LA, a prop warehouse/supplier that could use them for set dressing.
(might be a one shot then binned, but again, better than direct to the bin)

Look at the local airport, there might be an FBO (fixed base operator) that might take them for decoration/display, or maybe if the famil or you could just leave them and let people take what they want as hangar dressing.  Some pilots like models but don't build them - that why the mahogany models sell so well.

You've built big sturdy ones?  How about the kids ward at the local hospital?
Short life span, but they'd go out in a blaze of glory.

Just some ideas.
- Brian

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At a recent meeting Cross and Cockade, someone posed the question ' What's going to happen to our model collections when we are gone?' Anybody thought of this? I've got over 70 1/48 WWI models sitting on my shelves gathering dust. Who's going to want them? Not my daughter or the grandchildren (The propellers and wheels don't go round for a start!)

Any ideas?

Don