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<DIV><SPAN class=748544322-31012010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>My dad
used to volunteer for the Western Canada Aviation Museum, back when it was a
little tinpot organisation struggling to survive. He used to tell me how they'd
get donations of models - in their hundreds - from families whose father,
grandfather, uncle, etc., had passed away. Most of them, he said, weren't worth
saving as they were poorly built and/or in bad shape. Nonetheless each was
carefully packed neatly in boxes and stored away, never to see the light of day
again. I imagine they would have been binned later when it became a 'real'
museum and got fancy new digs in Langley B.C. I also know from my own stint as a
volunteer at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester that they were
inundated with donations of models but it just wasn't practical to take them so
they were always turned down.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=748544322-31012010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Not to
poo poo the idea too much, but I wouldn't put a lot of faith in any public
facilities taking your models. Personally if they get chucked in the bin I'm not
going to care too much when I'm dead!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andy </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>CEO, Editor in Chief, Choreographer,
Teaboy<BR><A href="http://www.warpedplastic.co.uk/">www.warpedplastic.co.uk</A>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
wwi-bounces@wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces@wwi-models.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>pfalzdvii@comcast.net<BR><B>Sent:</B> 31 January 2010 19:19<BR><B>To:</B>
World War I Modeling Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [WWI] Aging
Modellers<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P>For the better models (and you know which ones those are) there are display
cases at : libraries, local museums, public buildings (all sorts) airports,
(all sizes) This will not guarantee their survival for any great length of
time, but will give them a chance at surviving us at least, check into it.
FWIW</P>
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<P>Merrill<BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "Dennis Ugulano"
<djuggie@comcast.net><BR>To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List"
<wwi@wwi-models.org><BR>Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 1:11:06 PM GMT
-06:00 US/Canada Central<BR>Subject: Re: [WWI] Aging Modellers<BR><BR>On Sun,
2010-01-31 at 18:31 +0000, Don Ralston wrote:<BR>> ' What's going to happen
to our model collections when we are
gone?<BR>Don,<BR><BR> For those
us in the U.S., there is the WW1 museum in St. Louis. But we<BR>are all
aging at the same rate and I don't think they will need that<BR>many models.
I really don't have an answer.<BR>-- <BR><BR>Dennis Ugulano<BR>"Each
modeler will rise to their own level of
masochisim."<BR>http://wwi.priswell.com<BR><BR></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>