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I have fond memories of this sitting on a tall dresser in the spare bedroom growing up, climbing to the top of the dresser to marvel at it...at least until my parents made the room mine then up into the attic it went. After getting stuck in a hot attic for the last 25 years I am finally in a place to work on this. I just bought my first house and in the sweap to get things for myself I claimed it, now I just need to fix it up a bit so that it's not falling apart. The goal is to not destroy anything that I can't fix, which means the rigging has to stay and I'm trying to keep as much of the paint on it as I can. One good thing is the sails and cannon covers are made of metal. I think tin? Whatever it is it didn't rust at all and where the paint flakes off it's shiny underneath. Plan for them is to let them be as much as I can. The major damage is the front mast and railing is a bit busted. The way the front piece looks it's missing half of it, so I'm going to have to make a new piece. I'm thinking of making it out of some thin wood to match the other half. Also the hole in the center makes me think I'm missing a pointy bit, like the rear has. Sorry that it's sideways. These bits have fallen off, but shouldn't be too hard to put back The other major issue is the 2mm of dust coating everything Look at this little lady drowning in dust. I don't have an air compressor, but I did get this little rechargeable paint sprayer in a craft kit. I haven't used it to paint with yet so it's clean and has a gentle air stream. 2am is really not when I should be writing a log...so off to bed
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