After taking my daughter to sail her destroyer on our local lake I was fired up to build something for myself again ( why should she have all the fun, and I am also fed up with her saying when can I have my boat back !!!)
So into the attic I went and I found my old Newport News model I built about 17 years ago when I belonged to The Wessex Model Boat Club '88 ( I was 4 stone lighter and had hair back then!!!) She was looking very tired and battered as she had not fared well enduring 4 house moves ( Fordingbridge Hants to Ferndown to Poole Dorset to Exeter Devon and finally to Newport in south wales) she will need a complete restoration. The hull is still ok it just needs sanding the old paint off filling and repainting, the superstructure is basically sound and won't require much work to look good again but most of the fitting that are not actually missing are damaged beyond repair and my daughter has promised to help me as long as I let her sail her model more at the lake.
I will post more pics as the rebuild progresses.