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Model Ship Repair & Restoration by Tony Ashdon

(after)
SS America by Van Ryper (Early Fall 2011)
Rigging replacement.

Porpoise of Salem (Late Summer 2011)
Did Hurricane Irene pass to close?

Elsie w/wood sails (Late spring 2011)
Sails: missing, broken w/parts missing

(after)
Pond Yacht (Sprint 2011)
Complete rigging replacement, created tiller.

(1:400) Van Ryper C2 cargo ship (Winter 2010-11)
Replace rigging, repaired, created railing and one life boat.

(Winter 2010-11)
Replace rigging, created one propeller, base & stanchions.

Full Rigged Ship (summer 2010)
Repairs & replacements to the repairs & damage.
What a little dusting can do.

Natalie S. of Gloucester (summer 2010)
Repairs & replacements to the repairs & damage.
What life without a case becomes.

HMS Bounty (early fall 2009)
Repairs & replacements to the repairs & damage.
Like the real thing, rigging will rot.

BlueNose (spring 2009)
"When the Ship hits the Sand."
Cats, Kids, Sacks & Wives; things happen and you precious display is rendered for closet use only.

Prinz Freidrich Wilhelm (late summer 2009)
Some times when you get to be about a hundred years old things just fall off.

Vintage early 1900 Pond Yacht Rainbow (summer 2009)
Her first complete re-rigging, in a century.

All repair & restoration work is done with care. Our aim to keep everything as close to the original as possible. It is not our intent to correct the original builders work, but to preserve their renderings.

Kindly contact us with you needs to open a dialogue for recovery and return of your model to what "was".

* NOTE *
had the above "before" models been in display cases, it would have been many more years before requiring repairs