One I have wanted for some time...

This is a beautiful model. I too would want to restore it to perfection.

@bob-jackman   I understand.  Years ago, when I began collecting art, I was also very busy with a new business and even after acquiring works of art I had longed for, they languished on my walls unattended to.  It was my friend, Orlando Agudelo-Botero, who reminded me that works of art find their way into our collections because that was their destiny, for there are no accidents in the universe.  After that discussion I periodically 'stopped to smell the roses' and often put my feet up in one room or another, with a good Merlot, or Chardonnay, and a bit of Chopin to enjoy what had found its way into my world.  By all accounts, you have an extraordinary collection.  Should I send over an 'oaky' Chardonnay?

@rich-sufficool   I have good news to report, and I am stunned by how simple it was to correct the condition of this model.  If the owner had taken the time to tidy up he/she could have realized a more substantial return from the auction.  I'm almost embarrassed to share what I paid for her.  Almost.  As it turned out, what I thought were two dings, turned out to be a bit of schmutz and the model cleaned up very nicely.  Here are two pics to show the results:

The Chardonnay sounds wonderful but I am restricted from any alcohol as it conflicts with the medicine I'm on. I find that enjoying my collection is possible as the models themselves are  stimulus enough.

@gdh The results are fantastic. Congratulations!

@bob-jackman   We are in the same boat, in that regard.  I have a nice wine refrigerator stocked and my doc says 'no' to imbibing, but once a year or so I have a glass of Merlot, or Chardonnay.  In the US, my then physician, Doctor Tyree's advice was if I had to have a poison (something my body didn't handle very well) then I should pick the best hemlock I can find, hence the rather tasty assortment in the wine fridge.

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@bob-jackman   We are in the same boat, in that regard.  I have a nice wine refrigerator stocked and my doc says 'no' to imbibing, but once a year or so I have a glass of Merlot, or Chardonnay.  In the US, my then physician, Doctor Tyree's advice was if I had to have a poison (something my body didn't handle very well) then I should pick the best hemlock I can find, hence the rather tasty assortment in the wine fridge.

Coming from an Italian heritage, I was given wine since I was about 5. Over the last 79 years, two doctors reminded me to keep my alcohol intake to a minimum; which I do. But I outlived both of them. I have had my young female internal medicine doctor now for 32 years (Her first patient in 1994). She only once decided to discuss my alcohol intake and we did that over a glass of Chianti. Our spouses joined us. It was delightful medicine for all!

@perrone1   LOL.  Wine was not seen in my parents' house, and that may have been their problem from the start.  Maybe a tipple would have helped.  I learned years later, from my aunt, that my father's cardiac doc suggested a red wine with dinner would be good for his heart.  I have no idea if he followed the doc's advice. 

When I became F & B Director for a hotel, in my early twenties, I had to learn everything I could about wine (most of which I have now forgotten).  Helping me along was a particularly helpful sales rep who even wrangled an invitation for me to attend a private dinner with Alexis Lichine.  When we were introduced, Monsieur Lichine complimented me on my suit, by Yves St. Laurent.  He was wearing the same.  Later, when he and I were discussing what wine is best with which food, I confessed I occasionally enjoyed Halibut cooked with butter and pepper accompanied with a Merlot and his counsel was to enjoy what I enjoyed, and let the critics do the dishes - where they might be of better use.

@gdh 

What a thoroughly cool story! I guess, because we were so young in experiencing alcohol, we three kids (I was the baby, 16 years the junior of my sister, 14 years of my late brother) that we learned from dad, not to overindulge in anything. He came from Sicily.

My sister turned 95 this past July 3rd and still drinks a glass of Vino at dinner.

@perrone1  Good for her!  I also have an allergy to sulfites (sorry, spellcheck, but that is the correct spelling) and they now have these wonderful things called 'wine wands' that you stick in the glass of wine and let set for a couple minutes, before imbibing.  They remove  the sulfites, and they work wonders.

@gdh fantastic outcome, well done!

@geoff-jowett   Thank you, though it was mostly down to Novus and a bit of elbow grease.

@perrone1   Sicilia... For the past ten days we have enjoyed dinner with an episode of Montalbano and we have many episodes left.  The climate would kill me, but to live on the Med would be something.  I would be in the water twice a day.

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@perrone1   Sicilia... For the past ten days we have enjoyed dinner with an episode of Montalbano and we have many episodes left.  The climate would kill me, but to live on the Med would be something.  I would be in the water twice a day.

I could adapt to Medeterranean living very nicely thank you!

@gdh Congrats. It looks great and with a bit of elbow grease, you got a deal.