Winter time model building thread.

When I was in the U.S. Air Farce, staioned in wild wonderful Biloxi Mississippi(in the early/mid 70's the place was a true rathole), in my boredom on base, I used to build models, then, using numerous implements(needles, pencils, etc) and heat, I would "massage" them into looking like they had been in mediocre to horrific crashes, call it the morbid side of my personality. I had about 15 models at the peak, one of which was a Pinto that I crunched the rear in and then using paint and large flame, to create mucho soot, gave it the look of a real pinto that had a rear end collision and had burned.

It all came to an end, though, when, during an inspection, the Squadron 1st Sgt ordered me to destroy the carsm as they "represented a morbid side of life that wasn't consistent with the Air Farce's philosophy,", his words verbatim. I had to supply him with the crushed broken remains of the cars. It really pissed me off, cause it took lots of time, and creativity(something I severely lack) to create these.

I have often thought about starting to buy models again(AMT's were my fave's as they seemed to offer the greatest flexibility in builds, and were really good to create these effects with) and working on my own display of "wrecked cars".

But then again, I have so much time to put into the REAL 64 Barracuda when the weather breaks.

FF