Show and Tell Friday: Embattled model space ship

Kelli at There’s No Place Like Home hosts “Show and Tell Friday” asking “Do you have a something special to share with us? It could be a trinket from grade school, a piece of jewelry, an antique find. Your show and tell can be old or new. Use your imagination and dig through those old boxes in your closet if you have to! Feel free to share pictures and if there’s a story behind your special something, that’s even better! If you would like to join in, all you have to do is post your “Show and Tell” on your blog, copy the post link, come over here and add it to Mr. Linky. Guidelines are here.“

This week’s Show and tell is a little off the beaten path for me, but when I see it it often makes me smile, so I figured that qualified. 🙂

My two older sons liked to put together models when they were in their pre-teen to early teen years. They didn’t care for WWII planes, like my dad did, or classic cars: they liked space ships, mostly Star Trek models. Once Jason saw some pictures online about a model whose maker wanted to make it look like it had been in a battle. Jason thought that was really cool and wanted to do the same thing. Here are the results of two ships:

I think it primarily involved using a match or a lighter to lightly burn it in spots. I have to admit, when he first asked me if he could do this, I was loathe to “mess up” a perfectly good model. But the battle scenes were what both boys most liked about Star Trek at that point. Plus he had a fascination with fire for a while there, and this was a more creative means of handling flame.

So he got to do something creative and fun, and I got to “loosen up” a little. 🙂 And those memories of his boyhood make me smile.

16 thoughts on “Show and Tell Friday: Embattled model space ship”

How fun. I can’t wait till my son is old enough to put together model cars, ships whatever. I think I may get into it a little more than he will though 😉

Thanks for sharing your son’s handiwork.
~Amy

That’s great! Way to “loosen up” and enjoy it mom!

Need models of that era. I remember my sons making a space ship model years ago.
Susan

my husband has always been a model builder. He goes to great lengths to make them look authentic, like your sons “battle worn” ship. Your sons were right on!

Star Trek! They look so much like something from the Star WARS movies!! You coulda fooled me.

I would say that is a Star Wars model, as well as a few I see in the background–my brothers and husband are all into Starwars, and a bit into Star Trek, and they would all LOVE what your sons did here.

Well, a uniue story–funny too.

Very neat! Sure that took them hours to make.
Derek would love those.
He is into making things like that with legos and the like.
Have a blessed weekend.

That is so very interesting…like you, I would have hated to ruin a perfectly good model but as moms we do need to lighten up at times:-) I think it’s so neat the way it turned out! xo