best way to create damage on your 1:24 model?

Grind from behind till you get it very, very thin. Poke, prod, use a tiny amount of heat, etc.

A very good way is to make a copy of the bent body part out of aluminium or lead foil (thicker gauge aluminium form something like a disposable pan and lead wine bottle cork wraps) and clobber it as appropriate. With practice and experimentation, you can pre paint and then crunch the part and get realistic paint damage too. To make the copy in metal, get the foil and burnish over the surface of the part, lead especially can be made to stretch or compress a bit to conform to shapes, aluminium can stretch, but usually not as much. If you use fairly thin aluminium and want part of it not to crunch, you can back it with some superglue to stiffen it up.

Get a cat :+)

Kim M

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Try using a HAIR DRIER, the same one the wife uses. Turn it onto HIGH and start to wave it close to the area you want to be able to damage. Keep testing to see if it getting hot and when it's hot, start making the damage, when it cools down, hair drier again, keep this up till you have what you want.

radish

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