the overgowth can be simulated using multiple products from woodland scenics a rail road modle secnery manufactures the shot up glass can be accomplished in many ways drilling small holes then sanding track marks or use of a sanding disc rotory tool or for shattered glass secret weapon actrualy selld ground glass for doing snow effects but hey why not use the real stuff eh the wireing can be made useing 24gaige telephone wire its close enough to scale for large gauge wire

thank you for your help with my MIG i think i found a way that works best for the bullet holes i just need to find a skull to replace the pilot's head and i need to find a way to make the wing look like it was torn off the jet. For the wing i was of drilling holes into it and make sections of the plastic thinner so i could just rip the wing off but i'm not sure if that would work. Another thing i need help with is i'm trying to find a way to make the fuselage's plastic give the buckled look (the crumpled metal look) I was thinking that I would get a heat gun and heat the plastic up till it's a little flexible then push on the front to make the ripples, but i am not sure if that would work.

possibly with some shapeing tool like a metal putty knife to give creases

Please share your thoughts

Which MiG? If we're talking Great Patriotic War, make sure you show some serious degrading of wooden surfaces were appropriate, as well as pretty much all fabric areas to be gone or nearly so. Don't do the typical dumb thing of a tight trail of holes. Actual combat will tend to have just random hits.

no it's a MIG-15 from the PLAAF

ah, the southafrican Mirage F-1....

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An I thought that inet page was random enough ^^

i can just get a cork and you have a typo btw

no no hun i'm sorry if i sounded rude i was saying that a cork can be used as well but thank you for the help you did give me hun i really do appreciate it

i understand what you mean hun and you don't need to apologize hun

thank you Modelfurs site owner for posting this for me and thank you to every one else that has helped me. When this is done i will be posting pictures on FA and i give Modelfurs permission to post pictures on here when i am done

Thats what this group is for!
Allways happy to help out here and there :)

A thing I did years ago that could work to represent substainatial damage to a metal structure- get some stiffer than average metal foil, like a disposable aluminium broiling pan, cut out a section and carefully press it into the model surface you want to damage to pick up the surface detail. Do what crumpling you think is appropriate and then splice in the metal section for the kit section. You could even work up some internal structure to have the skin press into or flex around. Trying to simply melt the plastic ends up just looking like melted plastic. Using metal for a torn edge to a wing is also much more effective than chopping plastic. I'd recommend googling an image search to find some good representative damage. And make sure it is crash damage rather than trashed on the ground damage, very different effects.
And give some consideration to what may have shot the thing down. Most modern jets have cannons rather than guns, so any impacts are going to be small explosion events, not simple penetrations. But if you want a bullet through the canopy, it would more likely Not have cracks, or at least not more than one or two going all the way out to the frame, 'cause the overall transperency has failed, not some cracked window. Not that you could tell, as the canopy would have fogged up over time (unless you cheat to see the guy inside) and any related bullet hits (likely .50 cal.) are going to be simple holes, nothing too dramatic. MiGs had fairly heavy gauge skins so wouldn't show impact tears as much as simple punch throughs.

well not with a MIG-15 this would be up against the F-86 saber that had six 50. cals so no cannons so i don't need to do blast damage and thanks for the tip with the metal but i don't know what it is that you are suggesting i use

Oh, in the US, disposable modest gauge aluminium foil containers of all kinds of foods are common, as are one-use foil cooking pans or pots. They are fairly thin and soft foil that is thin and soft enough to conform model shapes, yet is stiff enough to be manipulated into assemblies, unlike really thin foil , which can still take details, but is so soft and thin that it doesn't bend or crumple in a convincing fashion for crash damage in that scale. One exception for thin foil would be to simulate smushed thin metal skins on control surfaces, providing some internal structure is there.

okay then thank you