I used to work with a guy who liked the Me 262, loved the Canadiens hockey team, thought Che Guevera was cool, and smoked a LOT of pot.
So I made a plane for him:
and put it on a base:
And even did a little pilot that looked like him, wearing a Habs jersey and a Che beret.
A friend had an ALPS printer at the time, and he did all the markings and leaves in gold chrome. I added the sharkmouth and the all black scheme, cuz, well, I always wanted to do a Me 262 in that style.
And then I had it posted on ARC, back in the early 2000s. I thought "Hey, people will get a chuckle out of this", I even wrote a funny little back story about a guy who sold pot who used the proceeds to buy his own Me 262, and buzzed the DEA planes with it. I concluded the article with the addendum that I don't do pot, sell pot, or even think it's cool.
And then, the fertilizer hit the air conditioner. A guy claimed I was promoting the use of pot, and the piling on began. Soon I was defending my reputation over this silly model, and the squabbling lasted the better part of the day before I realised I needed to say:
"I thought we had settled that if you build a model of a WW II Luftwaffe plane, it does NOT make you a Nazi, but I do a model with pot leaves for markings, and I'm a drug dealer now?"
So that ended the whining.
I haven't posted it online since though. I hope you enjoy it in the spirit it was meant.
Al P.*
* And I STILL think pot is dumb.