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Jacob B. Groby III
Lacombe, Louisiana
Jacob’s build of Revell’s 1/96 scale Cutty Sark was badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. More than 10 years later, he decided to try to make something out of the mess. “I cut away the rigging, separated the parts carefully, stripped off the old paint, cut away the damaged section of the hull, and re-created just the bow section,” he says. His hard work paid off when he won first place in the Flying Tigers Model Contest at the Louisiana IPMS Chapter and a special award for creativity. He says that while he lost more models than he cares to remember in that hurricane, this winner is a good example of why you should never throw away a model!