Of course that's the Goodyear blimp. Anyone can see that!
Perhaps the closest thing I've done to modeling is my friends and I would build models of the Bismarck, Yorktown, PT 109 or some other ship. We would place HO sized soldiers on them, pour a lot of extra glue on their decks (No JR2 we did not sniff what was left) Then we set them afire and released them in the local creek. We chucked rocks at them to simulate the near misses. The creek flowed at a nice slow pace giving the ships time to burn. Who ever could put the fires out with the splashes from the rocks won the battle. Sadly more times than not, the lot of them burned to the keel before we could save them.
Our creek was known as Plastic Bottom Sound.
This damned weather is for the birds (Sorry Mr Cheney)The past Sunday we received a blanket of one foot of snow which 3 days later was almost gone thanks to 2 days above 60 degrees. Now it's Saturday and temps are in the 30's. More Snow possible Monday.
Then we set them afire and released them in the local creek. We chucked rocks at them to simulate the near misses. The creek flowed at a nice slow pace giving the ships time to burn. Who ever could put the fires out with the splashes from the rocks won the battle. Sadly more times than not, the lot of them burned to the keel before we could save them. 
