Miniature design artist to showcase creations at Pleasant Hills Library
By Eric Seiverling
eseiverling@yourmvi.com
Artist and Pleasant Hills resident Jim Allan credits a car crash as his inspiration that led him to become a successful, award-winning animator and miniature designer.
No, not an actual car crash with injuries and insurance investigations.
Born with a vivid imagination and an appetite to create his own designs, a younger Allan took popular plastic model cars and molded them into his own vision.
“My dad bought me a couple car models when I was 9,” Allan, now 80, recalled. “I took a soldering gun and melted the fenders and cracked the windshields and made it look like the two cars had crashed. My dad asked me why I didn’t make it look like the picture on the box. I told him anyone can do that. I wanted something different.”
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