This custom flea circus was built for a wonderfully imaginative European customer who wanted to claim it was found as a curiosity in an old shop in the US.  He asked that we bang up the case, and John wanted to attch it by chain to his car and drag it around!
Being the engineering type, I couldn't stand the though of any structural damage, so we just painted the scapes and stains on!  It came out quite beautifully I thought!