Miniature Battle Damage

I was reading THE RISING by James Doohan
(actually ghost written by S.M. Sterling),
and came across an interesting sentence.
Our hero is approaching a battle-damaged
starship and is noting the damages:

"Other sections showed the characteristic
star-shaped craters and blast patterns
of direct-charge nuclear warheads, or the
blobby melted look of plasma bursts,
or the long sword-slash mark of heavy lasers."

This lead me to interesting thoughts about
putting battle damage on some of my
lead miniatures. What do you all think?