How many of you guys have strapped a pair of rockets to the wing of a plane in the hopes of making it fly? How about putting a firecracker under a tank and pretending it just rolled over a landmine? (We get to “legally” (i.e. the government doesn’t do much to enforce the laws) play with LOADS of explosives during the new year here in the Philippines.) [:D] Anything stupid… seeing if your USS Yorktown will float in the pool maybe (only to watch it sink like the real thing…)
Oh, and that rocket thing? Yeah, I did that. Damn thing melted the wing and flew off in the general direction of our car… dad wasn’t too happy about that.[:-^]
Absolutely!
I have reels and reels of Super-8 film (now all transferred to video) documenting the demise of countless model kits. Influenced by Star Wars and other films, I seriously wanted to be a special effects technician, and did a lot of minature effects work as a teenager with my modeling buddies. Consequently, I built a lot of stuff with the intent to blow it up! I weakened key structures, and built in receptacles for ignition devices and explosives and other flammable materials to enhance the explosions. The parents never new till decades later!
Of course, the earlier days certainly featured the ocassional bottle rocket up the tailpipe of some old and tired kits, too.
Too bad I didn’t get all those on film…
When I was a kid, I used to put shotgun shells on a fence and shoot at them with a BB gun. The one time I did hit the primer, the shell came flying back at me, just missing my head. That was the last time I tried that trick.
For every action, there is a equal and opposite reaction.
LOL
I did a few of these type of experiments too. Pulled the bullet out of a .303 round and ignited the powder with a match…once! Not to bright but I found out why missles have fins.
So what’s stupid about that?? [:D] [:D] That’s FUN!! [;)] * kids don’t try this at home, we’re trained professionals * wait, I was a kid when I did that stuff!!
I think my best effort was when we took my friends little brothers cheap plastic, metal axle, General Lee car (big one) and duct taped a c8 model rocket motor to the roof and sent it off across the empty high school parking lot. I didn’t know that type of plastic would burn so redily and trying to stomp out molten flaming plastic before the cop going down the road sees it isn’t much fun [B)] [:p] [:D] However I did learn what not to do unlike the guy in Arizona that strapped the JATO bottle to his 1/1 car out there in the desert. [8D]
BTW the General Lee did some stunts worthy of the show before going down in flames [:D]
We bypassed the bottle rockets in favor of the much larger ones. Strap 2 of them on a 1/48 plane and it will fly, though not to controled into the nieghbors house , catching her cat on fire, dad catching our tails on fire but man was it funny. Of coarse setting the Enterprise loose into the lake and opening fire with bb guns was a little more safe.
When I was a kid I had built the old Lindberg Blue Devil Destroyer.
One winter we had a lot of rain and the ditches around the yard were wide anyway… so out came the destroyer and the .177 pellet gun! [:D]Oh boy that was fun but after an hour of receiving heavy enemy fire theold gal just wasn’t boyant anymore.[:(][:(][:(]
Da. da. daaaaa
da. da. daaaa
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(thats Taps by the way!)
so now that everyone is crying…[:(][:D]
I must admit I strapped my fair share of rockets to planes and cars…I also did some pretty stupid things with a pellet gun…never shot at live ammo though…I did take disposable lighters and shoot em…hit em just right and bam they blow up!
My best one was a 1/72 Hellcat that I glued a bottle rocket in with the fuse coming out the tail wheel. I hung it from a tree (as if in flight) and lit the fuse. When that thing blew all I had left was 2 wings attached to some thread hanging from a branch. I could not find enough pieces to ID the remains. Had to use dental records.
I used to get things called M-80’s in California when I was a kid. They were pretty big and pretty damned noisy.
I stuck one in a 1/35 scale Walker Bulldog tank to simulate a “direct hit” (from what, I have no idea).
When the smoke cleared, there was no tank - only a hole in my neighbors yard the size of half a softball.
I told you those M-80’s were big.
That was probably one of the more “tame” things I did that involved pyrotechnics or flames. The rest you don’t want to know about…trust me.
Cheers
LeeTree
Wow! I thought I was the only one reenacting the battle of Midway in my back yard! I wish I had some of those old planes back… Years ago you could get those little gas cylinders with a tin cap on them (I don’t have any idea what they were really for) and you pierced the cap and got a few seconds of thrust…lots of Me 262s hit trees that way. I remember getting these little 3-4 in cylinders but can’t for the life of me remember where or what they were for.
The little gas cylinders were used in pellet guns. The first pellet gun I had used the gas cylinders to fire BB or .117 cal pellets. It was nothing more than compressed CO2. They made great rocket engines. I placed one on a balsa wood Douglas Skyrocket and fired it off. Never found the aircraft because after the CO2 ran out the aircraft was so high it just sailed away. Could have wound up anywhere.
Did make small houses when I was young and set them on fire. Of course, the toy fire truck always come to the rescue. Dangerous but it was a lot of fun.
Same here J-Hulk! I had a friend who wanted to make a Battlestar Galacttica film. I must have built at least 12 special effects Vipers. There never was a film in the can but they blowed up real good! LOL[:p]