While I was in the Marine Corps I had to move around a lot. If one’s a modeler, he sets up shop the best he can and continues his craft…but what to do with the finished models when he has to leave.
One option is to give them to friends, which I did, but I still had a few left over. One was a 1/72 B-52. I spent weeks putting it together and it hung on the ceiling for a good eight months, but then it was time to leave. No body wanted it. So what to do, what to do. I know!
I put model cement on the back of the wings and tails and lit it on fire. I was standing on the top floor of my barracks, freinds down below with cameras at the ready. I let lose and my mighty Buff “flew” for a good thirty yards before coming in for a hard landing.
The interesting part about it was, though burned (the fire went out a little before landing) the only thing damaged was the nose, which was crushed. Flung nearly a hundred feet and crashing onto concrete, it had all it’s parts still attached; wings, engines, even the aux tanks.
Suggested thread: What is the craziest thing you’ve done to an old model you don’t want any more. (Must be 18 or older. Kids don’t try this at home. Professional drivers on closed course)
These are my next ‘fire flies.’ J/K
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Higgens - you are one sick puppy, but I like it and I’d have given a lot to see your BUFF make its first memorable flight. That would have been a good sight. How did the pictures turn out?
I remember those days…a model, a match, and a gleam in your eye…heh heh heh
I think the most (destructive) fun I’ve had AFTER making a model consisted of several tanks and a bunch of planes - living in California many years ago before fireworks were outlawed - we used to get the most amazing firecrackers - some were HUGE- the poor planes and tanks took a very long time indeed to give up the ghost. It sometimes took hours for ALL of the bits to become unrecognizable. And did we have fun? Heh, heh, heh - you betcher a#% we did.
Well, Semper Fi, Higgens
Have a good one
LeeTree
Well, I was all of about 10 when I tried this…
I had a Hasegawa 1/72 RF-101C Voodoo partialy built and it was kind of frustrating me and I lost intrest. I kept it around as a test bed for experimenting.
One sunny day in August, I thought “What if I could bypass glue completely?”
I took my Voodoo out on the patio, tacked its wing piece onto the fuselage with masking tape and proceeded to aim the sun at it through a magnifying glass.
The result, a nice bubbly line of molten plastic and emensely heat warped sections of wing and fuselage immediately adjoining it.
What I learned: the next time I do a sci-fi subject, I now know the perfect way to simulate a laser cutting beam attack!
Out to the farm with a .22. Teh Sherman looked like it got punched by an 88. I was very disappointed whith my cousin. The Revell FDR floting in the creek and he put one right in the middlwe of the flight deck. First shot and it went down like a rock.
Semper Fi