QUOTE: Originally posted by M1abramsRules
but that probably wouldn't last too long, would it??
this is for my academy m-10. I am doing audie murphy's one-man stand where the td is on fire. I am going to use, hopefully, a smoke generator, and some lights inside the hull for the "on fire" simulation. and maybe play a tape of the .50 cal firing. IDK about the last one
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For my last contest back in sept trember I did a car chase scene in 1/25 scale based on a cartoon called Lupin III. The lead car had a guy sticking out of the roof of an old Fiat with a .50cal mount. used a bit of cotton on the tip of the barrel colored with Testors signal light amber fort the muzzel flash.
The chase care was a datsun 210 with a a guy leaning out of the windo fireing a bazooka at the chase car. The "conn trail" for the projecxtile was white cotton and wire.
Now hears the kicker. The chase car wired to the innards I took from a toy jet plane i bought for $5 dollar at Family Dollar or Dollar General store [they both sell the same plane with engine and machine gun sounds with wired remote]. This gave the lead car machine gun sounds and a jet engine sound depending on which button the observer pressed on the wired remote which had a cord which ran under the dio. The jet egine exhaust and headlights of the car also lite up.
The second car was wired to the innards of an old PT cruiser toy hidden underneath the dio. It gave it alarm, engine, and horn sounds. Plus the dern thing even played three differnt songs with working head lights! I won best diorama.
The buttoms made it interactive which was in my opinion a modeling first. You may not won't people touching you dio nether did I but it's okay because they only touch the remote. I put up a sign not to touch the dio only the buttons. Using the guts from an old toy eliminates the cassete which would eventually run out unless it's on a loop. Besides the interactiveness is a welcome change at a model show where everything is meant to to be "don't touch". I hop-e you like this idea and it doesn't really require much electronics knowledge. Most of my "innards" were assembled using a hot glue gun and any soldering i did was minimal. Hope this helps. When i get a digital camera [hopefully soon] i'll post pics.