Firecrackers and other stupid things...

shrikes

Member since
November 2003
From: Manila, Philippines

Firecrackers and other stupid things...

Posted by shrikes on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:50 AM

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.) Big Smile [: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. Whistling [:-^]

Blackadder: This plan's as cunning as a fox that used to be Professor of cunning at Oxford University but has now moved on and is working with the U.N at the high commission of cunning planning

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wroper11

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February 2003
From: Back home in Blanchard

Posted by wroper11 on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:04 PM

Dude sounds like fun! Wink [;)]

I can't wait for the 4th of July next year.

We get good fireworks here in Oklahoma!!! Tongue [:P]

Wroper

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J-Hulk

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February 2003
From: Tochigi, Japan

Posted by J-Hulk on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:10 PM

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...

~Brian

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berny13

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February 2003
From: Panama City, Florida, Hurricane Alley

Posted by berny13 on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:13 PM

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.

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:40 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by berny13

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.

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erush

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May 2003
From: USA, GA

Posted by erush on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:41 PM

So what's stupid about that?? Big Smile [:D]

That's FUN!! Wink [;)]

* 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 Black Eye [B)]

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. Cool [8D]

BTW the General Lee did some stunts worthy of the show before going down in flames Big Smile [:D]

Eric

Hi, I'm Eric and I'm a Modelholic too. I think I have PE poisioning.

"Friendly fire...isn't"

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lizardqing

Member since
July 2003
From: Dahlonega, Georgia

Posted by lizardqing on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:53 PM

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.

Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop

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wroper11

Member since
February 2003
From: Back home in Blanchard

Posted by wroper11 on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:51 PM

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! Big Smile [:D]

Oh boy that was fun but after an hour of receiving heavy enemy fire theold gal just wasn't boyant anymore. Sad [:(]

Da. da. daaaaa
da. da. daaaa
da.da.da
da.da.da
da.da.da
da.de.daaaa

(thats Taps by the way!)
so now that everyone is crying... Sad [:(]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 5:12 PM

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!

HEHEHE

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RAF120

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March 2003
From: Exit 7a NJ Turnpike

Posted by RAF120 on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 5:27 PM

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.

Trevor Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket?

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 5:58 PM

LOL on halloween i took some crapped models i built like 9 years ago, stuffed m-80's and cherry bombs in them and boom a mushroom cloud!!!

oh and i stuffed some lighter fluid into a crapped plane and threw a broken zippo at it. zippo didnt break too much

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leemitcheltree

Member since
January 2003
From: Washington State

Posted by leemitcheltree on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:35 PM

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

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:27 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by wroper11

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! 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
da.da.da
da.da.da
da.da.da
da.de.daaaa

(thats Taps by the way!)
so now that everyone is crying...

Wroper

Ya, I used to do this same thing when I was a kid, growing up on Lake Champlain. There's part of that Lake known as "Plastic Bottom Bay" Big Smile [:D]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:31 PM

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.

Matt

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berny13

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February 2003
From: Panama City, Florida, Hurricane Alley

Posted by berny13 on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:06 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by hobs701

I remember getting these little 3-4 in cylinders but can't for the life of me remember where or what they were for.
Matt

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.

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Dwight Ta-ala

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July 2003
From: Philippines

Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Thursday, November 20, 2003 1:17 AM

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.

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Woody

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December 2002
From: Third rock from the sun.

Posted by Woody on Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:11 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by J-Hulk

Absolutely!
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 decases later!

Of course, the earier days certainly featured the ocassional bottle rocket up the tailpipe af some old and tired kit, too.
Too bad I didn't get those on film, too...

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 Tongue [:P]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 20, 2003 7:21 AM

The little CO2 capsules were originally designed to charge soda syphons.

Later they became the power source for early paintguns - Until we discovered 20 Oz CO2 Bottles.

Now, if you strapped one of those baby's to a 1/72 B-36.....

(Not that I'm suggesting that anybody should try!)

Cheers,

Rob M.

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Jeeves

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February 2003
From: Saratoga Springs, NY

Posted by Jeeves on Thursday, November 20, 2003 7:34 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by B-36

Ya, I used to do this same thing when I was a kid, growing up on Lake Champlain. There's part of that Lake known as "Plastic Bottom Bay"

Heya B-36....

Where on Lake Champlain did you grow up?? I'm from Plattsburgh originally....spent most of my boyhood on the lake as well Smile [:)]

Mike

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Lufbery

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December 2002
From: Harrisburg, PA

Posted by Lufbery on Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:46 AM

Maybe we should rate this thread NC-17 to keep the kiddies out. Wink [;)]

Regards,

-Drew

-Drew

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shrikes

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November 2003
From: Manila, Philippines

Posted by shrikes on Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:56 AM

Shame, shame... Bad Influences, the whole lot of you! who started this thread anyhow?!? Big Smile [:D]

It reminds me of that movie a few years back - October Sky, i think it was called. This kid wanted to become a rocket scientist and his first rocket was a plastic model filled with gunpowder tied to his mom's fence. More like a grenade than a rocket. Blew the fence apart... hahaha!

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allan

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June 2003
From: Cavite, Philippines

Posted by allan on Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:09 AM

Great thread, Shrikes. Reminiscing those heady days, huh?

Ive had my share of firecrackers. I wanted to get "realistic" gunpowder soot (you cant get more realistic than this) on my heavy cruiser so I lit up some sparklers beside it. I was gonna astound and awe my friends with the result of this cutting edge approach. Apparently (and unfortunately), it was too close that a glowing chunk fell onto it, burning right through the deck.

No bucks, no Buck Rogers

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nkm1416@info.com.ph

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September 2003
From: Philippines

Posted by nkm1416@info.com.ph on Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:02 AM

Hey Shrikes it's a good thing you brought this out! To think at that time I thought I was the only one doing it. It was real FUN. What I did then was collect the blackpowder from the firecrackers and stuff it inside my broken Mosquito and light the fuse. No big bang but there's a big flash and thick mushroom of smoke. I hate to throw my models even the broken ones so a lot of them made their exits this way on new years' eves.

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berny13

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February 2003
From: Panama City, Florida, Hurricane Alley

Posted by berny13 on Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:28 AM

At least you didn't do what my dad did when he was young. He threw a firecracker down the hole in an outhouse. Blew the whole thing apart. Censored [censored]

every where. My grandfather made him dig a new one and build another outhouse without any help. Dad said it took him several days to do the job. And he thought I was bad for putting firecrackers in old models, just to watch them blow up.

Berny

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shrikes

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November 2003
From: Manila, Philippines

Posted by shrikes on Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:40 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by nkm1416@info.com.ph

Hey Shrikes it's a good thing you brought this out! To think at that time I thought I was the only one doing it. It was real FUN. What I did then was collect the blackpowder from the firecrackers and stuff it inside my broken Mosquito and light the fuse. No big bang but there's a big flash and thick mushroom of smoke. I hate to throw my models even the broken ones so a lot of them made their exits this way on new years' eves.

Hehehe... Betcha it was one of them 5stars that the "sintaron ni judas" (Judas' Belt) and "sawa"s are made of, huh? *LMAO* Ah... kids are dumb (it takes one to know one Dunce [D)]

)! What's it they say: "Youth is wasted on the young"? Maybe now that we're older it's time to get our youth back! Evil [}:)]

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Bossman

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December 2002

Posted by Bossman on Thursday, November 20, 2003 11:50 AM

Did anyone ever pull a model tank across a street with a string - in front of an unsuspecting vehicle.....

No - I didn't think so - who would ever do a thing like that. Besides - you would probably have to be prepared to run your butt off after the driver stopped and started to chase you. But that would never happen

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Lufbery

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December 2002
From: Harrisburg, PA

Posted by Lufbery on Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:12 PM

October Sky is a fantastic movie! One of those rare flicks I can share with my whole family and not have somebody turned off because it's too violent or too chick-flicky.

Regards,

-Drew

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wroper11

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February 2003
From: Back home in Blanchard

Posted by wroper11 on Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:17 PM

Hey Berny,
Found that balsa thing in my backyard a few years back. It was well weathered from a long flight!!!

Wroper

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berny13

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February 2003
From: Panama City, Florida, Hurricane Alley

Posted by berny13 on Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:56 PM

Wroper

Send me a picture of it. At least that way I can prove I built something that would fly. Laugh [(-D]

Berny

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Jim Barton

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Posted by Jim Barton on Friday, November 21, 2003 5:31 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by J-Hulk

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...

Wouldn't mind seeing some of THOSE videos! Smile [:)]

"Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"

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