Author Topic: If you blew up your plastic models with firecrackers..... (Read 1937 times)

bigUC · « **Reply #15 on:** November 27, 2002, 09:59:58 AM »

A friend had a coworker in the Army (no, not yours!) who made his own new years eve fireworks from 2 M-72 antitank rocket motors. It was a kind of disappointment since it just sped into the night, prolly being a hazard to any air-traffic around. Noone ever saw it again. (Except for the man in the moon.)

Wlfgng · « **Reply #16 on:** November 27, 2002, 10:14:29 AM »

hmm.. too much frozen water round here right now but that is too cool. I may have to work on a river model or ice model...

only the price of the toys change

Saw at Work · « **Reply #17 on:** November 27, 2002, 10:38:57 AM »

uhh I remember burning a whole yard in the neighbourhood when I was a kid... filled a 4WD Wrangler Jeep I had built with a balloon filled with Zippo lighter fluid, and a HUGE firecracker... it didn't end up like I thought it would. I was spotted by an old lady in front of the yard...

Talk about my parents being happy when the Cops showed up home.

That's quite a long time ago

Heater · « **Reply #18 on:** November 27, 2002, 12:00:46 PM »

Use to take models of Carriers and use black power as the ballast then put them in the pool and shoot bottle rockets at them until one actually went in the the elevator portal that was open on the side of the carrier and exploded inside the carrier, the explosion blew the tiles of the side of the pool, Man was my dad pissed.

The other option is to take model planes (last one I did was an F-16) and build a solid propellant rocket motor into it while building coating the rocket motor in wax first then packing a plastic bag of gasoline in to the intake and launching it at about a 50-60 degree angle over a lake...looks cool as hell at night when the charge goes off!

LePaul · « **Reply #19 on:** November 27, 2002, 12:12:48 PM »

Probably the funniest pyro-techics incidents I've witness was when Abunabi and I went to the local Military Surplus store shopping for stuff for our upcoming paintball battle. Abu bought some neat shaped smoke bombs and we were on our way...

So, paintball day comes, we're getting our butts kicked and Abu decides to pop smoke and run. And it was a LOT of smoke...Yellow. One of the older guys sniffs deeply and goes "WOW...this reminds me of my war protesting days in the 70's"...turns out ole Abunabi bought tear gas and saved the day

AtmkRstr · « **Reply #20 on:** November 27, 2002, 02:20:24 PM »

That game, or sport perhaps, needs dive bombers. Then you'd have a reason to add carriers.

capt. apathy · « **Reply #21 on:** November 28, 2002, 07:36:27 AM »

most of us loved doing this sort of thing as kids. the sad thing is if our kids did it today they would probably be flagged as potential terrorists

Kieran · « **Reply #22 on:** November 28, 2002, 09:44:32 AM »

Byron Originals used to put on a 5th scale re-enactment using WWII planes, trains, aircraft carriers, tanks, the whole smear.

Yes, models were injured in the making of the production.

Hawklore · « **Reply #23 on:** November 28, 2002, 10:17:17 AM »

Fire Cracker in between the legs of army men...

Fire Crackers in the plastic tanks....{Awesome}

Bottle Rokets out of pipes like mortars.....

Bottle Rockets into the pool like torpedoes...{awesome}

Bottle Rokets at the face of brothers.......

Fire crackers under water like depth charges.{Awesome}

Pine Straw hoses with army men in them.....

Yeah still experimenting need to go get some more fire crackers

M80s illeagal down here....but several of those firecrackers could do the job.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #24 on:** November 28, 2002, 04:29:39 PM »

You guys are amatures in stupidity. We used to use PVC piping and bottlerockets to blow our models up bazooka style.

Hawklore · « **Reply #25 on:** November 28, 2002, 05:10:37 PM »

If I Loose an eye you better have insurance.....

and to save Hitech from troule..

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Pollock · « **Reply #26 on:** November 28, 2002, 10:40:19 PM »

I got a scar on my upper left thigh from plastic fragment of my brothers model of the tripitz we blew up in an old wash tub when i was 12.

MRPLUTO · « **Reply #27 on:** November 29, 2002, 09:47:18 AM »

It's hard to come up with something that hasn't been mentioned, but...

When I was about 12 - 14 I remember taking my B-17 model and propping it up almost vertically below our tree house. Back in those days (1970), McDonalds' straws burned easily, dropping little balls of burning, smoking plastic. They looked just like tracers. To add to the effect, they made a loud, unusual "zzzzzzip", "zzzzzzip" sound as they dropped.

So, obviously, the young MRPLUTO stood 15 feet above the B-17, which pointed almost straight up at him, simulating an attack from 12 o'clock high. I'd lite up the straw and begin "shooting" the Fortress with balls of flaming plastic. The tracer effect was remarkably realistic and cool.

Then, as now, I aimed for the wing root and cockpit.

I believe McDonalds' straws are now made of a much less flammable plastic, so you can't try this at home, even if you wanted to.

MRPLUTO VMF-323 ~Death Rattlers~ MAG-33

Drunky · « **Reply #28 on:** November 29, 2002, 04:17:22 PM »

As a kid we played with firecrackers as all kids are wont to do. We even had "wars" with bottle rockets, throwing them at each other until someone got hurt serious enough to stop. Hell, it only happened twice a year (playing with fireworks) so we really didn't mind.

Anyway, someone found an old tether ball pole...you know, the pole in the ground or a old tire filled with cement which had a rubber ball attached by string to the top of the pole. Well this one was out of the ground or cement from where it originally was so thought it would be cool to use it as a bazooka.

Well, we were in the wooded lot next to my friends house and so I take the pole and hold it over my shoulder and someone else loads a rocket in the back. This is one of the bigger bottle rockets...not like the old little ones you could buy a dozen for a quarter.

It's gettint late, it's a little cold and dark so we figure this should be a good show. Someone lights the rocket and whhhooooossshhh, of it goes...out of the woods, across the street and at the neighbors house.

We can see the smoke trail leading up to the house but we can't see the rocket. We can't tell if it hit the house, broke a window...nothing, until the rocket exploded inside the house. The flash bounces off of several walls and we could now see the hole in the window where it hit.

We took off running the other way further into the woods and never mentioned it to anyone till now

Wlfgng · « **Reply #29 on:** November 29, 2002, 04:23:06 PM »

throw pop-bottle rockets at each other ???

nah.. we used tubes for the hand-held launcher effect..
the only stipulation was that everyone had to wear eye protection.

and yes.. the explosve BlackCat ones... not the sissy pfffft ones.