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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: poopster on November 26, 2002, 06:12:38 PM
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This hobby needs no explanation :D
(http://www.swampworks.com/images/Kit-Bism-4.JPG)
This is the Bismark, 67 inches long, 4 operational turrets with 8 operational guns. Fires BB's. Comes with bilge pumps for obvious reasons.
Check out this thread:
http://agw.warbirdsiii.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&postid=150187#post1 50187
They have a local chapter, going to check it out :)
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Okay...THAT is seriously cool.
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Now who didn't dream of something like this as a kid... I gotta see this in person!
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I used to put Estes rocket engines into my jet models, probably wasn't as cool as this though.
BTW, I never got much more than a melted f-16, melted f-14, or a melted f-4 when the show was done.
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I introduced my old mossie model to M80 once. Picture pieces of model flying up to 20 ft high. :D
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used to stick lady fingers in model ships, smear the model part trees with glue and light
the plastic tree would bubble and smoke like crazy until it dropped a fireball down onto the model. after a couple of bomb hits, I'd stand back and wait for the fireworks :)
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I stopped blowing up models after I used up all my Dads M80s.
Did the Estes rocket thing, experimented with how many things I could actually attach them rockets to.
Best one:
Had a heavy duty, screw together model of a P51, with an adjustable elevator. Cut a hole in the lower scoop aft side, attached a rocket motor angled aft and downward, and for good measure locked the elevator up, and set off the motor.
Dang P51 model jumped up to head height and did loops damn near inside itself, about 8" from my face. I was so stunned I couldnt move to back away. In retrospect, very funny and I would pay good money to have a movie of that.
dago
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Don't know if this is related to model building, but one time years ago when I was going to college (1976), I built a rocket using a paper towel tube, a cone shaped drinking cup for a nosecone, with a small black powder payload (about the size of a golf ball) as a warhead. Used two Estes rocket motors in the other end of the tube, and made "wings" and vertical and horizontal stabs out of cardboard. Then painted it red with black and white alternating stripes on the nosecone.
One of my dorm mates supplied the launching pad (standard rocket launch pad). I used about a ten foot long strip of black powder sprinkled on masking tape for a fuse...the tape attached to the rocket motors. We decided we would launch from one of the boulders in a creek bed in the woods. This was a popular swimming hole area, and there were lots of people around.
We let people around us know what we were about to do, so they could watch out. I lit the fuse and the rocket takes off to about 30 feet in the air, then does a sharp nose over and runs like a cruise missle down the creek, almost hitting one of the bystanders...was kinda funny watching that thing chasing him. Then the "missle" changes course and heads directly towards a fraternity creek party about 100 yards down the creek at a level ten ft. altitude. Luckily, it hit the water well before reaching them, and the "warhead" did not go off. (The warhead detonator was to be the chute ejecting charge that fires upward at the end of the rocket motor's cycle.) The Estes rockets burned for quite awhile in the water and produced a great deal of smoke.
It was quite a spectacle, and very intense for about two minutes. One guy there who witnessed it even wanted to know how I did that...I think he was an engineering student. The trajectory of the rocket couldn't have been better, as it managed to avoid the many trees near the creek. I had no idea what it would do, but it sure was fun. I thought it would go straight up and then explode.
DISCLAIMER: Don't try this experiment yourselves; black powder is a Class A Explosive and extremely dangerous to handle. It can be set off by percussion, i.e. drop the can on the ground and it could go off, or by static electricity or a spark. Never smoke while working around black powder.
I was young and dum back then, and lucky.;) We took a picture of the lift off, and man, I wish I had that picture today.
Les
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I made several balsa models (the type where you had to cut your own balsa with a pattern, not the pre-cut weinie models that they have today) then promptly took a couple of them to the top of our house and put lighter fluid on them, wound up the internal rubber band, lit them on fire, and threw them off the roof...the first was spectacular! The second caught a gust of wind and came back to the roof at the eve and lodged there, burning furiously. You've never seen a 13 y/o get down off a roof and get a water hose so fast....
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I made several balsa models (the type where you had to cut your own balsa with a pattern
You used a pattern? Rookie :p
-Sik
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I was never good at a straight line cut while cutting out 5mm wide spars ;)
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Now who didn't dream of something like this as a kid... I gotta see this in person!
The SouthWest Battle Group is pretty close TahGut, I saw a display of the Jean Bart once at a pasadena R/C show. I was inlove, but also in debt (stupid college! :mad: lol). I'm looking forward to retirement though :)
-Sik
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I built a model of an M1 abrams a few years back and it sat on my desk at work, well it did tell I decided to blow it up with some m80s and film it.
lol Looked great in slowmo...
I think I lost the footage with a reformat though.
:(
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Originally posted by Sikboy
The SouthWest Battle Group is pretty close TahGut, I saw a display of the Jean Bart once at a pasadena R/C show. I was inlove, but also in debt (stupid college! :mad: lol). I'm looking forward to retirement though :)
-Sik
TY Sik, Prado Park.
Looks like no meetings till January though.
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I've seen this before and am really jealous. :)
Along with black cats in the models and pouring paint on the superstructure so the New Jersey would burn then sink, I've also shot many army men with bb guns.
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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.) :)
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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
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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... :o
Talk about my parents being happy when the Cops showed up home.
That's quite a long time ago :)
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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!
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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 ;)
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That game, or sport perhaps, needs dive bombers. Then you'd have a reason to add carriers.
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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
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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. ;)
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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.
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You guys are amatures in stupidity. We used to use PVC piping and bottlerockets to blow our models up bazooka style.
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If I Loose an eye you better have insurance.....
and to save Hitech from troule..
~!WARNING!~
In no way does this thread take responsibility in the unfortinate accident, such as a lost or disablement of a limb or body part or loss of life...Please do no try these unsupervised...In no way is this thread giving ideas on what to do with your spare time, this thread was ment for rembering childhoods...Thank You we now return you to your regular programed forum surfing...
[Please rember that spelling can not always be Perfect]
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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.
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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
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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 :D
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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.
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Yeah...you light them and when they start trying to take off you through them at your best friend :D
Yes, these are the exploding ones...no fun unless they explode ;)
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Yeah Drunky, I got hit right between the eyes with a bottle rocket one time during a "war." Bounced off my head...didn't hurt a bit LOL.
Do you remember the Roman candles they had a few years ago that shot out explosive fire balls? Now those were cool. They shot out a ball like a regular Roman candle, except it exploded like a a cherry bomb. Kinda powerful...only remember them on the market that one year.
You could make a very effective bazooka by fitting 4 of these in the end of a 2" diameter length of copper pipe (about 4' long.) There were about 40 rounds all together, and they lasted about 3 minutes or so. Their firing rate was about the same as a Roman candle.
These were made in China, and I only remember them being available that one year (1985?) Shoulda stockpiled 'em.:D
Les
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ya, we were morons about that stuff too.
1. large firecrackers (not m-80's just the larger legal ones) covered in wax for the frag effect (felt alot like being punched if hit with a large chunk up-close)
2. 'bazooka'- 4" pvc pipe with the rocked launch rail set up inside, use the fireworks rockets that where about the size of the small models, dump the display and load with custom payloads, also remove the fuse and use rocket ignitors and a 9v battery for precise firing (not very accurate but lots of fun)
3. trip wires set to electronicly ignite one bottle rocket (stick removed), fired into a metal tube filled with many others also stick removed. the effect was sorta rocket propelled claymore. the first rocket lights all the others firing them for quit an effect.
4. all this with bb/pellet guns too (including one .22cal air riffle with a very spendy scope['borrowed' from my friends father], and an 'm-19' (full auto bb-gun, used freon as propelent, add says 3k rpm, didn't seem that fast though)
like I said we were fairly stupid looking back. these 'wars' went on for years in the woods, until one of us lost the proverbial eye. he still has the bb loged against his optic nerve restricting half the vision in his right eye. (who the hell thought mom would be right about that 'gonna lose an eye thing')
was pretty scary for awhile there. found out first hand that the county sherrif looks at a bb-gun wound as a gunshot wound. and I felt fairly stupid as they looked at our 'arsenal' and ask us "what the hell were you thinking"
as my friend was still getting checked out and everybody else bailed (so it was just me taking him for help), leaving me to come up with an explaination. the best I could come up with was "it seemed like the thing to do at the time"
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We used to buy firecrackers in Mexico when I was a kid growing up in deep south Texas. They were great. They were made of newspaper and they were folded into triangles and looked like the little paper footballs that you flick across a table when you used to play table football in elementary school. You talk about powerful little suckers. They came in a variety of sizes....some of them were about 8-10 inches long and stuffed full of gunpowder with a little fuse sticking out of the corner. We used to light 'em and flick them off a little bridge in the neighborhood into a small river. The dropoff from the bridge to the water was about 20feet and when those suckers would explode, it would send water up higher than the bridge. After two or three of 'em you couldnt hear anything anymore due to the ringing in your ears.