Bertie McBoatface Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 (edited) Hello folks! Remember when: Glue came in tubes? Paint was irrelevant? Health and safety was a nudist magazine (Phwoar!)? Destruction was at least as much fun as creation? Rules were for sissies? Life was for living! I've had a crap week at work where things are just too damn serious. I needed an antidote. Now what worked for me when I was small? I remember now - mayhem!!!! What if? What if this 'what if'... ...had this bit removed and... ...had a hole drilled in it here... ...and another one here... ...so I could make a funnel, which would let me do stuff... ...that Mummy wouldn't like? I was pondering this question with my arch-crony and sidekick, The Cosmic Fish. Sounds like it's time to blow up the world!! Hahahahahahaha! But what with? [Now don't try this at home kiddies. Per and the Fish are trained stuntmen and are ALLOWED to break the rules in the interest of a bloody and blistered good time.] We took some of these... ...and did this... ...and we chuckled when we saw this... ...as we poured this into here... ...until we had this... ...ready to be put into here!!!! We filled the belly tank and sealed the hole then filled the aft fuselage too. The final stage was to fit the fuse... Here! Ready for the party? But wait a cotton-picking minute there Cosmic Fish! There's more! We have a prop job but how about a jet???????? Moving swiftly, I slammed this together... ...in a hurry... ...(Oddly, even though I used Plastic Weld put on with a wallpaper pasting brush, the canopy did not fog!) so that... ...we could install THRUST!!!! So much thrust that we needed reinforcing structure to handle the mighty blast of the rocket head... ...cunningly concealed in here!!! DA DA DAAAAAAAAA!!! Was that enough? Hell no!!!! There was room for a WARHEAD for when the rocket burnt out. A bag of dynamite and other bangin' stuff fits inside the fuselage too... ..waiting for the fuse to be lit... ...when the rocket burns the tail off down to here!!!! The countdown has begun. Tomorrow night we have a MAN PARTY. No screaming women allowed. There will be beer. There will be mayhem, smoke and fire. There will be hysterical giggling and wetting of pants. But today we had testing. There was mayhem, smoke and fire. There was hysterical giggling, though my glorious manpants are dry. Because it was a dry run, geddit??? It looked like this. Ready? The Fish in action with the flame! Oooooh! Aaaah! Phut! No vast explosion today but a satisfying stink. The house smells of EXPLOSIVES. We are MEN so that is A GOOD THING! [beats chest with fists] Tune in tomorrow night for the next exciting episode (but please don't tell the girlfriend because she might shout at us.) Edited November 22, 2011 by per ardua ad ostentationem
Kallisti Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 (edited) Fantastic! Got a video camera? Need to see this in action!!! Edited November 19, 2011 by Kallisti
Bertie McBoatface Posted November 19, 2011 Author Posted November 19, 2011 Fantastic! Got a video camera? Need to see this in action!!! Video is GO! Still photography is GO! Wives and girlfriends are GOING OUT!
sunshine coast Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 You are MAD !!!! Regards Trevor ......
kspriss Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 crackers!! if the tails from the messerschmitt u-2 survive the explosion, let me know?..im in need of a pair for a rebuild on my old italieri u-2! cheers and have fun!! steve
Bertie McBoatface Posted November 19, 2011 Author Posted November 19, 2011 You are MAD !!!! Regards Trevor ...... Well, obviously! crackers!!if the tails from the messerschmitt u-2 survive the explosion, let me know?..im in need of a pair for a rebuild on my old italieri u-2! cheers and have fun!! steve They are not all there either. They were sawn off short to fit, and NOTHING WILL SURVIVE. Probably not even me.
kspriss Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 hehe...thats what i thought...just BE CAREFUL, ok?? steve
Bertie McBoatface Posted November 19, 2011 Author Posted November 19, 2011 (edited) hehe...thats what i thought...just BE CAREFUL, ok??steve OK Mum. "If I wasn't being careful, telling me to be careful wouldn't make me any more careful" Sheldon Cooper. Bazinga! Edited November 19, 2011 by per ardua ad ostentationem
Tim T Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 Bonkers, brilliant, gratuitous and enormous fun. It is so tempting....
Dave Gibson Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 Oh this brings back so many memories. A KeilKraft Hurricane rigged with bangers was my last attempt a few aeons ago. Looking forward to the big bang. Dave
Bertie McBoatface Posted November 19, 2011 Author Posted November 19, 2011 Bonkers, brilliant, gratuitous and enormous fun. It is so tempting.... The best way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Oscar W.
Bertie McBoatface Posted November 19, 2011 Author Posted November 19, 2011 (edited) Oh this brings back so many memories. A KeilKraft Hurricane rigged with bangers was my last attempt a few aeons ago. Looking forward to the big bang. Dave It's dead exciting! We also have some conventional fireworks for the appetizer. Edited November 19, 2011 by per ardua ad ostentationem
AirfixAndy Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 Got me and at the ready !! Funny as !! Andy
Selwyn Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 I feel you might be as nutty as a fruit cake and in need of serious psyco examination doing this! Saying that - can you delay the show until I get there?!!! Selwyn PS My personal cunning plan is that when I finally pop my clogs and shuffle off this mortal coil, my body will be cremated, ashes then packed in a the head of a large firework rocket and blasted in a shower of pretty colours into the ether. But looking at this I may opt for a vertical launch 1/32 scale F104 Starfighter!
HOUSTON Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 BEST Giggle I have all day... No MOM it wasn't ME...
jynski Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 That brings back memories. Might be a good idea to do at a contest to liven things up. The club in Charlotte, NC had a catapult at one of their contest to see which model flew the fartherest. Tanks flew the fartherest
Steve27752 Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 Oh dear, I remember doing this when I was YOUNG! Another idea is to run a line from a upstairs window and slide the model down it, and watch it detonate as it flies down.
avro683 Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 It's dead exciting! We also have some conventional fireworks for the appetizer. In front of the FIRE???? Tony
Selwyn Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 It's dead exciting! We also have some conventional fireworks for the appetizer. Nothing personal, but can I just say it may not be sensible to store your fireworks in front of your fire?!!! Selwyn
Vulcanicity Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 Oh, wow. I remember you telling me about this when we met at Telford. I didn't think you'd actually do it! Good luck, I bet you'll have a whale of a time!!!
Dr.Jellyfingers Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 Got to get some video's up, need to see what happens.....tooo much excitement.........pants wet!!!!!!!!!!! Proper fruit-loop but I'd love to be there!!! Si.
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