[Bearkiller72]

One Guy Fawkes night, a friend of mine turned up with his Airfix Saturn V stuffed to the gunwales with gunpowder. He had attached it to a launchrail, made form a plastic curtain rail, which we fixed to a wooden gatepost. Having lit the blue touchpaper and retired, we stood back to admire the launch - but all we saw was an enormous amount of orange flame shooting out of the underneath, and a Saturn V becoming gradually shorter as the bottom end melted and it slid back down the curtain rail. We abandoned it to its fate and went off for a pint. About an hour later we discovered that the gatepost was on fire...

:cheers:

Wakawaka! :lol: Reminds me of our own trials of creating a "rocket-projectile"... luckily we could extinguish the fire before the whole field erupted in flames! :roll:

I once had a Revell 1:72 F-4B Phantom I painted to resemble a F-4C in SEA scheme. I drilled two holes into the fuselage side and attached a string to it.
Then I started to spin around, having the string with the model attached close to me. Upon "catching enough speed" I let go gradually on the string, using it as a primitive "Whip-Flyer".
You know what? That little Phucker really straightened itself out and followed my "commands" to a limited degree - climbing an diving worked pretty well, given the model's small size.

But I have to agree to the other posters, yuo'd be having a hard time turning a plastic model kit into a R/C one.

But, never give up, there's always a "world's first!" :wink: