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Hello Dakka,

yesterday morning my familiy and me went out after the ususal firecracking and rocketlaunching of our local neighborhood in the night from the 31.12. to the 01.01. ...
we did a light treasurehunting to search and find leftovers from that massive firecracking and rocketlanching we had the night before.
mark you my wife and me looked after our three sons like eagles to not touch seemingly life crackers so we made sure that only spent things were collected.

these plastic caps/ lids and other plastic stuff i want to create some scratchbuilding with...

the following pics are a first gathering of materials i washed and sorted for further use and also presenting them to you fellow dakkas so you might help me with some ideas as to what might be built frome these parts...

in the evening/night there will be a new set of pics as this is only the first lot of the whole treasure we found...


so here goes :










well as a follower of another thread you might recognize the parts i have waited for long to finish certain aspects of my airship...^^


cheers dakka, your vik

I spy propellers!

Wish I had thought of this. Genius.

first prize shrike!

and now go and have some ideas about the rest of em pics here...and rember family friendly please....^^

lol


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i guess mr burning, as far as cleaning up work goes, there is lots of stuff liing around your hood that could be obtained... in fact if i am not misstaken we will be seeing that ugly brown stuff that the cardboard tends to develope into when soaking wet for the rest of next week until the cleaning crew sorts this mess out...

Rocket noses, Boilers, props, Domes/portholes.

Just brought he kids some capsule toys form Toys R Us, Just so I can have the capsules

Mr. Burning wrote:Just brought he kids some capsule toys form Toys R Us, Just so I can have the capsules

nice.
I agree, rockets. But then how would you go about steampunk rockets?

Mr. Burning wrote:Rocket noses, Boilers, props, Domes/portholes.
Just brought he kids some capsule toys form Toys R Us, Just so I can have the capsules

Haha that's exactly what I was thinking.

rockets was also obvious to me, i also thought about chimneys of some sort...and even tanks made from those cones as well and also termites...all but in due time tho...

Just brought he kids some capsule toys form Toys R Us, Just so I can have the capsules

have done that also on nummerous accounts. i even fought my urges to buy crappy toys for scratchbuilding materials....one has to have standards tho...

vik

and wait what else of stuff i will present later on^^
we will then move from round and cones to squares...

Make a termite! that'd be so cool!

Viktor von Domm wrote:rockets was also obvious to me, i also thought about chimneys of some sort...and even tanks made from those cones as well and also termites...all but in due time tho...

Just brought he kids some capsule toys form Toys R Us, Just so I can have the capsules

have done that also on nummerous accounts. i even fought my urges to buy crappy toys for scratchbuilding materials....one has to have standards tho...

vik

and wait what else of stuff i will present later on^^
we will then move from round and cones to squares...

In fact I brought a 1:76 Comet tank today as well, just for the wheels.

at mr. burning, what does a comet tank look like?

at shrike, the termite is a definte, as i wanted to do that for my nidkilla earthangels for a long time, will be a stand in for a drop pod then...like not hitting speeze mahrines from above but instead spitting them from the ground...^^

and now for the aforementioned second installment of materials retrieved during my families treasure hunt...

for better reference i had to put a trsutful and standfast cadian footloger in the mids of the pics....now :


these my wife brought me back from a light airing in the stil brisk late day today...i am very proud about here as she sometimes takes a refreshing interest in my hobby^^ and sometimes not but not today^^










some of these scream diarama base to me...or moster base or even heavy weaponbase...^^





and now i can only quote han solo as i have to pull that line here:

"look at the size of that thing...:"




and if you thought thats that and over with that and on for something new....your right and it is even bigger and i will have to come up with something really cool for that here...:




thats a new base size for sure...really i have to strongly recommend searching the junk leftovers from newyears eve to all biulders and meddlers... there is so much strong and nice stuff liing around these days...

i feel quite privileged to have all that stuff for future projects...hope i can pull something good of from all of that stuff tho...


cheers, vik

I spy some firework fuse covers, I used some of those many many years ago as some kind of rocket engines for an Orky creation, can be pretty useful.

lots of cool stuff there mate !

at wib, your right, if i would built and play orcs i would be heavy on work on lots of scratchbuilts by now as the coneshpaed parts look invitingly orish...but alas i am now an IG type and i have to come up with some other ideas, but fear not if i ever came aroud to do some rocketlauncher then they will be built with these thingies...

at neil thx mate, will be fun no mater what it will turn out to...

vik

see the pics below where you posted "look at the size of that thing"?
see the "propellers"?
blue-tac the propellers onto the other thing, maybe make a housing ouut of plasticard and stick two of those onto the back of the zeppelin?
As you know I can't post pics to illustrate my idea- hopefully you'll understand it...^^

i will see if i can do that and show you some effort in the evening... by the way whats your bedtime time? just curiuos as your a regular floater here on the board and i wonder how you do it^^, or are you posting under your bedsheats? lol

vik


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and one of these days we have to solve that problem of yours here on dakka as you have to be able to post pics man...seems kinda waste of mind to not show so much here...

vik again...

I'm "meant" to go to bed at about 10:00 on weekends, about 9:00 on schooldays.
I normally get into bed at about 11:00 and 9:30-10:00.
Sometimes I can't get to sleep or am waiting for a reply on a thread so I stay on 'till about 12:00.


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I'm one of those people who can't get to sleep without reading.
I get through about a book a week, but sometimes I just can't get to sleep.
My book reading records (that I can remember)
reading LOTR in 3 days (VERY bored)
reading rynn's world in 2 days (on holiday, not much to do)
reading skulduggery pleasant (quite a good read for the more bright teens- then youd get the jokes and such) through this christmas and boxing day. (I unwrapped it and all my presents- a lot less than everyone else coz' I got an xbox), so I sat down and read. For hours. While munching on some chocolates I got from an uncle.

if i see you reading LOTR in just 3 days i would guess you only read the plot and not the whole artful poetry and stuff? i heard lots of people are capable of that crime...even the friends that brought me to tolkiens world never did read the poetry... such a shame, hope you digested it tho nevertheless, and i would recommend to reread the trilogy and then the silmarillion as it is a nice and touching piece of literature. did you now that tolkien liked the translated german version of his texts more than the english one? funny isn´t it?

and i tend to stay up when i am desperate for an asnwer too^^...

vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:if i see you reading LOTR in just 3 days i would guess you only read the plot and not the whole artful poetry and stuff? i heard lots of people are capable of that crime...even the friends that brought me to tolkiens world never did read the poetry... such a shame, hope you digested it tho nevertheless, and i would recommend to reread the trilogy and then the silmarillion as it is a nice and touching piece of literature. did you now that tolkien liked the translated german version of his texts more than the english one? funny isn´t it?

and i tend to stay up when i am desperate for an asnwer too^^...

vik

I read the poetry, an liked the character of tom...then got mad at peter jackson for not including him in the films.
I was going to read the simarillion, but just never got round to it...and I didn't really understand half the stuff in LOTR because i was 9 or 10 at the time...
But I have a lot of books in my room about tolkein...I even have a tolkein dictionary-type thing, which lists all the creatures and stuff A-Z.
Did YOU know that there's this guy:
http://www.tolkienprofessor.com/

nice find, and have known that more people on earth have read LOTR than the bible? well go figure as in china no one would read that for sure so there is your majority of tolkien readers^^

and yep, i was also quite angry about tom not being included and even more as he even wasnt inculded in the extended super duper version....and all the other fuss like making aragorn a wussy and stuff and all that not needed facebitting with liv tyler...really i am one of the only ones in my hood^^ thats not satisfied with jacksons work...

there could be a thread as if i dont know there was such a hatethread already^^

vik

Looks like a good haul of free stuff, but I'm going to have to get all autistic and point out that is not a Han Solo line but Wedge Antillies (Cut the chatter, Red 2)

VIVE LA LOTR REVOLUTION!!!

I am pleased with the way he filmed it, and I understand why he didn't just have orcs shoot boromir and run off, instead having an action scene, but he should of gone more in-depth.
He always wanted to do king kong, but wasn't allowed. He did LOTR instead and said he wuld do the hobbit. He then got permission to do KK and made that and got distracted by a load of other films. He's apparently started it now, with martin freeman being bilbo.

I've been searching for ages for some of those cheap plastic prop/copter blades.....any suggestions? for the UK?

A steam punk rocket would most likely use a boiler when the pressure is critical it would explode also using some of the pressure to push its self fowards or are you talking about a rocket for carrying people?

Oh great idea! I wonder if there is still anything laying around in the park here I could scavange...

Looks like the making of a lovely Tau outpost...

argh.... no sir no tau will be engaged by these parts here^^, sorry only joking but i only own about four models of tau so i doubt i will be doing terrain for them...

today i got lucky and got a second one of the last pics black items...together with the first thing i will build a docking station for the airship....this will be something to look forward to...

the sad part is my oldest so told me he saw two more of these things but as we went looking for them they were gone...the citycleaners have done their business...

at earthbeard there must be some old school toystore near you? mostly these helicopter baledes you get with cheap slingshot heli sets for small kids...with a woundup screw made from rubberbands...really i have seen these so often now that i was searching for bldes for the airship i´m creating, but couldn´t be a.....d to by them instead i bid my time trying to scracthbuild or scavange something...

at shrike...

took your fan idea to heart and tried some things during the day...it would look very cool if i could cut cardboard exactly to needed sizes and then arange the bits in a circle...the mocks i did never get to be shot so to post here but maybe tommorow...still have my youngest two kids at home as their kindergarten is still closed...

vik

*grin*
We'll be waiting...
We'll all be waiting...


sorry, couldn't resist.

i could always do a cheap shot and pull the norris card^^

no serioulsy when the younger ones are hacking against each other i feel like an animal trainer in the circus trying like hell to get the tigers not to rip each other appart...even household stuff is sometimes not done on account of pulling them apart...lest hobby stuff...
but the general idea is worth a bigger timeinvestment...so i will definatly do it.only down thing is i am so crappy at cutting things in an accurate way...seems i was bestowed with to left thumbs...

Viktor von Domm wrote:nice find, and have known that more people on earth have read LOTR than the bible? well go figure as in china no one would read that for sure so there is your majority of tolkien readers^^

and yep, i was also quite angry about tom not being included and even more as he even wasnt inculded in the extended super duper version....and all the other fuss like making aragorn a wussy and stuff and all that not needed facebitting with liv tyler...really i am one of the only ones in my hood^^ thats not satisfied with jacksons work...

there could be a thread as if i dont know there was such a hatethread already^^

vik

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