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....with so many new members lately i thought i'd drag up 1 of my most favorite threads to warm us from the winter doldrums!! i can hardly wait for new replies!!!
Just read through this thread and had some great laughs, Tom. Glad to see I wasn't the only screwball who destroyed all his models as a kid. Most of mine were WWII aircraft and met their demise at the expense of my Ricochet BB gun, hanging from a tree in my backyard. We had very strict rules on fireworks in Canada in the '50s so my friends and I would have to make the occasional daylight raid across the St. Clair River to Michigan. My uncle was a Customs officer at the Port Lambton ferry dock so we would trip across under the guise of buying some American chocolate bars, Mounds, Almond Joy etc. and hide the fireworks in our underwear. Those were the days of no border security and freedom of movement back and forth. I'm sure my Uncle Stu probably knew what we were up to, lol.
Probably my biggest sacrificial lamb was a large-scale PT109, motorized, with triple screws, the last of my stash. My sister and I waited for a calm day on the river, loaded it up with a string of firecrackers, lit the long fuse we had rigged up and sent it off the end of the dock. The goal was to pepper it with as many BBs as possible before all those firecrackers blew it to smithereens. It was spectacular, one explosion after another blowing bits of the deck, armament and JFK and his crew skyward. So, so politically incorrect now I know.
And that was the end of my modelling days until I picked the hobby up again a couple of years ago. Needless to say, with the cost of models now, none of my projects will suffer the same fate, at least at my hands. Maybe there will be some grandkids down the road to carry on the tradition.
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I tried to extract it that way too. Ended up using my dads electric drill to bore down to it. Needless to say my recovery wasn't too successful. Ended up destroying some of the bricks since the resin-plastic became brittle when cold and chipped very easily. So I waited until the weather was warm enough and i was able to pull the plane from its murky grave. Boy I was weird when I was a kid! 
only kidding!! 
those are only 2 examples from my kiddy archive!!!! yes, i'm still warped, but i grew up, but darn that was fun to do as a kid, & thinking of the hi jinx still makes for great laughs!!!! how about your delinquency??? got a model tragedy / experiment to share when you were a snot nosed punk????
