Air gun cartridges

The ones I have are more like 3" long!

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

The ones I have are more like 3" long!

Bury the neck end and have some respectable vertical storage tanks for something.  Maple syrup, maybe, or Tabasco sauce.  

Piece two together and make a propane tank.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

The ones I have are more like 3" long!

John, my dimensions were scale. 
so yours would be 12’

@Forty Rod posted:

Bury the neck end and have some respectable vertical storage tanks for something.  Maple syrup, maybe, or Tabasco sauce.  

That’s a sticky situation 

@pennsyfan posted:

Has anyone ever used these for scenery? I saved a bunch through the years; but now haven’t found a use for them. They are kind of large, 10’ x 3’. 

Ten feet by three feet? Yikes!

@pennsyfan posted:

John, my dimensions were scale.  so yours would be 12’

Yep, but it was too easy a target.   Must be something creative to do with them, maybe flatcar or gondola loads.

@RoyBoy posted:

Ten feet by three feet? Yikes!

 Just imagine how big the airgun is!

That would be a serious torpedo, 3 feet in diameter!

GRJ is feeling his oats today 

For those of you featuring a military and/or nuclear theme in your layout, I'd attach four square fins to the neck, place it on a couple of wood cradles on a (depressed center?) flatcar, lash it down with some scale chain, ...and put some cryptic chalk notes/wishes on its flank.  "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" taken 55 years ago.  But the mind...twisted as some are!...could give it some graffiti that is...how should we say?...more contemporary/appropriate.

Maybe even a Slim Pickens figure waving his cowboy hat while straddling the fire cracker?   

Alternatively, instead of celebrating it on a flatcar, you could bury the sucker about halfway nose-down in somebody's backyard, put a few military/fire department/police emergency vehicles all around the area....lots of flashing red/blue lights....maybe an ITT Products custom sound chip featuring sirens, crowd noises, barking dogs, etc, etc....and a crowd of people surrounding it....harried homeowners, ten-star generals, TV crews, etc., maybe even an ice cream truck, hot dog vendor, ....you know.....all the usual trappings for this sort of event.

Of course, if you're on the more serious side of the hobby.........

BTW....be sure the cartridge is, indeed, empty! 

KD (Lucas Gudinov)

LMAO

Freelance helium cars?   

Now I have a sudden craving for seltzer...

Mitch

Make a rack for them, drill a hole in the tops, and run tubing/piping from one to the other.  Put it outside a building with a tube running from the tanks to the building and it could be used for just about any kind of chemical, gas, etc.

Good flat car load too.

I'm trying to find a purpose for all the plastic casings my ammo comes in and all the various caliber empty shells I have.

Thanks for all the replies, you saved them from the recycle bin!

@Bob Delbridge posted:

 

I'm trying to find a purpose for all the plastic casings my ammo comes in and all the various caliber empty shells I have.

Well, here's a .32ACP that's found a new home in O scale...

Mitch 

Now that you all have mentioned it, I should start saving my brass from the range.  .22 - .45 pistol cartridges could make pretty nice barrels for a toxic waste dump or in railroad talk, an engine shop.  Have to figure out which ones come closet to a 55 gallon barrel .... so to speak.

I reload my shell casings and re-use the plastic crates to store the newly  created ammo.  Sometimes it is fun to have another hobby besides my trains.  I have been trying to get a 1953 TW Transformer going again.  Just as a back up for my ZW, or use it for lighting.