Hey Crusher! I remember you when you were noob and your post count was 700 lower than mine. Now you're higher than mine by 1000+, amazing how you progress.
Just open the model, go Modules > Sequense editor.
There should appear Bone, Anims and Movement editor thingies for you to use,
From Bones you can create bones and attach verticles to them. Your model should have a main bone, which has all verticles attached to it.
Select Anims and make sure that model has Birth, Stand and Death animations. Stand needs to be looping, others non looping.
Select Stand, go to Movement and select your main bone, select Rotate tool and start to rotate the model.
First and last frame must be identical. There are copy and paste under Frames. Select few spots from that timeline ( so called key frames ) and give them different rotations and you get your tree to rotate.
For death and birth you can use Scale tool and scale main bone so small that model dissapears. Also download Magos Model editor and learn to use particles, so you can add some cool looking impact effects to death aniamtion.
You have an MPQ editor? If so open war3x.mpq and browse it's contents. I'm not exactly sure about the location of the images but it should be there for every race. Then it's just a simple matter of "over linkining" the .BLP's with the Import Editor.
It'll be good practice at least, I did a bunch of practice boards the last few weeks but that's a bit different than actual repair. It's pretty obvious what's going on with those, so it's not very hard to trace the leads, and they aren't designed with faults so
Site is peaking on traffic for the recipes - Sundays are always the big days and we are 200 plus unique visitors an hour right now and it will be like that probably be around 3000 total on the site all day maybe more if Google desires it LOL
Anyway I have a power bench that I don't actually know how to use, but I'm assuming I can take the battery out and power it directly from that to see if any of them turn on.
If you had kids like me that grew up in that era you could just go to your closet and fish out one of the cords from the cord bag. I bet I have everyone of those cord connectors plus some