Well, I kind of jumped the gun and painted the tank. I realized it forgot to get the basket finished. Not all the details are glued on yet either. I was looking at my photos of real m60a3 tanks at camp Roberts and other places and if you look at my turret there are dots printed on the side of the turret along the hand rail length. They are quite large and noticeable on the model but they are not on the real tanks. Bummer bummer bummer. So I slid the hand rail off and the smoke launchers, and also deciced I cant stand the tow cable brackets since the real ones are little bent Us that I can make with strip brass so I pulled all them out too. I wound up chiseling off the little spots and sanding the side of the turret again. Got a coat of primer on it tonight and will put a few more on tomorrow and then do some 320 sanding then 400.

Next along, I got my IBU2 Ultimate Friday. This is my first new one. I have 8 old IBU2 base units and they have been discontinued. Well, after the learning curve of having the device talk to me and setting up a massive new text file for it I test it out and beat my head on the work bench all day trying to get rid of the lag delay from the throttle thinking its stuck in Inirtia mode. Well, Some tech support later and it turns out the new boards have a built in delay, you move the throttle stick full up and wait, then the tank starts to move. Push the stick full down and the tank does nothing. Slow lower the stick to reverse and it will slowly start reverse after a delay. Well I actually tried to drive the tank like this and had to catch it with my hands because the response is so slow it almost hit the car tires and nearly went off the curb. Needless to say its useless to battle and nearly impossible to drive. So in my opinion the IBU is no longer a viable IR Battle system board. I sent a nice email with my video to the IBU manufacturer and gave him my feed back to get rid of that nasty delay.
If you want to see how the board works here is my video If you can drive these new blue ultimate boards my hat is off to you as this is really challenging to try to drive or navigate around anything.
Anybody got any old IBU2 boards that work that they no longer use?