Well excuse me for stepping on some toes but it needed to be said. To all the new guys, sorry I made you feel dumb, but as I stated we were all there once.

To respond to a few comments, there is a FAQ section, and most of the HL questions are answered in that post. There is another option, the search feature, although I know you get lots of junk along with the good answers. A great way to start on this forum if you are a HL owner is to read through some of the longer posts and see what people have done in the past as builds.

Bigmig - I agree that new people are what keeps this forum going, that is to a certain extent. New interest and new projects is what keeps people motivated to keep working and going out and running their tanks, the same questions over and over again don't help anyone, it simply is lazyness. If your not willing to scroll through the pages of the forum to look for an answer then you don't deserve one. This type of thing happens on all forums, people want an answer right away so they start a new post, and then if they have another question they start another new one.

There are certian levels of this hobby, the beginer with a HL straight out of the box, having a great time running it around. Something breaks, they log on the web to find some help and find us. This is where I started and its fun isn't it? This tanker is the very bottom of the barrel, they need guidance and help alot of the time, but thats a good thing as long as they are putting in some effort.

The next stage is the 2 tank owner, they fixed the first HL and bought another, this is normally where you see projects really start to show up, they are confident enough to post pics and do some more serious mods.

The 3rd stage is the complete re-build of HL's, builds such as YHR's Panther/Pantiger where the modeler is using the model as a median and creating what he wants.

4th - The tamiya owner, building and working on Tamiya's, a whole new level of tanking.

5th - Scrathbuilding your own tanks, and large scale tanking.

Now my whole point is that very few 4th and 5th stage tankers want to hear about another broken gearbox in a Tiger, they are looking for other modelers working on similar projects. I'm not belittling the HL's or the begining stages I'm just saying I wish there was a way to sub-divide so you could put posts where they belong, grouped with similar type posts.

Speaking of which, the War Room, its for real tanks, not models. Nor does questions about R/C go in the war room. May as well get it all out at once. Feel free to get pissed at me, but this is how I feel and I am entitled to my opinion.

Keep tankin.