Hello PapaDave,
Still out here in Fargher Lake,got all my tanks but have taken up with HO trains again.Much more inertaining and spend most of my time building on it,and no time talking about it on-line.Still look in here on occassion,but not much going on here that I can see.
Still get a kick out of the continual debate about how HL has copied everything that Tamiya has built.Have never figured that one out yet.They are trying to copy an actual tank,I would think no mater who builds it if it's a copy of a tank they should all look the same from the outside.(other wise it would not be a copy would it.???) now on the inside it might be a little different if all the stuff is the same and interchangeable,(is it ???) If so why would someone spend so much more money for the same tank.???

By the way HELLO also to the Stuff,the Blitz,Swathdiver,and last but not least Wacky.


For Wacky===Got a news FLASH for you.The 1/12 Abrams with the four motors and dual boards was a total success.(the only thing that I never did correct was the right rear axle extenssion needed to be trimed off about a 1/4 inch because it was sticking out to wide and would sometimes want to jump the track.)The motors do not fight each other like you think,and the power to the boards is equal and any difference there may be in the individual motor RPM would not even apply in this case.This tank has kick-ass power.
You may want to go back and look at this build as a lot of the reasons why I chose to do this is explaind,and how it was done and how it worked.Also want to thank Darkith and one or two others again for their input on helping me with some of the electrical hook-up.Wacky if you had thought of this your attitude would have been that this was one of the greatest things since Ice Cream.You need to be more positive sometimes with your comments.This is suppose to be fun for most guys and the object is to bring members in no mater what they injoy even though it may go against your ideas.

I did move over to Hobby Havoc with my bigger scale tanks.I said it before and I'll say it again that those members on here who would just as soon run the bigger scale tank guys off are making a big misstake.Your shooting your self in the foot and just don't know it.And a lot of other people are missing out on some possible fun projects they may have choose to post for other to see and read and maybe some of them would do the same.For me it no longer makes any difference because I have moved on to another hobby.But I would like to think that in a lot of ways I did contribute to the good of the forum,and mabe even inticed others to get into the tank hobby.(but thats just my opinion and may be wrong.)

Just a suggestion for the RCU staff-I know this forum is dedicated to Remote Control-But all the other stuff on here I would think that this forum being mainly sponsered by TOWER HOBBY there would be a section for the people into model trains.While into the tanks I bought very little from them that pertained to tanks.But prior to getting into the tanks I had bought hundreds of dollars of HO train Items and I'm back buying again with orders allready received and some on the way and more to follow.Tower carries a hell of a lot of train items and are continuing to even increase their inventory.It's not my forum and no skin off my nose,but addvetising is addvertising.

Swathdiver my pool table is now covered by a 6 X 9 train table that will most likely end up being a 3 or 4 level layout.Don't look like much yet-But it will be a killer lay-out down the road. BIGMIG


They big buy is on,lot of stuff required for what I will build.This will be built with the older technology stuff and the older style of laying out blocks.But will be a lot of FUN-