Wacky,

That’s a great idea and I hope everyone appreciates you sacrificing a working smoke unit to do the how to guide. Great attitude mate.

James,

Wacky has the luck of the Irish and I hope some of it rubs off on me, though, I think the basic drive train and tracks are perfectly usable if you don’t try to drive a HL tank like an Austin Healy 3000 through a ploughed field. I doubt a real tank would put up with that kind of abuse, but if HL tanks cost bugger all where you live then don’t worry about it.

I contacted the dealer who sold me the Tiger and he has spare smoke units and at a good price. He is a tank runner like us, but doesn’t hold much score by the HL smoke unit, if one breaks in his tanks he doesn’t bother to replace them, and advised me to do the same. At least I know he isn’t just trying to make a sale and has some integrity, I like the cut of his jib, to be honest.

I was wazzing the Tiger around on the cobble stones again today, it doesn’t like to turn on them, it skids in turns and fails to grip properly. I’m not blaming the Tiger of course, but I think it’s time we got rid of all this old rubbish that some people see as part of our heritage and paid more attention to how our tanks work on our paved lanes and roads. How long are Roman roads going to haunt us in England? We deserve something a bit more up to date![X(]

Just joking of course, I don’t want to see any cobble stones torn up or valid links to the past harmed. I’ll make my Tiger more in tune with its environment (at some point).

I’ll be sticking tiny rubber pads to the tracks of the Tiger in the near future, to improve their grip, but only in my dreams.

Forgive my Monty Python humour, it rarely travels well.