So I decided to fence off some of my backyard and make a tank field bout the size 44' x 24'. Fenced it off today and let the creation begin....

Good luck, I'd love to do the same at my house but I think it would put my otherwise "tank tolerant" wife over the edge.

Remenber: If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

Yea my parents split and my mom left so my dad let me put a fence up

Good luck.....just wait 'til you find that your other 12 tanks don't have enough room....[X(] they will be coming.
peanuts.....Pringles....girl friends....RC ranks.....all the same

Oh dont get me started. I already want a Tiger, Sherman, Panther, KT, Pershing... Then my dad wants to get a Panzer 4 to play around with

Lordy...

I've tried for decades to get my relatives to show ~some~ interest in my R/C hobby. Only two that really helped were my dad, and that was mainly because it was 'electronics'... and his sister, my lone aunt on dad's side of the family, and she got me a Cox .049 string-control which got started ~once~ and ~never~ flew 'cause the glo-fuel ate the plastic fuselage. And sadly, she was the first of the relatives to pass on from the Big C.

Oldest nephew never showed much interest 'cept in one of my 1/16 LAV's two years ago, and only then 'cause it was fast and maneuverable. Middle nephew is a economics/stocks geek... the youngest is under two neices w/ atistic tendancies, but loves building stuff - Lego, K'nex, you name it. When he's a bit older, I'm gonna see if he is interested in models, and then try for the R/C's. My sis might rag me for spoiling him, but Mom can spoil the girls, spoiling the lad is ~my~ job, and his oldest bro's if I can get him to chip in (HAH!)

As for space... I have an idea, but I've yet to talk to the possible contact before I can even see if its possible. It might mean some publicity up here to that could lead to other contacts... if we do it right. I'll let all you guys know ~if~ things look good.

And Tetris... your place is certainly closer than Ft. Erie... even if its smaller. Mebbe a Friday evening 'test' at your place, then on to Erie in the morning, eh?

WhiteWolf
- who ~still~ dinna cut the frakkin bridge wood!

Yea... right now its a blank canvas. Gotta start buildings soon. Damn good thing I decided to stay back a semester in highschool else I wouldnt have the time to work on stuff.

And sure a test run when I've got some playing field.

with Dad on your side, you may wind up with a homespun tank company. Nice to have a family member interested. Keep pluggin with school....don't ever let that critical element slip. Good luck.

Pay attention to your base.....If its going to be covered with grass....plan on making it mowable or it will quickly get over grown. You will spend more time clipping grass than messing with your tanks. If you are going to make it a sand or clay base, you might want to lay down some weed blocking sheets and spraying some grass/weed killer. If you are going to add some hills and "rivers"....plan it out how you are going to mow it. Nothing worse than making some nice hills and then chopping the tops off them when you mow...don't ask mehow I know this...lol

Thanks for the heads up. I was thinking of throwing dirt and some sand down, but because of it not being my house but my dad's, i dont want to kill half the lawn. Lol Can I just cover it with dirt and sand and when grass grows cut it up with a weed whacker? Also for most buildings what is an average dimension in height?

Most german tanks are a little over 10 ft hight....you can use that as a referance. Weed wackers do not multch and they will distroy any biuldings made out of modeling stuff. I have seen people dress up cinderblocks to look like houses but a weed wacker will tear up any paint you put on them.( again, don't askme how I know this)If you are going for dirt, just lay out like 40 bucks for grass killer and hose the place down. It only kills the grass for about 6 months anyway. It will kill what ever it touches but you can lay down seed in a month or so and have a new lawn as long as you water it daly...If you have a sloped area, liik out for rain washing every thing away.

For rivers...

You might look into some type of polystyrene tube/channel if you want it to retain water... think like evestroughing, but wider. And you could use a surplus (Princess Auto) pond pump to route the water from one end to the other if you even want it to flow. I know some places have vinyl hosing (roll-out downspout tube, or pool backwash tube) but ya might want a larger diameter. Just slit one side, and open up, presto, tube becomes channel. Just bond the ends to a reservoir at either end, one for the pump to pull from, other to catch the water from the pump.

For roads... you can use walkway paving stones... check locally if there is a maker, and see how much they ask for damaged ones. Place pattern-down, and dust the concrete with sand. Then ya only have to use weed-killer at the joints. Another way is if you have aneighbor with a rototiller (powered soil-chewer for tilling garden in the spring, etc) you can 'cut' a path for the road... then weed-kill it/paving-stone it, whatever.

And then there is the other tankers in the area... " If you build it, they will come... " [>:]

WhiteWolf

Yea... sounds like a plan. I actually didnt think of using tubing for a river, it's ingenius.

This is from the Front Range Armor Group Site (FRAG) -

Good luck

Awesome. I saved alot of your images from past threads for buildings. They're god-tier and thank you for the info page

just checking in on the field as i have some space to fill as well

my son just graduated from high school and while job searching and taking a break before starting collage he tanks around with me so we will be making a battle field back where the tortise's like to tunnel. they will be hibernating until march so we have a few months before they burrow through!

right now we are setting up boxes and tanking around them, but they move too easily haha!

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Aha. I decided to stay an extra semester to do some Law courses for Policing, Then recently I decided I wanted to be an Arctectual Technician. So build scale buildings and drafts online I can do that

Yes and she must be one of the most tolerant ones that I know. LOL. Good luck with your feild. I am still toying with the idea myself.

If you build it...they will come!!!

HAHA yeah sounds like my oldest, 21 military intelligence (yeah i know oxymoron), in school for agricultureal studies and now wants to be an x-ray tech.....

Well after the Can-Am meeting and the guys giving me a spare bridge (thank you very much)I have been kicked in the butt to work on the field and so far i've cut some branches off low hanging trees and dug up a small ravine. Tomorrow morning comes widening the ravine and clearing any loose branches.

what a small world......a very good friend of mine knows exactally where your town is, and something about going to high school close by, class of 70'....i think she is on her way there to visit some friends where she grew up in Canada and i told her a tanker monk is from and believe me i tore up the name but she seemed to whip it right out!. she says your town is very friendly, she works as a staff nurse at one of the surgery centers i assist at and collects stuff for me to use for my tanks like tubing of all diameters, rubber caps and instrument covers all are sterile disopsables. i will have to find out where she is at and send a junk package of stuff to ya!

Now thats cool. A nice bunch of potatoe mashers!!!

Brushie:

You want 'medical salvage' I can provice some close to home.

Those blue things are the stoppers off IV bags (though they are moving away from 'em these days) and because they are a latex rubber, tend to deteriorate over time. The red ones looks suspiciously like blood sampliung parts, and they usually end up in the Sharps bins.

As for my 'supply', I get IV TPN (IV feeding) at home, and so have bags of various sizes (the boaters love 'em for ballast bags) tubing and assorted connectors/fittings, syringes of 3ml, 10/12ml, and 20ml (I only salvage the saline ones), and those need plastic needles they are trying to use instead of the metal ones. I ~can~ salvage some glass vials, with or without their caps (look a lot like milk jugs) but salvaging needes is something I DONT do. If I need one for rinsing a vial, its a fresh one, and if I need the metal tubing, even thats a fresh one w/ the tip cut with a dremel (ends up the same as the ones you can get in hobby stores for solvent/oil application)

Personally, I use the syringes and the plastic needles for glue and silicone applicators, as you can get the syringes into spots you'd never get a bottle into. Easier to carry too (like when I go to my youngest nephew's place to help him put his wooden puzzle-models together)

If you're gonna use any of the bits, I'd wash 'em in alcohol or some other disinfectant. You be better off making casts of Tamiyas with a hobby putty (I may try some low-temp casting this winter) Most of the aftermarket 'fiddly' stuff out there has been copied from Tamiya, Verlinden, or the considerably rare Kirin sets. Having originals here, I could tell ya which sets the parts came from. And if they can 'dupe' 'em, and sell 'em online, why can't I make 'em at cost for friends. Though when it comes to the boxes/crates, I prefer to build 'em out of wood. Once I try making the bits, I'll let people know how easy/hard it is, and what products I used (going to tryi doing it on the cheap, not with Smooth-On pro-level stuff)

I can send or post pics... depending on how many would like to see the hardware.

WhiteWolf
- who missed his gobbler-meal 'cause he dinna feel well.

PS: here is one example: IV-set drip chamber turned into a suction-bulb for my Touch-n-Flow solvent applicator. Very useful for minor clogs, as I can blow it out w/ pressure when a bit of styrene gets in the tip. Also allows one to fill easily w/o using ones mouth (and the health risk)

Found these two in my shed. Im thinking of spray painting them olive and put a nice big white star on them. Good addition to the field in progress