Hey, anyone who cares to drive There will be a Build & Bull session at Tugboat's house on 18 Aug (Saturday) from 10AM till whenever. The shop and pool (ahem... test basin) will be open and we're grilling! This is a combined SAS/Battlestations/SE RC Tank combat gathering, so come see teh wierdness and get fed!
Statesboro, GA, about 30-45 minutes from Savannah, depending on how fast one drives in a 70mph zone. Got 4 people coming so far, and Brian K is recruiting at the university. It's cool to be a tenured professor so you can bring your RC boats into chemistry class and give a spiel
I wish I could take you up on your offer, but CA -> GA and back is a long drive. It's only four letters, but a whole lot more miles...
Yeah, alphabetically, we're right there. Darn that Geography! We're up to 5 people now, when we get closer, I'll buy the food I need to find the dang digital camera! Two of us have RC combat tanks that we need to get video of driving around so we can get our hull numbers Oh, yeah, pics of the build&bull would be nice, too And, Martin Helsing is bringing me a plug for the USS Gearing, and one for the Italian cruiser Monteccucoli. The full Monte is going to get a mold made, and quickly Martin does good hull work.
RC combat tanks? Are those the 1/6 scale paintball tanks? Or are they 1/16 Tamiya tanks with the TBU or Hen Long airsoft tanks? I try to keep track of all things related to RC combat
Gascan, those are the 1/6 scale paintball tanks It IS almost time for the b&b... I'm doing reasonably well recovering from surgery and should be 100% by then! Hope I get my tank rolling in amongst actual work! I'm not allowed to work in the shop till Monday, and heavy work not till Saturday. But it's gonna be a blast!
It was mostly boats. A few of us also drive 1/6 scale tanks around, armed with paintball markers. There's a fair bit of overlap between the two hobbies. Lots of fun was had! We grilled burgers and dogs and worked on boats for several hours. Pete D from Savannah brought a TV/DVD combo and we watched battling movies, and John Wayne's Operation Pacific. Pete brought that out of respect for my past in subs We also put Brian's I-boat project in the test basin and got her ballasted!
Hey Tugboat, I am working on my 1/6th Tiger I for tank combat. I have know Frank and Will for years now. Bobo Red Lion, Pa
Cool, Bobo! I am closest to finishing an FT-17 (aka US Six-ton Tank, first tank used by the US Army)... It's kind of strange, but the tracks are on separate sponsons out from the hull, kind of interesting to roll a sponson around on the floor making vroom noises (until the body is done With the start of Artwerks, I haven't been working on the tank as much (obviously), but I plan to make a battle up in MD or VA next spring sometime. Martin Helsing has an LVT-4 running and he's going to convoy up with me
Ah, I got dragged off to grandma's many times when I was younger We're going to have another one after Thanksgiving before the Christmas rush starts in earnest!
