Hey Guys,

I am watching the weather very closely as it looks like the weekend is going to be a wet one! Decision will be made tomorrow night if cancelled or not. Keep an eye here please. 

FYI if it goes ahead the club is doing a BBQ on Saturday 12 to 3 so that will be our lunch plans as we have to support the club anytime we can. The usual hamburgers, hot dogs, fries. Prices are reasonable not like Aquino! LOL! Of course anyone is welcome to bring their own lunch...

That's it for now! 

TXS
Dean

Sorry guys, going to have to call it and cancel Saturday battleday. Oh well, save it up for the long battle  weekend next weekend! sunday looks to be clear in the morning but thunderstorms in the afternoon. I may pop out sunday morning for a bit but have other commitments for the afternoon...

I'll be out Sunday morning.

Booo! I blame the scheduler! LOL!

It is OK though... gives me another weekend to work on tanks...

Mike's To Do List for tanks... (Short term fixing...)

• For Martin - Panther
  
• For Derek - Comet
  
• Johnny Walker Sherman: IR Bulb replacement
  
• M41: Sound pot mounting
  
• KV-1: Torsion bar upgrade
  
• T-34: upper turret conversion & wiring
  

Lots more (Martin's other tank is first in line after these)

Too many hobbies (aka loves of my attention!)

Can't wait to be back to throwing tracks every 10 minutes on that Taigen Panther after the Tamiya running flawlessly ever since I built it

I have a 6 year old Taigen panther. Never thrown a track... :-)

Since I 'm normally dead before 10 minutes it gives me something to do      

I’ll come out Sunday morning as well

What is the schedule for next week (Canada Day) tank meet ? Want to plan it now so I don't miss it.

Probably rain

It’s looking like that kind of year.

Weather Network says it looks good

Weather Channel says we might as well build RC Arks for the rest of the summer

Being a glass half full guy let's ignore the Weather Channel

No I mean what day are we suppose to meet up ?

I think it's Friday for set up and Saturday and Sunday for battling. I was going to get a hotel but can't take the chance of a cancellation so might only come up one day

Well if forecast now is to be trusted it looks like Friday is the best day !

I guess we will see whether Sat/Sun is a better day or perhaps Monday since it is a holiday ? I am okay with that. Traffic would be much lighter.

Yes I think we need to be nimble as far as scheduling with these crappy weather forecasts that are wrong 50% of the time anyway. That is why I'm more into the uncertified just show up on a nice weekend day and go from there

MikeC wrote:

No I mean what day are we suppose to meet up ?

Hey MikeC,

Ya I knew what you meant...just messing with you!

Okay that only works if you are retired and no better halves that are not into tanking.

Abteilung 506 wrote:

Yes I think we need to be nimble as far as scheduling with these crappy weather forecasts that are wrong 50% of the time anyway. That is why I'm more into the uncertified just show up on a nice weekend day and go from there

Sounds like a plan!

MikeC wrote:

Okay that only works if you are retired and no better halves that are not into ta nking.

The field is so amazing it would be a shame to have no battles this summer because of the weather conflicting with set in stone dates. Pretty sure there are lots of RC tankers out there having seen the crappy photos I posted who would give their left nut to run their tanks on it.

They may be more fond of the right one!

It really was incredible how fast it seemed the last 2 years of work all came together by the end of the day Saturday and there is still more details that can be done. When Dean said we have a world class field he wasn't kidding. The addition of Derek's buildings and using the burnt out buildings properly made a huge difference

The field has certainly evolved and is still evolving and will still evolve...

Considering how little rain we got in Waterloo today, is it too late to go ahead and do a battleday tomorrow?

Maybe take our chances on getting 1 in and do the bbq in support of the gun club?

Seriously I think we had more rain at Aquino that what we got in Waterloo today.

Well I don't know where you are in Waterloo but I was out near the field and it POURED twice and was steady rain for about 1/2 an hour. I am going g out tomorrow at noon to support the gun club and if it isn't raining might drive around a little. and will probably be out Sunday morning too...