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Hey Martin, your 3’ IR range sounds like the issue I have with my A2! Was thinking it may be a Clark board issue. I got mine via Mato during that sale that a lot of us bought through. Will have Dean and company check it it out on Saturday - Dean can you bring a spare IR wired bulb to swap out and check? Cheers and see you guys tomorrow.

Yep!

The 3mm emitter in the PZIII was just an experiment, we had no idea whether it would work effectively or not. Dean if you can bring a wired up club emitter for the Clark tomorrow I'll buy one off you and scratch build a removable barrel mount for the tiny barrel. It is such a great little tank I do want it to be able to battle outside

Martin, just get one of those HL IR battle kit from Dean ! It has a mount for the IR on top of the turret.

But I need one with the correct JST connector already wired for the Clark. I don't have the tools to do it especially on one that small

I have IR kits for Clark as well no worries.

Headed up for just before noon to do some work and run some of the tanks that haven't been out for awhile. I think any rain is supposed to happen before then

2 new features. First one isn't new but a revamp on probably the oldest feature still standing on the field. Where I first learned to drive a tank up a hill

2nd new feature is a very cool building Wojtek has built. After some in field mods medium tanks like PZIII/IV, Sherman , T-34 etc can back in and hide. It's roof is still to be installed

Looks awesome; can’t wait to squeeze the T34-85 into that building!

Wojtek and I are going to be out tomorrow with some ideas to make the Monte Casino quarter flow better in the battles (especially the half field ones). It really doesn't work as now set up in this year's more free flow as opposed to sniping battles

Major improvements made to the whole Monte Casino area. First off was digging out the ravine ,removing bridge and weeds and old rocks ana channels and building a terraced wall. This allows the tanks now to move unimpeded right along the ravine from the picnic tableside road to the trailer side  road mostly under cover

3 new ramps through the ravine that allows movement in the middle without being forced to take the kill zone outer roads which were the only option previously

Monte Casino complex opened up with lots of ways to drive and enter and exit rather than the old closed in layout

Lastly a new feature. We combined the one little hill with our excess soil and expanded it and put a building on top. This along with a couple of new cedars fills in that one empty area. 2 other cedars were planted along the river road

Terraced retaining wall looks good.

Hi Guys,

I am heading to the field for 10am tomorrow Saturday the 3rd to unload the trailers after Aquino and do some grass cutting and weeding. Hopefully a couple of bodies are around and could help out? Let me know if you can! :-)

For sure.

Was going to run a tank or 2 anyway.

Thanks Mitch! If you got a weedwhacker bring it with you. Weeds are a mess! LOL!

Got a gas powered mofo that if it starts, will raise a little hell on those weeds!

Lovely work...

Wow, great job of weeding around the castle!

Ha and after 3 minutes of running my Taigen Panther on the new soil it de-tracked overheated the board. Out of 17 tanks I bet right now I have 5 that could battle. With the exception of the PZ 3  they are all Tamiyas with telephone poles hanging out front. I suppose i could use the JT but that is even more ridiculous