I spent 2 hours today mowing the field and general clean up. The field is looking good and is dry. The rivers really drain the ground well.

We have 9 patio stones to place for the central village as per our Feb meeting.

There are other roads that have to be cleaned up and grass patches removed.

There is a hill that has to be removed to make room for the town.

Rivers need to be dug out and cleaned up.

The Allied and German bases need to have some grass removed too.

The forecast is calling for late afternoon early evening showers, so IMHO we should still meet tomorrow, at least to finish the renovations. We should still have 4-5 hours of work and battle time before the weather turns.

Check back at 9pm tonight for the final update.

Monk if you need a lift ,E mail me.
Charging batterys and loading tools...

Tim

I will be there unless you cancel it.

I will bring the remaining patio slab, some dirt and yard tools.

I am charging batteries because a couple Panzers will come along too, just in case

I will be there unless my car explodes.

Unlikely though, it's a VW





...wait, right?

I will be there at 10 tomorrow.
Tim, could you show me your "a gear puller" tomorrow. I want see what it looks like.

Sure thing Ke.

See you guys tomorrow.

I'll be there

Sadly, I won't be reporting for duty. I hope you guys have a productive day, and don't forget to take pictures for us poor schmoes who can't make it.

While I'm stuck here in Windsor, I will be in my garage working on some stuff for the battle field, at a least I can contribute in some way. I will be finishing off 4 pieces of the railroad track, so don't forget to leave room for it, in total it is about 12' long. I also have a small bunker planned and some accessories.

Have great day guy and don't forget the pictures!

Derek

as you know i have my daughter so i can't go and i'm also working on a water tower some comunication poles
and some directional signs i hope you guys will still have room to fit the bridge i left with you as i am donating it to the club
it's there for you guys to keep. Stince and i will be missing the great fun so yes please post some video and pic

We are going to miss the lads from Windsor.

March and April were a bust last year. It is hit and miss with our climate. Lets hope for 7 good Battle days to come.

Fireman Tim wrote:

We are going to miss the lads from Windsor. .

Yes we are, but thanks for working on those things for battlefield, and thanks, Tim, for cutting the grass


I think we need to put a requisition for May, in military format;

Weather, pleasant, dry

Woke up to rain today, I hope you guys have better weather.
It really sucks being this far away.

Don't forget to post "Sitrep".

well how did it go guys hope you had some good time to battle and have some fun hope to be at the next one

Weather is not so bad before I left at 2PM. I attended 2 battles until my Panzer III was out of function ..

It was a good day. Weather was overcast but there wasn't any rain except for about 3 minutes of a sprinkle that did have us wondering if it was the start of something.

Temperature started off fairly warmed but the wind chill came up as the afternoon went on.

We had 10 attendees and a few visitors.

The first 1 1/2 to 2 hours was spent working on the field, changes included;

- moving the village site to the centre of the field
- setting patio slabs for the new village site
- setting up a new installation point for the trestle bridge Roland built (looks REAL good)
- moving one hill
- drainage ditch clean out
- a couple new hills on the edge of the site, removing one hill in the centre of the site.

A kildeer had a nest on the hill nearest with eggs the German base, we where able to work and operate the tanks around her, she got more used to us and staid on the nest most of the time but I think she was happy when we left in the afternoon.

The new layout is a big improvement with the village in the centre, I think the layout io much better than last year.

We ran tanks for the rest of the day, things went very well

Did anyone get an overview picture of the new battlefield?

Lol have to laugh at that bouncy smiley....

i'll post the ones Glen sent me and thanks for the pics Glen

Lots of fun today and the guys did a great job working on the feild, Thanks to all the workers.
The feild looks great , we have more hills and I think the new set up will do fine.

Once we have a bigger turn out and all the buildings are on the feild, the battles are giong to be crazy...and fun...

Wait.... whats with the bird?

Also this is starting to look FRAG quality

The Bird is our new member,it was squaking and chattering at us the whole day.
We called him Panther G...

Did it have Tamiya guts!?!

I dont know about the guts but it was full of bird dodo ....

Did it get a lucky shot on the Pan-Tiger?!?

Hey guys! I put my (considerable) MS Paint skills to work and drew up a rough plan of the changes to the field!

All I really added (artistic license) were some proposed cover along the riverbanks outside of the village, as it seemed to me that was a major factor limiting offensive movements!