A great day! Beautiful weather, lots of people attended the event and we had around 200 kid-visits (many repeaters) at our activity.
Frank and John set up half a dozen silhouette targets of tanks and vehicles, plus one of an ambulance, and a post with 6 circular targets. A couple of shooters hit the ambulance and had to perform The Walk of Shame to go wipe it off. John had kids taking 10 shots each with the Navarone Gun <http://www.rctankcombat.com/order-of-battle/field-artillery/FA003/>. Prizes were awarded for the most hits in the shortest time each hour, plus instant prizes for first-shot hits on the post targets. Frank had kids occasionally driving the Semovente <http://www.rctankcombat.com/order-of-battle/tanks/T100/> to attract visitors when things were quiet (which wasn't often) and was promoting the hobby to anyone who would listen. Several adults were very interested in (and many more just amused by) the R/C Tank Combat concept. David and his buddy Dean had kids working Bazooka Joe <http://www.rctankcombat.com/order-of-battle/rocket-launchers/RL001/> while I oversaw Len Opie <http://www.rctankcombat.com/order-of-battle/rocket-launchers/RL003/>. Kids were allowed 3 shots on each and about 75% were able to hit one of the closer targets. Some of the best shooters were young girls. Bazooka Joe's marker locked up after about 100 rounds. I suspect it got liquid CO2 in there and something broke and jammed the bolt open. I need to rearrange the layout so I can tilt the bottle. Len Opie had a new rotate servo mechanism installed the night before and ran flawlessly* all day, on a single set of 4 AA batteries for the R/C receiver and 3 servos, for an estimated 500 rounds. * I had to manually cock the marker a little each time because it wouldn't fully cock with the trigger depressed. I was using a toggle switch to fire and separate joysticks for rotate and elevate. Unless the toggle switch was rapidly reset it caused the problem. Not a big deal for a single-shot asset. A momentary pushbutton switch on the R/C transmitter would solve the problem but I plan to build a custom control box as used with RL001. At the end of the day the closer targets were almost completely covered in paintball goo. When a pair of 12ish boys came back for their third time through I asked if they had seen everything else. They told me "*Yeah, but this is the coolest thing here.*" This at an event with dozens of armored vehicles, many other vehicles, a helicopter to sit in, horse cavalry, working dogs, lots of people in uniform with weapons, LEGO building, tank demos, flamethrower demos, and more! -- -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to rctankcombat@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R/C Tank Combat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
