Greetings from Christmas Day (0630). Wishing you and your significant others all the very best for the Festive season [Christmas, Hanukkah, etc.] and I hope you have a good 2025.
@ ah but you were making an observation or critique, Ive had a few who were just rude. One comment told me to ‘shut up’ till I knew what I was talking about, the dude looked like he’d just been sacked from tenacious D so I guess he’d got got more time on his hands!. I told him he was a very rude man! 😂 Hope you’re keeping very well!
@@John-mq9fx it should be fine, if you want to be picky you can lift the gear boxes up a bit to raise the sprockets, but the heng long one has a better dimension turret than the taigen panther. Happy Christmas! 🎄🎄 and thanks for supporting the channel 🙂
@@mrtankalotrctankschannel I hope you'll show us in a video! I bought a leopard 2a6 earlier in the year and have been following your videos to make it look good. Thanks for posting them.
@ hope it’s helpful, and thanks for supporting the little community, means a lot to me, and yes my little man now has his prezzies, might put a post up on a little bit of painting I did on it, and the sprockets are 1 to 2 mm too far back, it’s bugging me……😳
Merry Christmas bud just purchased a abrams 1/16 had to do a few repairs plus waiting on parts is there anywhere in UK I can get parts from would you know
@@Lee-fe1uk hi! Yes, Haya tanks in wales www.hayaltd.co.uk/RC_Tanks/cat191101_254906.aspx or forgebear tanks www.forgebeartanks.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html Have a great day!
Just thought… have you got an anniversary coming up? A good reason for a Tank Driving Experience you see. Pick your tank… one hour once over all the parts and functions; then an hour driving through a tank assault course plus loading and firing big blanks… Salisbury Plain. That sort of thing🤔🫡 Twelve inches to the foot mind you…
@ Ah… let her know of that wise adage ‘Experiences last longer than things’😉. Yes the other night was much better than usual. After the gig before that, it was so awful the idea of quitting even crossed my mind. I think we should stick with the analogue desk. It would shred Paul’s nerves to go back on the Mackie!
@ Perhaps it can be told. It was 1967. Most of us had seen The Great Escape. The idea had been to dig an escape tunnel to get out of school. This was a bad idea on three counts 1) it was easier just to use the school exit 2) the tunnel had been discovered and collapsed 3) it didn’t go under the boundary wall but described a large semi circle. However it had been a very heroic effort by previous school kids being about forty yards long. Around the scrub like land were scores of short planks of about a metre each. An egalitarian decision was made: each pupil was entitled to five planks. Instead of tunnelling at one end of the collapsed tunnel most of us dug a large hole and throne room beyond that. It was roofed over with planks and clods of earth. The throne room had a dirt throne fashioned as a step. Duly named Manor House, the Lord of the Manor, Titch Jones sat on his thrown and held court. This wasn’t really my thing so I started digging out an alternative den at the other end of the collapsed trench. Finding more planks I was able to go ‘over quota’ on the Finder’s Keepers rule. It was going ok at about 6 out of 10. A gang of One. Titch Jones fulfilled his aristocratic position by directing refinements to Manor House which was a very impressive structure with what would be called an ‘eco roof’ of living turf. Two or three Manor House defectors joined me and the first of these, Curas argued that it deserved a name. It was christened Tank 5. Withdrawal of Curas’ five planks from Manor House didn’t threaten its integrity but a sudden rebellion at Manor House collapsed the main chamber. With further defections to Tank 5, war was inevitable. Divided roughly equally Manor House threw clods of earth at Tank 5 and we returned fire. The clods burst on contact with the ground in a very satisfying way with added vocal sounds of ‘Pwwwch!’ and ‘Boffff!’ adding to the effect. With about 60% of the theoretical maximum membership, Curas sought directions from me. Tunnelling began in all directions radiating like spokes of a wheel. Tank 5 developed a turret out of pooled planks. I thought that things were going rather well. However after about three more sessions, much to my surprise, Curas put his head through the roof shouting loudly ‘I JUST CAN’T STAND THISSSS’. And so Manor House and Tank 5 both fell. In my line of work the animation of Manor House was ‘Hierarchical Reasoning’ which triggered its downfall much like Putin’s will be. Tank 5 thrived on Individualistic Reasoning, augmented by the Enclaved pleasure of exchanging fire with Manor House. Alas it couldn’t last. Surveying the wreckage of Tank 5, I accepted with Fatalism that there could be no undoing of what had already been undone. The Great Escape was forgotten and we graduated to making exotic space craft from sprues and randomised Airfix plastic parts. And so tensions grew between the SPAF air force and the LLAFF air force…
Happy Holidays to you and your family. Love your videos
@@savoy9611 thanks so much, you have a great time too, and thanks for watching it 🙂🎄🎄
Happy christmas🎉🎉
@@saamenorth6867 and to you 🙂🎄🎄
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2025
@@rosswhyte4616 you too! 🙂
Merry Christmas
@@williambaker5670 you too! Have a great day 🙂
Greetings from Christmas Day (0630).
Wishing you and your significant others all the very best for the Festive season [Christmas, Hanukkah, etc.] and I hope you have a good 2025.
@@whya2ndaccount hi! Thanks 🙂 and you too, hope your having a good day, thanks for supporting the channel this year 🙂
@@mrtankalotrctankschannel Mate all good. Whilst hopefully not that extreme I'm sure I've been guilty of the "That's not a tank!" type comments.
@ ah but you were making an observation or critique, Ive
had a few who were just rude.
One comment told me to ‘shut up’ till I knew what I was talking about, the dude looked like he’d just been sacked from tenacious D so I guess he’d got got more time on his hands!.
I told him he was a very rude man! 😂
Hope you’re keeping very well!
Happy Christmas!
@@williamberkley9581 you too! 🙂
:O I have a Heng Long Panther G on order. Hope there are no issues.
@@John-mq9fx it should be fine, if you want to be picky you can lift the gear boxes up a bit to raise the sprockets, but the heng long one has a better dimension turret than the taigen panther.
Happy Christmas! 🎄🎄 and thanks for supporting the channel 🙂
EHeh
nice video
@@SCSIII thanks! Have a great day!
As soon as you mentioned rivet counters I thought it must be a Tiger or a T-34. My guess is T-34.
@@RH-ix9nf no, but your on the right track! 😉 have a great day!
@@mrtankalotrctankschannel I hope you'll show us in a video! I bought a leopard 2a6 earlier in the year and have been following your videos to make it look good. Thanks for posting them.
@ hope it’s helpful, and thanks for supporting the little community, means a lot to me, and yes my little man now has his prezzies, might put a post up on a little bit of painting I did on it, and the sprockets are 1 to 2 mm too far back, it’s bugging me……😳
Merry Christmas bud just purchased a abrams 1/16 had to do a few repairs plus waiting on parts is there anywhere in UK I can get parts from would you know
@@Lee-fe1uk hi! Yes, Haya tanks in wales
www.hayaltd.co.uk/RC_Tanks/cat191101_254906.aspx
or forgebear tanks
www.forgebeartanks.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
Have a great day!
Just thought… have you got an anniversary coming up? A good reason for a Tank Driving Experience you see. Pick your tank… one hour once over all the parts and functions; then an hour driving through a tank assault course plus loading and firing big blanks… Salisbury Plain. That sort of thing🤔🫡
Twelve inches to the foot mind you…
@@stephensmith799 hi Steve! Not sure I could convince the wife!! 😂 Hope you had a great Christmas and well played the other night!
@ Ah… let her know of that wise adage ‘Experiences last longer than things’😉. Yes the other night was much better than usual. After the gig before that, it was so awful the idea of quitting even crossed my mind. I think we should stick with the analogue desk. It would shred Paul’s nerves to go back on the Mackie!
@ After thought…. I must tell you about Tank 5 one day
@ next rehersal! 🙂
@ Perhaps it can be told.
It was 1967. Most of us had seen The Great Escape. The idea had been to dig an escape tunnel to get out of school. This was a bad idea on three counts 1) it was easier just to use the school exit 2) the tunnel had been discovered and collapsed 3) it didn’t go under the boundary wall but described a large semi circle. However it had been a very heroic effort by previous school kids being about forty yards long.
Around the scrub like land were scores of short planks of about a metre each. An egalitarian decision was made: each pupil was entitled to five planks.
Instead of tunnelling at one end of the collapsed tunnel most of us dug a large hole and throne room beyond that. It was roofed over with planks and clods of earth. The throne room had a dirt throne fashioned as a step. Duly named Manor House, the Lord of the Manor, Titch Jones sat on his thrown and held court.
This wasn’t really my thing so I started digging out an alternative den at the other end of the collapsed trench. Finding more planks I was able to go ‘over quota’ on the Finder’s Keepers rule.
It was going ok at about 6 out of 10.
A gang of One.
Titch Jones fulfilled his aristocratic position by directing refinements to Manor House which was a very impressive structure with what would be called an ‘eco roof’ of living turf.
Two or three Manor House defectors joined me and the first of these, Curas argued that it deserved a name. It was christened Tank 5. Withdrawal of Curas’ five planks from Manor House didn’t threaten its integrity but a sudden rebellion at Manor House collapsed the main chamber.
With further defections to Tank 5, war was inevitable. Divided roughly equally Manor House threw clods of earth at Tank 5 and we returned fire. The clods burst on contact with the ground in a very satisfying way with added vocal sounds of ‘Pwwwch!’ and ‘Boffff!’ adding to the effect.
With about 60% of the theoretical maximum membership, Curas sought directions from me. Tunnelling began in all directions radiating like spokes of a wheel. Tank 5 developed a turret out of pooled planks.
I thought that things were going rather well. However after about three more sessions, much to my surprise, Curas put his head through the roof shouting loudly ‘I JUST CAN’T STAND THISSSS’.
And so Manor House and Tank 5 both fell.
In my line of work the animation of Manor House was ‘Hierarchical Reasoning’ which triggered its downfall much like Putin’s will be.
Tank 5 thrived on Individualistic Reasoning, augmented by the Enclaved pleasure of exchanging fire with Manor House.
Alas it couldn’t last. Surveying the wreckage of Tank 5, I accepted with Fatalism that there could be no undoing of what had already been undone.
The Great Escape was forgotten and we graduated to making exotic space craft from sprues and randomised Airfix plastic parts. And so tensions grew between the SPAF air force and the LLAFF air force…