Excellent recap of the days events Mike. The Navarone fired 1500 rounds without a failure. That's 150 participants. Only 1 perfect score of all 6 targets occurred. Nice young lady performed the task in 43 seconds. And that was her first time through. All in all, an outstanding day.
On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 5:30:21 PM UTC-4, Mike Lyons wrote: > > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
