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Nov. 10th, 2020 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kallistiiWell, today I got out with pheloniusfriar to run my RC vehicles for a bit. I got the RC PBR out on Mooney's Bay, and went through 3 battery packs. Lots of fun...although the wind was whipping up some large (in scale) waves, and it caused the boat to occasionally run it's waterjets out the back into the air as it came down on a wave. The Friar also took a the wheel for a while, too! Of course, we attracted some onlookers.
After that, I got my Virhuck 6x6 crawler/basher out, and after a few minutes, it think I toasted the first rear diff...they are plastic, and I had hoped to upgrade them at some point...but it looks like that will be sooner than later. But it was still a fun beast to run around with front wheel drive, and every time it accelerated from a standing start, it would spin its front wheels throwing sand everywhere! I went through two battery packs on that, again with the Friar taking a turn on it.
When we finished, on the way back we encountered an elderly gentleman carrying an RC German Tiger II tank. We chatted briefly, but he didn't seem to want to talk, but was surprised to see someone else with an RC vehicle at the beach. I retrospect, I am guessing he was German, although he he and no accent, and may have been reticent about talking about the tank he may had been crew on during the war, talking to a Canadian whose grandfather may have fought against him in Europe. The Friar and I didn't press the short conversation, and wished him well with his tank, and left.
I have more thoughts about this encounter...but I will have to decide if I want to share them.
pheloniusfriar to run my RC vehicles for a bit. I got the RC PBR out on Mooney's Bay, and went through 3 battery packs. Lots of fun...although the wind was whipping up some large (in scale) waves, and it caused the boat to occasionally run it's waterjets out the back into the air as it came down on a wave. The Friar also took a the wheel for a while, too! Of course, we attracted some onlookers.After that, I got my Virhuck 6x6 crawler/basher out, and after a few minutes, it think I toasted the first rear diff...they are plastic, and I had hoped to upgrade them at some point...but it looks like that will be sooner than later. But it was still a fun beast to run around with front wheel drive, and every time it accelerated from a standing start, it would spin its front wheels throwing sand everywhere! I went through two battery packs on that, again with the Friar taking a turn on it.
When we finished, on the way back we encountered an elderly gentleman carrying an RC German Tiger II tank. We chatted briefly, but he didn't seem to want to talk, but was surprised to see someone else with an RC vehicle at the beach. I retrospect, I am guessing he was German, although he he and no accent, and may have been reticent about talking about the tank he may had been crew on during the war, talking to a Canadian whose grandfather may have fought against him in Europe. The Friar and I didn't press the short conversation, and wished him well with his tank, and left.
I have more thoughts about this encounter...but I will have to decide if I want to share them.
