SoCal RC Tank Club

[DavidN]

[DavidN]

[DavidN]

[DavidN]

Our members and our tanks are looking forward to a relaxing event with the ocean breeze on 8/10/25. This picture was from the past event at the museum.

[DavidN]

My latest addition to my collection. A fictional Lend-Lease Soviet Sherman tank. This is the only Sherman, out of the 7 HL M4/105 tanks that I own, I installed Richard's barrel recoil unit into it. I used up all 8 LED ports too :-)

[DavidN]

Our plan for the next three months....
*8/10/25: Exhibition/battle; Lane Victory Ship; San Pedro, 1pm-7pm.
*8/24/25: Battle; Encinitas Community Park; 9am-3pm.
*9/14/25: Private battle; Our club's battlefield in Phelan, 9am-4pm.
*10/5/25: Private battle; resident in Anaheim 9am-4pm.
*10/19/25: Battle; Crest Community Church, Riverside, 9am-3pm.
*11/8/25: Flabob Airport; Veteran Celebration in Riverside; 9am-4pm.

[DavidN]

The other side of the hobby room.....

[DavidN]

SoCal RC Tank Club will be doing an exhibition at the Spirit of '45 event at the Lane Victory Maritime Center in San Pedro CA. Club members helping out in running the event get in free. General attendees can get early bird tickets and more information are found here: https://lanevictory.org/.../lane-victorys-80th.../... and here: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../spirit-of-45-la-tickets...

The Spirit of '45 is an event held at the Lane Victory, a WW2 era merchant ship that served in supporting operations through several conflicts that followed by moving men and materiel. This event features vintage music, vintage dress, and is a place for history buffs and reenactors come to gather to celebrate the ship's significance. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Lane Victory.

We at the SoCal RC Tank Club will be doing an exhibition for this event. If you are only attending as a patron, please purchase your tickets with the event holder. If you would like to come with our cadre of volunteers to help set up and run the event, we require you to RSVP in advance so we can get parking and admission fees waived for you. You will be required to come to the museum and help us setup from 12:00pm-1:00pm and you will help us from public gate open at 2pm to close for tear-down (~7:30PM) and cleanup. Our goal is to share our hobby and love of history with others and hopefully expose people to a new activity through our club.

[DavidN]

Our club is invited to run IR battles at their event in San Pedro.

[DavidN]

One side of the room.....

[DavidN]

More pictures from our last event....

[DavidN]

As we continue to find ways for tanks from different companies to join our battle, we have an update for Torro/Taigen tanks 'owners. Tang Manisuta has made another discovery. He was able to hook up the light for the LegoDEI receiver. The Torro tanks will shake 1x when it is hit. After 5 hits, it will shake 3x and then will go into death mode. As before, enemy could not tell it it is knocked out. Now it blinks, so the enemy can go find another tank to shoot at. Great work, Tang! Members with Torro tanks will save $ since they don't have to discard the boards inside in order to battle in our club. To see the full video clip, you can go to our Face Book page under SoCal RC Tank Club.

[DavidN]

I suggest you get rid of the hooben battle apple for continuity and effectiveness.

The Hooben Tiger performed well yesterday. It received hits accordingly.

[DavidN]

[DavidN]

[DavidN]

Announcement: New members....you can bring your tanks that have technical issues to our event this Saturday. We will set out an hour between 3pm-4pm for core members to help you.

[DavidN]

What are those tank tracks you have on the Panzer IV ?
I looked at the available Panzer IV RC tanks and I see none with those style of tracks.

https://www.motionrc.com/products/torro-1-16-scale-german-panzer-iv-ausf-g-metal-track-set-winter-tor1383859008

[RichJohnson]

I suggest you get rid of the hooben battle apple for continuity and effectiveness.

[DavidN]

Getting this Hooben Tiger I ready for IR battle this Saturday at Lake Huntington.

[RichJohnson]

Very nice looking north afrika Tiger. I have always been an advocate of placing figures on tank models as it brings the model to life.
Ive also been a student / aficionado of North Afrika genre modeling, though i prefer the allied front. I love the SAS jeeps, the M3 Lees, the M4 and M4a2 shermans deployed there. The T12 anti tank half tracks, of which I started and almost finished one nearly 15 years ago now.