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Well summer is coming...did anyone find anywhere? The Devon link is coming up not found when I click on it. You would have thought that there would be an empty warehouse somewhere in these economically challenged times wouldn't you? I have to admit that I would love to be able to do battle on an arena with a mix of town and country, so that we had to utilise a bit of strategy about where we went and who we shot at.

The main problem seems to be hard cash, so is the way to go to contact an RC trucks club and do a deal with them? We could utilise the infield, and they get a circuit around realistic countryside and buildiings? I am in Bristol and don't know of any RC car clubs in the vicinity, so does anyone have any contacts?

Rob G

Had a thought about this one of the chearest ways of renting land is an allotment usually under £5 per week could put a hut on no problem and as long as its tidy no one should bother were not growing anything .the only problem is where is the permanant battle ground going to be or will we have to have 2 one for the guys down south and one for the guys further north .The one down south I dare say Bovington would let you use there outdoor and indoor facilitys without charge as long as insurance is in place,there is a place at Doncaster air musium that has a model boat show inside one of there hangers maybe something like this maybe posible .


        regards pete 

I can just picture it now....Achtung! Swedes approaching!!    We could start a new craze in Cabbage Patch tank commanders too?

Thats actually a very good idea, though I seem to recall that allotments are in high demand in these organic times. It's worth a look though.

There are quite a few abandoned quarries within 20 miles of Bristol, I have used them for rock crawlers and nitro trucks. Some are colossal and we wouldn't be bothering anyone. Undulating terrain, and plenty of space to erect portable battlefield accessories.

i think we before identified the 'central' area for the main club base as swindon ... i seem to remember,

ah yes it was, and i think but am not sure that Rob (fv432) was keeping an eye out for anything that came up there ?

cheers,

Matt

yep your right matt and the search is still on all the areas bar one have come up no good but there is still hope and im tracking down a local r/c car club which has an off road arena so fingers crossed

the railway one isnt dead but they got vandalised over christmas so i was waitin till they get cleaned up before mentioning it again

ok, cheers for that mate.

but if we use a rc car club off road track, then wewont be able to build a permernant ground ?

cheers,

Matt

from what ive seen they have access to a big area and not all of it is used /or even the whole off road track is used anymore 

http://www.swindonmodelcarclub.co.uk/

i see you have signed up to there forums mate, see how much information you can gleam out of there LOL

cheers,

Matt

yep gonna pester the life out of them did you see the pics of the outdoor arena sure we could pinch a corner