Good day all.

[Red Devils]

Hey guys and girls,

Just wanting to introduce myself, I'm Derek Thompson (Red Devils here) and I'm presently living in Oromocto, New Brunswick. Currently serving with the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry. Truly enjoy the RC Tanks, within my tank barn is the Cdn Leopard 2A6-Tamiya, with a WiP Mid Prod Tiger 1-HL and the ol 70's Leo 1A4-Tamiya (Some assembly required). Initially, I wanted to be a tanker but the recruiter told me I was to tall, "Infantry for you boy", he said. Ruddy liar. I do have a bit of the armored bug in me, as my dads uncle was with the 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise) in WW 2 and my moms dad (my grand dad) was with the 3 SS Div in the east, he gunned on Panthers.

So with that being said, I would like to really pick the minds of some of you Tiger tankers and upgrade my RC Tank skills. It is my scheme of manouvre to build an accurate Mid Tiger 1 and any help would be appreciated. I cannot wait to talk to you all. Take care and talk to you soon.

Derek

[FreakyDude]

welcome to the forums, first as a fellow Canadian then of the utmost as a fellow Pat , I have been gone from service for quote some time but I still remember the good times. (only bad time was battle training in Wainwright lol man that place could be nuked at any time and we wouldn't miss it)
stick around you will get all the help you need here.

[Red Devils]

Hey FreakyDude,

What Bn were you in and when?

[Reaper332]

Welcome to the forum Derek.....

Cheers Ken

[sparks]

Hi Derek,
Welcome to the forum
sparks

[FreakyDude]

Mid 80's in the 2nd, Charlie Co. was a great time, too bad we all lost touch. I have met 2 brothers I went through Basic with though since leaving. Only one of us from my group went past the third year. As far as I know he is still in and probably getting ready to retire about now.

[Triton]

Hey there Derek
Nice to see you here you lad!
Take care
Stu

[kingtigger]

Welcome i too am new to this forum,i am ex british army and i was a tank crewman in
a cavalry regiment,i never did canada but some of the boys did and said what a fantastic
place it is,take care of yourself.
Andy

[Red Devils]

Thanks guys for the great intro to this site.

For kingtigger, your chums would have been down in CFB Suffield. I'm sure they did have a great time in Medicine Hat, excellent party town. The base is great tank country but sucks hard for the infantry.

Thanks again and take care you all.

[The Tank Man]

Hello and welcome ! Gary.