Saturday Fun!! 5th Anual Reichshof Tank Meeting 2024

[Peter Quambusch]

For the 5th time now, the experienced Reichshof Organisation Team (Steffi, Andreas, Peter, Lena, Lucka, and Lothar) have organised a splendid tank meeting!!!
This privately organised meeting has grown considerable over the past five years and has now become one of the biggest in Germany.

Yesterday, Saturday 17 August, the thus far biggest tank meeting in Reichshof took place. Tankers of all ages (14 months to well over 60 years of age) and origins (with the Brits being the largest group this year) participated....
Despite the weather, everyone had a blast and is keen to show up again next year.
Here are a few pics (everyone who was there is more than welcome to add more). Hope you enjoy:

THE BUILD UP:

2 weeks to go....

Final preparations, 2 days to go...

[Peter Quambusch]

The quiet before the storm...

The first participants start to arrive. One day to go....

[Peter Quambusch]

The day has finally arrived.....
And the rain as well...
All soaking wet.

[Peter Quambusch]

But the sun cama out once in a while.

After enduring the mendatory opening address by Andreas W. and his Goo...Translator )....

Engines were fired up and everybody got going...

Everybody??? No, a tiny littly village... ah tank, resisted all effords...

But then the youngest tank comander lead us on the right (left??, sorry Chris, bad memory, due to lack of sleep ) way...

And soon the mud bath was on...

The participants:

A very warm THANK YOU to all the organisers and supporters, who made this wonderful event happen!!!

[Chris Hall]

A truly brilliant event, that I feel privileged to be invited to (3 times now !). A long drive from the UK, but well worth it for the hospitality, friendship, and superb running area. Even the scary night run - we just don’t do things like this at home !
Many thanks to the Reichshof Gang, as always.

An appreciative,

Chris

[Peter Quambusch]

Oh gosh, I forgot to mention the FOOOOOODDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Food...

food....

more food...

and some more....

and guess what....

Not included in the above were cake and coffe and BBQ and night drive snacks and midnight stuffings and.....

And ALL THIS thanks to the tiredless effords of the kitchen staff under the watchfull eyes (and hands) of Steffi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ed Groenenberg]

For me it was the first time attending the meeting and it was a blast!
Some familiar faces, and some new ones for me.

The setup was superb, lot's of space to drive/ride around, sveral obstacle to take (near Lothar's Bar
and much more.

The BBQ was great, and the breakfast Superb, 5 stars!

Thank you all for a great weekend

Some initial mud removal :

[Peter Quambusch]

[media]THE DAY AFTER....[/media]

Two lonely survivors, worn out from lots of work, drained by lack of sleep, devoid of a nice rest after a stressful weekend,....

.... decided to tackle the remaining work.... (and yes, you guessed right, what that might be... )....

More food....
I spared you a pic of the cake and coffee, we had after that.....

[Marco Peter]

Together with Militracks my FAVOURITE tank event EVERY year! Missed this one - but looking forward to attending again in 2025!

[Chang]

This is the most young and cue RC player I've ever seen.

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[Paul Sparkes]

This is the most young and cue RC player I've ever seen.


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This was by far the most amusing thing to see.

[Paul Sparkes]

A video of mainly our tanks running at Reichshof, a little selfish of me sorry.

[keithbraun]

How do you find out about next years meeting? Would love to add this event to my calendar.

[Chris Hall]

Keith -

It’s not a public event - it’s by invitation only. It’s held on private land, purely for fun.

Chris
(one of the fortunate few)

[keithbraun]

Keith -

It’s not a public event - it’s by invitation only. It’s held on private land, purely for fun.

Chris
(one of the fortunate few)

That's a shame. I'll keep my eyes peeled for events next year, hopefully I'll be on the Militracks list again.