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Hi John

Congratulations on the two new additions to your family!

and what a nice looking hobby room!

kind regards
Tim
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Alexander and Tara doing fine. 5 weeks old now and growing. Alex came out to the garden this evening in his black baby gro to see the tiger running. He enjoyed it.

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A while back I mentioned poor smoke levels from the smoker. This is not one of the new versions. I drilled a few holes in the smoker top and smoke levels much better.

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If I have 2 smoker units can I connect one to each motor and run 2 smokers.

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John,
Congratulations on your new additions! We almost have the same birthday, mine is July 20. Fantastic looking shop and tank room. Love the PZ 4 prints on the wall. I'm impressed you get time to even work on tanks!
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Bob

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The prints were a present from Steve Lewington. 1:6 scale drawings. I have to make time for tank work for my own sanity. Nice to have a retreat spot where I can hide.

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New super detailed muzzle brake courtesy of Simon Manning. He did such a beautiful job it was a shame to paint it.

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glad you liked it john, i got there in the end, thanks for waiting. regards simon.

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I have started dremiling out my second tiger muzzle brake. Hard work. What did you use to polish the aluminium?

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Is it possible to increase volume on a particular sound on the benedini sound card. The main gun sound on my card is not very impressive.

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Hi John,

Not to my knowledge, the volume and tone controls on the TBS5 acts for all sounds as does the volume control on the Armortek amplifier module.

Dennis.

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I had that discussion with Thomas Benedini a couple years ago and he confirms that it's downright impossible, but I can't help thinking that with two sound cards and a mixer... He makes a simpler card with fewer sounds. Maybe that could be used for the main gun?

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My mg sounds are great but engine drowns out sound of gun. Electronics are a big weakness for me. I hope somebody comes up with a solution some time. I was thinking it might be just a problem with my card.

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Air support will be available soon.

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Hi John.

Superb I have been looking for one of those I have an ME109 please tell em where you got that beauty from I want one :D
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