Event Report Antwerp 28 april 2013

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Antwerp Sci-Fi/Fantasy & Horror ConventionEvent report.

Saturday it was arena building day. Unfortunatly I had to forfait that. Work interfered. But, it was an event only half an hour drive, so we had guests in the House of Chaos.
Hospitable as we are. 5 kg of Bacon Explosion went into the oven (need to build a smoker one of these days). Beer in sufficient quantities was put in the fridge.

We also helped one of our adversaries, Mischa's("Elvis" from Dutch series 2) Pulver (who was staying in the House of Chaos), who's GP 3700NiMH's were "gone" to replace them with Zippy 2200 cells. It did hurt us.
Another ittiebittie of work was applied to a steel army helmet that was converted to a 6 kg Raptor class.

Sunday, after too little sleep.

Setting up our Fearsome Foursome.
Old Faithfull Hannibalito 3.
Maturing Hannibalito 4
Rebuild 3 of Nebelwerfer 1 (the only thing left is the spinning bar itself)
Sparkling new Valkiri.

Hannibalito 3. Battery charged, bottle filled. Trow in the arena, fight, come out of the arena, rince and repeat.

Hannibalito 4. The previous events waren't that impressive, even if it looks good on paper. Some work after the previous event, and succes this event. The limp flipper syndrome was gone completely. And then some. Flips are impressive. The arena roof ain't a lucky hit anymore. Drive kept consistent. Unfortunatly after a gruesome -but won-fight with PulveR, the flipperarm needs some extensive repairs or even replacement, the relatively thin HDPE armor has some sprung welds, but the crosswelds and woodscrews are savers there.

Nebelwerfer 1.3. Weapon was relatively weak, but shows promise. Drive was the main failure. The main axles kept on unscrewing. And we forgot the "glue". So, I'm hopefull next weekend will give us succes. As we travel to Germany for the next MMM.

Valkiri.
The Polycord Obelt drive has an inherent flaw, adding 2 PTFE guiding blocks partialy solved that. Stil not convenient to replace the belt after each fight. Also, the weapon didn't pan out at all. RPM was way lower than calculated and top speed only 1/4 of what was expected. Amp draw was low too. Even with the 15% smaller main poullie.

Unfortunatly, the last fight with Pulver destroyed 1 of the "skids", and lacking the right repair facilities we tried a test run in the arena. Result, the 2 skids now resemble something inspiring Escher.


End result. The endfight of the day was Hannibalito 3 against Hannibalito 4.
For the first time H4 won that, even with a flipperarm bent and buckled.

In any case, here you have the photo's in slideshow.