Project Tank 2.0 has hit the halfway mark. As of this writing, the Project Tank 2.0 GoFundMe Page shows that over €11,600 has been raised. Still it's some ways to go to hit its €20k funding goal so it’s time to put out another shout out to our very dear Popular Airsoft readers to help him achieve his all-terrain upgrade.

Project Tank 2.0 also shows  how an airsoft community takes up the cudgels for Simon “Tank” Jameson, who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare form of muscular dystrophy that has made him wheelchair bound for the rest of his life. But his condition does not deter him from playing airsoft, a game he loves playing and has Tank 2.0 enhanced airsoft wheelchair to go toe to toe (or wheel to toe) against airsoft players in Ireland and wherever his wheelchair will take him. With a very helpful airsoft community behind him, he is determined to raise funds so he can make an upgrade to an all-terrain wheelchair that can take him where his present wheelchair cannot.

Airsoft players have put out calls to help raise the funds. Matt Furey-King of the United Kingdom Airsoft Players’ Union (UKAPU) and Claymore Airsoft TV also put out a call to action to help Tank:

Hi Gents,

I'm just trying to spread the word about Simon Jameson's crowd funding project. Simon is a well known airsoft player from Ireland who fights from a wheelchair due to a degenerative disability. Regardless, Simon is a proper airsoft player, like many of us airsoft is something he's thrown himself into heart and soul. Unfortunately his current wheelchair is on its last legs and was never capable over rough terrain, so he's crowdfunding to enable him to buy and modify a HexHog off-road wheelchair. He's one of us so please donate and we can get him back out there in the field and laying rounds down.

Tank has had some great support so far, and even got on the radio, so crowdfunding has gone really well (half way there) but airsoft is still a small community so we need help from all over the world to get up to the final amount required.

Every little donation will help.

Many Thanks,

Matt Furey-King

Bodgeups Airsoft also invited their Facebook Page to go and make donation to the GoFundMe Page and also promoted a T-Shirt designed by HiWez and proceeds of the shirt will go to the fundraiser:

If you haven't heard about Project Tank yet, where have you been?!

Simon Jameson is exactly the kind of guy who personifies the good side of Airsoft. There's been a lot of negativity floating around recently, and learning Simon's story is inspirational. Airsoft means a lot to all of us, none more so than him.

Please please please check out his Youtube channel & Facebook page, and leave a donation so we can keep this fantastic guy in the hobby we all love.

You can purchase the “I Support Project Tank 2.0” Shirt by Hiwez on RedBubble.

Sim-Tac Airsoft, located in Gibstown, Meath, Ireland will be hosting “Project Tank - Fundraiser for Simon Jameson” event on the 13th of March 2016. Interested players in Ireland can book their slots now:

Ladies & Airsofters:

This Event has being put together to help and Support Simon (Tank 2.0),In Order for him to be able to Fight in all types of terrain, he has found a Company in the UK, that build these types of ATV's for Wheelchair User's His goal is €20,000.00 we know this event will not make that kind of Money, However it will contribute to the Figure he need, We plan to hold an Day of Airsofting with a Percentage of the gate going to Simons fund.

Its €25 Per Head for whoever's going, weather your playing a full or half day, with a Raffle featuring Airsoft Prizes during Lunch.

If you have been doing something to help Project Tank 2.0, drop us a message about what your activity is all about. But it is also better if you inform Tank himself about it so he can personally thank and post an acknowledgement on his Facebook Page.

More hands (and funds) are needed, let’s get Tank the upgrade he deserves!