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5000 part Technic Lego Siege Tank

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drakmin Finland15 Posts July 02 2012 09:26 GMT #1 -FINISHED PRODUCT- -MAKING OF- All started couple of years ago when my girlfriend bought me a Lego truck as a christmas present. I believe it was mean't to be slightly a joke but building the truck got me hooked. Exactly how Lego's worked in childhood. I realized now not being a child I could overcome the part limitation and purchase pretty much any amount of pieces. Soon enough I had over 10000 part selection and a building goal set: working large scale Siege Tank. Might be strange that soon 30 years old man builds with Legos but I find it really relaxing and rewarding. Building process starts from the inner frame of the tank. It has to be able to lift itself + outer shell of tank. Here's first fully mechanical version which was too weak. A lot of gears slipping and rattling After many prototypes I ended up with mostly pneumatic solution. It's rather slow in action but it's able to lift the heavy tank. Slowly covering the mechanical hull with smooth surfaces it starts to look better: Hard time fitting 3 motors inside smallish cannon tower: I'm happy how the end result looks. Transformation into siege mode is really slow so there is room for improvement and better skill. -sample of structure Some specifications of the finished tank: -6 channel ir remote -siege / driving mode -fully working cannon with 2 rounds -drive forward / backward -roughly 5000 parts -4-5kg weight Comparison to menu unit: Blog entry of my other Starcraft build: BANSHEE: Available for voting to become official Lego set, click here:

NarutO Germany18839 Posts July 02 2012 09:30 GMT #2 Man... you are nuts. The banshee was already sick, but this is wow. Amazing work. Also this is not "playing with lego" ... this is engineering.

Qwyn United States2779 Posts July 02 2012 09:34 GMT #3 That's fucking INSANE! How do you build something so complex out of legos? Anything I build ends up looking like shit. I put four blocks together and call it a masterpiece lol. Wow. Just...wow.

Golden Ghost Netherlands1041 Posts July 02 2012 09:35 GMT #4 This is so cool. Thats why I like lego. Although unfortunately I don´t have any myself anymore I always really like seeing these sort of things. Makes me wonder what could have been if I had kept my collection and kept expanding it. Ah well. At least some other kid got to enjoy my legos and experience that awsome feeling I had for all those years.

Rimstalker Germany734 Posts July 02 2012 09:36 GMT #5 I am impressed. Somehow, it reminds me a bit of one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab

bioboyAT Austria1765 Posts July 02 2012 09:36 GMT #6 that's a hell of a work! i hope you know what an awesome thing you have built there. just awesome!

SnipedSoul Canada2158 Posts July 02 2012 09:48 GMT #7 God damn, that's awesome.

HoriZoNXI Australia310 Posts July 02 2012 09:51 GMT #8 Amazing!

Caihead Canada8550 Posts July 02 2012 09:58 GMT #9 WHY IS THIS NOT 5/5

MrCon France29748 Posts July 02 2012 10:03 GMT #10 Sosick :O And the size of this thing, woa.

Newbistic China2912 Posts July 02 2012 10:06 GMT #11 Incredible. You should upload a youtube vid of the thing sieging/unsieging.

iTzSnypah United States1738 Posts July 02 2012 10:08 GMT #12 Awh man I'm soo jelly. A while back I had a K'nex Rock Crawler (which I made from a Ferris wheel set(flex rods and the motor) and a variety tub). Everything was made out of K'nex execpt I had rubber bands as driveshafts and as beadlocks (I had a lot of trouble when my sipped large tires kept spinning on the wheels). It was only back and forth at a painfully slow speed and the motor had a slip thing (I guess to keep from breaking rods) so going up steep hauls you couldn't do. It flexed like crazy, to the point where the rubber bands would slip off the small wheels on the axle's. Oh this one time I was watching it crawl over a rock and the back axle snapped, took me like 5 minutes to pick up all the spacers. Then one day I thought it would be pro to watch it do a Tank Trap. After that the motor died a week later. =[

sluggaslamoo Australia4494 Posts July 02 2012 10:19 GMT #13 You just HAD to one up the other guy who made the first lego siege tank didn't you Nice work!

Salivanth Australia1071 Posts July 02 2012 10:31 GMT #14 Fully working cannon!? You must make a video.

Aerisky United States12129 Posts July 02 2012 10:34 GMT #15 What....what the hell?! This is impossibly good O_O DANG, give this man a spotlight!! Seriously, that....that is unbelievable.

MHT Sweden1026 Posts July 02 2012 10:37 GMT #16 Amazing what things you can build with legos, are you planing on making a BC in the future? Could drool over that for hours!

Heh_ Singapore2712 Posts July 02 2012 10:50 GMT #17 Damn, that's insane. You should build a viking next; that's the other transformation unit.

Deleted User 135096 3624 Posts July 02 2012 10:54 GMT #18 Amazing, can't wait to see the video. :D

Incze Romania2058 Posts July 02 2012 10:56 GMT #19 Dude, that's sick. I'm amazed that people can actually do things like this

ragnorr Denmark6097 Posts July 02 2012 11:51 GMT #20 Amazing work, you are really making me miss my legos >_>

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