-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: