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-FINISHED PRODUCT-
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-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
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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.
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Slowly covering the mechanical hull with smooth surfaces it starts to look better:
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Hard time fitting 3 motors inside smallish cannon tower:
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I'm happy how the end result looks. Transformation into siege mode is really slow so there is room for improvement and better skill.
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-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:
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Blog entry of my other Starcraft build: BANSHEE:
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