NavyShooter
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- XMU Local .303
Goodday folks,
I've been fairly quiet of late for many reasons, some of which I will not go into.
One of them is that the shooting season is upon us, and I'm busy as a rifle coach and competitor, and another is that I've got so many dang little projects on the go.
Well, here's one of my projects. I started this last year, because of a gentleman who built a little tank for his son. This was my initial inspiration:
http://www.gizmology.net/
Now, thinking this appeared to be a pretty neat little project, I investigated, and bought a set of his plans to see if I could build one too.
Well, I got his plans, and everything on his tank is made of wood. From motor mounts, the hull, even the track itself! Not bad use of materials onhand, but I got to thinking that I could build something a bit more resilient.
If I'm going to build a tank for my son to ride in, it's gonna be a kick-butt machine that's not going to stop for anyone.
So I went back to the drawing board. I started thinking and looking and collecting parts and bits, and here's a progression of some photos that document the project's early days:
One of my "must have" items was a fully functioning suspension, here's one of the swing-arms:
The trial assembly of the swing-arms:
As you can see, the initial testing proved that the suspension works!
Modifying the frame to fit the motor mounts in properly:
The motors mounted. You can see the torsion bar suspension system here, with the rods going from one side of the tank to the other.
The first fully assembled track:
Where we're at today:
I put it in Milsurp because it's going to be a Tiger 1 eventually.
Just so's you guys don't think I dropped off the face of the earth with respect to projects...
NS
I've been fairly quiet of late for many reasons, some of which I will not go into.
One of them is that the shooting season is upon us, and I'm busy as a rifle coach and competitor, and another is that I've got so many dang little projects on the go.
Well, here's one of my projects. I started this last year, because of a gentleman who built a little tank for his son. This was my initial inspiration:
http://www.gizmology.net/
Now, thinking this appeared to be a pretty neat little project, I investigated, and bought a set of his plans to see if I could build one too.
Well, I got his plans, and everything on his tank is made of wood. From motor mounts, the hull, even the track itself! Not bad use of materials onhand, but I got to thinking that I could build something a bit more resilient.
If I'm going to build a tank for my son to ride in, it's gonna be a kick-butt machine that's not going to stop for anyone.
So I went back to the drawing board. I started thinking and looking and collecting parts and bits, and here's a progression of some photos that document the project's early days:
One of my "must have" items was a fully functioning suspension, here's one of the swing-arms:
The trial assembly of the swing-arms:
As you can see, the initial testing proved that the suspension works!
Modifying the frame to fit the motor mounts in properly:
The motors mounted. You can see the torsion bar suspension system here, with the rods going from one side of the tank to the other.
The first fully assembled track:
Where we're at today:
I put it in Milsurp because it's going to be a Tiger 1 eventually.
Just so's you guys don't think I dropped off the face of the earth with respect to projects...
NS
