Verrückter Panzer

[Aerolight]

The initial idea was to create a tank with the most helpful additions for post-apocalyptic, but then I realised that's not that mad max sooo;

"Now the gun shoots spears instead of traditional tank rounds (this is also innkeeping with the ban on modifying parts), which are far easier to use independently of the industrial arms complex and fit the blades over guns aesthetic of mad max.

There is a giant double wide dozer/shovel hybrid on the front both for creating fortifications and destroying them.

On the back of the turret is a crane, while also being arguably the most important piece of machinery in construction it also allows for display of those you deem unworthy of a place in your convoy.

The tanks itself is suspended on 5 sets of double wishbones pilfered from discarded medium duty trucks, while the general shape of modelled after tanks from throughout history on the whim of the history crazed lunatic that jerry-rigged the thing together when the world first fell apart."

Back to the Lego; the supergun is the centrepiece and is one of the few shell ejecting guns built. The gun uses the newer spring shooters (roughly 1x4 brick sized) currently in a 6 shot magazine and will recoil the barrel, trigger the launcher, open the breach and the eject the round with one smooth motion. The gun barrel moves forward on the motor loading a round then suddenly reciprocates back on a spring performing all the other operations in a split second making it look  like a real gun firing (I even made the shell cartwheel when ejected ;)). As everything is directly controlled by the barrel/recoil there is only need for one spring and as this spring does not have to contain the energy to launch the spear the spring can be relatively light allowing for multiple shots per second (the shells stream out like we all love). 

I will post picks and a vid once the gun is mounted in the turret, just had to make this post as I went from nothing to my best ever gun and tank chassis in less than a day. 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 15, 2020 by Aerolight
name correction

[Frequenzberater]

As a native speaker, I can tell you that the correct wording would be "Verrückter Panzer" :) 

Good luck with your project! 

[Aerolight]

Google translate never fails to fail thanks for the correction. 

After 2 days trying to get the old style gun to run on a motor, it worked like a real gun with a breach firing pin and ejector all separate moving pieces, I had to give up the amount of force was just to had for a lego motor + recoil springs to drive it fast enough to eject consistently. I think with some low strength springs it would be possible to make work, as I had to use a long recoil stroke of 5 studs and over FIFTEEN leavers to get everything to time properly. However I then remember a recent megablox halo scorpion that had shell ejection and watched a review to see how it worked, it used the magazine spring itself to eject the shells. Less than an hour later and I've got a dead reliable 5 shot gun that can be cycled with very little force as both the force that shoot and the force that ejects is stored in pre-compressed springs. Its also a lot smaller so will try to add a multiple magazines.