Six shot autoloader tank

[Kelkschiz]

My first LEGO MOC since i was a wee lad.

Fully RC, including shooting mechanism and gun elevation. It will shoot six projectiles from a magazine.

Please have a look at:

This is a short video of the firing mechanism:

Edited June 8, 2014 by Kelkschiz

[TinkerBrick]

Great shooting and loading mechanism. Simple, but very effective.

[JopieK]

Welcome to EB! Where are you from (Holland I guess from your accent). You did a very nice job!

[skriblez]

Very nice looking tank :) Great work

[JohnR33]

Awesome! The firing mechanism is genius. Maybe add some tracers to the ammo so we can see them better :)

Edited May 7, 2014 by JohnR33

[Lakop]

Great creation and your firing mechanism is brilliant and very effective. Would be nice to see it go off road.

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[Milan]

Wow.

Great first moc since you were wee lad! :)

Great work. I like the how you used the same color everywhere on top and black on chassis. It suits it.

Maybe it would be better if the video was shorter (5min max)

[Kelkschiz]

Thanks for the cool comments guys.

The tank is still a work in progress, i still have several ideas to improve the mechanics and after that, i plan to detail the exterior.

About the video, i agree its too long. It was my first Youtube video, i still need to learn a lot about doing that.

Ow, and yes i am Dutch, I hate my Dutch accent when speaking english :P

Edited May 8, 2014 by Kelkschiz

[grum64]

Awesome! Love the auto loader and firing mechanism.

[Rishab N]

Wow great tank and Welcome to Eurobricks!

[Paul B Technic]

Wow, that is very different and pretty amazing.

[Jullian_pdx]

Amazing in both function and form.

[kieran]

I think the video is spot on, this was a diary write-up type video rather than a presentation of a finished piece of work. I think there is a place for both. The tank looks great and like others have said the repeating firing mechanism is excellent.

[Tommy Styrvoky]

nice build, does it have rollers around the turret ring ? because that could fix the problem with the wobbly turret when driving .

[Kelkschiz]

nice build, does it have rollers around the turret ring ? because that could fix the problem with the wobbly turret when driving .

I was thinking along similar lines, at least it is on my list of improvements i'd still like to make. Thanks for your suggestion. I was thinking about doing it another way, but after your suggestion and imagining how it could be implemented, i see its a better solution.

[Tommy Styrvoky]

I was thinking along similar lines, at least it is on my list of improvements i'd still like to make. Thanks for your suggestion. I was thinking about doing it another way, but after your suggestion and imagining how it could be implemented, i see its a better solution.

either rollers of a nice snug fit with tiles will help stabilize it . possibly making the turret smaller would help too.

[Kelkschiz]

This is the mark 5-2, which is very similar to the mark 5-1. Technically it is almost the same tank except that i included a turret-ring this time. I did this to give extra stability to the turret; in the previous build the turret was a little too unstable. I also tried to make the turret even smaller. I think this turret is about 30% smaller that the previous one. I believe this is about as small as it can be unless i manage to make the firing mechanism even more compact, which I seriously doubt. Finally, I tried to detail the model a little, although I still have to learn a lot about that, I have always been more interested in technical functions. And I don't really have the right type of LEGO for detailing.

Still a work in progress:

[legomuppet9]

Very very nice tank model! It is a very elegant tank, and the firing mechanism is very smooth! I think I'll stick to small tanks, I'll never be able to produce large ones to this standard

Also I personally enjoyed the video, seeing the history of the making of it, although maybe it could be a tad shorter

Edited May 17, 2014 by legomuppet9

[Kelkschiz]

Very very nice tank model! It is a very elegant tank, and the firing mechanism is very smooth! I think I'll stick to small tanks, I'll never be able to produce large ones to this standard

Also I personally enjoyed the video, seeing the history of the making of it, although maybe it could be a tad shorter

Never say never, when i started i didn't think i could do it as well. And the video yeah, it was my first youtube video, i had no clue, but i learned a lot of things by making it and my next video will be very different. I'll aim to make my next video 2-4 mins.