Steve's first MOC - Tank - completed

[SteveNesta]

Finally finished it, save for a few more smooth tiles coming from eBay.

A couple of low quality pictures, while I take some decent images and make a short video.

Stats:

Length: 71 studs - Body only, excluding rear bucket

Width: 36 studs

Height: 23 studs – excluding munitions reloader

Barrel length: 54 studs

Elevation: -5 degrees +25 degrees

Weight: 4.760 Kg

13 PF motors

3 switches

8 pairs PF lights

2 Battery boxes

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Videos:

In action - Iron Man gets shot.

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The functions.

Edited June 3, 2013 by SteveNesta

[bord4kop]

Looks very impressive and very well proportioned!!

Can 't wait for the video to be even more impressed probably

Some PF functions are double? (5 remote and only 4 channels available)

Edited June 2, 2013 by bord4kop

[Doc_Brown]

WOW that's a lot of everything and a mountain of remote! Very impressive, I too can't wait for the video and pics!

Great job! :thumbup:

[tbird8057]

Do you have a nickname for that guy?

[bricky300]

Looks very impressive and very well proportioned!!

Can 't wait for the video to be even more impressed probably

Some PF functions are double? (5 remote and only 4 channels available)

I can see that the first two remotes are set to channel 1 for driving I believe he wants to have standard driving and a little more controlled driving

[DLuders]

@ SteveNesta: What a beast! I hope you have five hands to simultaneously operate all of those Power Functions remotes!

[Someonenamedjon]

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=82882 this plus your tank would just be madness...

[Lakop]

Fantastic! That looks really dangerous. I look forward to the video.

H

[timslegos]

I look forward to the video as well. I would love to make a tank with a firing mechanism.

tim

[SteveNesta]

Cheers......I'm very pleased with it....looking forwards to the final few bits from eBay. Here are some hi-res images. Will make a YouTube vid very soon.

200 - The barrel support brace is in the up position ready for driving.

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185 - The torsion beam suspension is under a lot of strain

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186 - Side profile with rear bucket in extended position, and turret support brace retracted, allowing the turret to rotate

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187 - Maximum elevation approximately 25 degrees

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188 - Turret down and stowed, ready for driving

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190 - Rear bucket deployed, turret elevated, ready to fire.

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191 - with the barrel support brace in the elevated position, the driving lights are visible (there will be 8 in total in this opening), and covered over when in shooting mode, ie, brace retracted and rear bucket deployed.

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192 - Comms tower at the rear...basically all the little bits and bobs I could find and stick together....just a bit of fun really. Smoke generators (non functional !) on the top surface at the front.

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193 - Functioning chain driven machine gun next to the turret (with the yellow ring at the end)

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194 - 4 yellow flashing hazard lights (flashing in pairs) when the support brace is extending or retracting. This is tied to the rear bucket, which also has 2 pairs of flashing warning lights when moving.

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195 - Aerials, tubes and other fixtures

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197 - Barrel support brace tucks away completely. This was a real headache lol. Battery box blacked out to keep in tune with the tank.

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198 - Barrel support brace extended.

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199 - More umbilical cords and hoses.

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[Alasdair Ryan]

Great tank,I am looking forward to the video.

[piterx]

:D this tank is amazing!

VI-DEO !!

VI-DEO !!

VI-DEO !!

[SteveNesta]

Here are a couple of videos....hope they are up to the forum's standards...

Videos:

In action - Iron Man gets shot.

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The functions.

[legomuppet9]

AWESOME work, great job

[Kronos]

That.....was.....AWESOME! Well done!

[camaudio]

that thing is a beast!

[zux]

Well, this is huge tank! I'm interested what makes ammunition to fire so fast?

[SteveNesta]

Well, this is huge tank! I'm interested what makes ammunition to fire so fast?

Two XL motors turning a cam pushing back against 2 springs from the Unimog suspension :-). If you have a look at my other thread with the build pictures and video, you'll get a better idea how it works. I've modified it since my build videos to increase the motor power and change the gearing. It's now very reliable and very powerful. :-)

Edited June 3, 2013 by SteveNesta

[DLuders]

Are you related to that big fellow Luca Brasi from "The Godfather" movie?

Edited June 3, 2013 by DLuders

[Doc_Brown]

That was really great! That tank is soo huge. :thumbup:

Fantastic job, and thanks for detailing the process so well.

...But what did Iron man doooooo?

[SteveNesta]

Are you related to that big fellow Luca Brasi from "The Godfather" movie?

That is where I took my online name from, yes :-)

That was really great! That tank is soo huge. :thumbup:

Fantastic job, and thanks for detailing the process so well.

...But what did Iron man doooooo?

Hehe he was a freebie with a Lego order. So it was either going to be him driving the tank, or getting killed by it. I took the easy option.

Edited June 4, 2013 by SteveNesta

[Doc_Brown]

Hehe he was a freebie with a Lego order. So it was either going to be him driving the tank, or getting killed by it. I took the easy option.

Hahaha, thats awesome! So what is your next moc going to be?

[Boxerlego]

Wow! That is a mammoth tank design. Awesome work. How well do the torsion bars support the tank? I would love to see the tank unload some more rounds on Iron man and turn him into Iron dust. I wonder if the next tank will be a robot in disguise?

[SteveNesta]

Cheers :-)

I'll make another video in due course with a tank mounted camera. And assuming the reloading goes smoothly, I'll unload the whole magazine and also drive over a few things to show the suspension. It is under a fair bit of strain, already pretty twisted due to the weight.

Also the 4 XL motors on channel 1 receiver are causing a few issues with cutting out. I'll see about ensuring its a V2 receiver. Been taking a little lego time off, to make sure my Lego-widow gets some much needed attention ;-)

Next MOC is then trailer to transport it. Just working up my ideas around what power functions and mechanisms that will have. So far I'm buying all the lights and dark grey stuff on eBay lol.

[jojo1997]

pretty cool but has the turret sit as far back.

I see many tanks and mostly the turent sit in the middle of the tank,