Stimy

thanks for the suggestions phoenix, at the moment it looks like it's holding together, I've also made strengthening parts in between the hulls to keep it all together. about the side pieces in tan, this will be difficult as there are no pieces small enough to span the edge and not be too thick. I'm still busy incorporating the drive system of the sponson canon, the rotation is working as far as I can see in LDD (I don't think there is an option to virtually power a motor in the LDD design?) I am now working on getting the servo motor connected for the elevation, due to the lack of workspace this is not an easy job. We'll get there ventually, I'm in no rush to get this model finished.

Hello, My real name is Bent Devreker but my nickname is Stimy. I live in a small rural town near Turnhout in Belgium. My other interests are - 4x4, I have my own Suzuki Samurai to play with, - oldtimers, I regularly compete in navigation-rally racing with oldtimers. and get-togethers with other oldtimer people. My interest in Lego started as 99% here at a young age. as the smallest of 3 and having an older brother, the Lego stockpile had already been getting bigger and bigger. I always used to make cars and trucks etc. the older I got, the more complicated my constructions were getting, up to the point where i motorized the whole construction with just 1 Micromotor and a lot of rubber bands. Now that I am coming closer to my 30's I got interested into Lego again after watching movies from Sariel and Tommy Stryvoky. Thus the first project that I buit was the 8109 tow truck, now I am currently designing a Lego MK V tank in scale 1/16-ish. I got my inspiration (and most of my dimensions and building ways) from the pictures form Sariel's MK V, but I saw that some parts could be made better. A small picture to show you where I am at for now. greetzzz, Stimy

This is on a whole new scale than what I am used to, and you just shake those design out of your pocket like it is nothing thanks again Tommy. I guess my engineering knowledge is not what it should be for this One more question, is there somewhere a How-To-Use Bricksafe? I've uploaded my model there but can't seem to import it here

Good idea Tommy, will give that a try! thank you guys a lot for these tips & improvements, I still need a long way to go to get up onto your level of expertise. I am now working on the sponsons and incorporating the M motors in the hull. the rotating of the gun will not be that difficult, the traverse will be more difficult but we'll get there. I also notice that you are using a different program than the Lego Digital Designer, which one is this and what are the benefits? A different questions, how is it that the space between my text is much larger than yours?

Hey Sariel, I've included a picture, under the 1x8 & 1x6 bricks resembling the rivets the colors from the previous blocks are visible, they keep the construction together. by making this picture I found out that I used the wrong red brick as the nose piece was only connected inbetween eachother by 2 half pin studs and would probably fall of pretty fast. The top part however is not connected & I will see how I fix this problem when building my first mock-up. maybe use a 2x... brick and strengthen it from below so it is not visible?

Hello Sariel, I tried some things: - strength connections in between the hulls to keep the parts together (net yet confirmed that they effectively work) - it is possible to insert a half pin with stud into the high brick & the small piece into the low inverted brick. these connect. the problem is that these leave a small gap in between them, i've cheated to try it out and found out that it is possible, I admit that this is "not done" in Lego-builder terms probably. this will be decided when I'm building the model. pictures below Modified version I hope that it is not a problem that my model is largely based upon your MK V as I do not want to start a war here (that pug & hamsters are unbeatable ;) ? As for the progress, last night I've completely deconstructed the sponsons and started redesigning them to include the new gun model from Tommy I also did some remesurements and found out that my sponson was to big,

Wauw Edwin, truly astonishing work. really love the helipad & overall detail of the model.

Thanks a lot Tommy very kind of you to share these designs!! I saw that you were planning to build a MK V also? This design looks a lot more natural than the one I have now, didn't even think that far to use the roof tiles. For the motoring system I need to update myself as I am used to working with very old lego systems :P As for the interior, I want to make a full detail model but I think that the motor system will take up a lot of place for this? Or maybe I could make a false floor and hide it there? I want it to look like the reel steel version, so warhammer might not be perfect for this, but a good idea for future projects, thank for the advise Neonic!