Lego Siege Tank
Lego is my hobby. I create vehicles from games and scifi movies using Lego pieces. Here is what I did in this theme with Star Craft games unit "Siege Tank" This project was done in 2011-2012.
Functions
Main function is obviously the transformation from driving mode to siege mode. This includes rising the tank on top of the tracks. Tank can be driven using Lego ir-controller. Turret can be rotated and raised and it can shoot two rounds.
Finished tank uses about 5000 unmodified original Lego Technic parts.
More my creations can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/drakmin/
Original build log (sorry for couple of missing photos) http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/56444-moc-starcraft-2-technic-siege-tank/
My girlfriend tries to give the tank some scale
Turret detached, yellow parts are Lego pneumatic cylinders.
Finished tank
Previously unreleased image
Short video (made by my brother at http://nobrainer.fi)
Finished design in "driving" and "siege" modes
Small section of building techniques used
Glimpse to the inner workings of the turret
Front and rear tracks use this mechanism for lifting the tank in siege mode
Basic stopmotion video I made to demonstrate main functions
Extra image :) Poor mans lighting setup used for creating the third photo where tank is shooting
Added 4.10.2016 to verify this is content created by me, also see my introduction https://steemit.com/introducemyself/@drakmin/hi-steemit
If you are ever looking for legos to buy let me know, I got a crazy mout of techincs. all kinds of old legos ect. :P
Hi, use http://www.bricklink.com/v2/main.page to sell Lego. It's like Ebay for Lego only. I use it all the time to purchase thousands of pieces in a colour I need :)
Oh nice ill check it out now. tyvm!
It's awesome. Have you got Twitter or FB page?
I don't have fb. These are the sites I've managed to keep pretty up to date:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/drakmin/
http://imgur.com/user/drakmin/submitted
https://www.youtube.com/user/drakmin/videos
Yes, I have seen these. I asked because I wanted to contact you there to verify identity to avoid someone using your identity. I'm going to contat you on flickr.
Ok! I will answer in Flickr. I tried to add my new accounts credibility here by posting one unreleased picture :D
Your designs are awesome. Did you work for Lego?
You should start with proper introduction on Steemit. Like this one, as example:
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@allasyummyfood/7dek2o-hello-steemit-my-name-is-alla-i-am-a-youtuber-and-private-chef-with-my-own-show-let-s-do-this
I love Lego (and SC) and I am looking forward to it :-)
Yes, i'll do an introduction maybe later today. I quess I rushed my first post too much :D Also Lego is just a hobby for me though as a kid I wanted to work for them.
https://steemit.com/introducemyself/@drakmin/hi-steemit I made an introduction too!
Very nice! Have you made full building instructions available for this?
Unfortunately no. Creating 5000 parts instructions would take many months of hard work and I'm more interested nn doing new building projects :D One of my models has instructions though but it's a lot smaller http://mocplans.com/designer/drakmin/
This make scence. 5000 parts instruction.
Do you have more photos so we can try to figure out how this monster is build.
Very very impressive work!!!!
That's incredible! wow! Thanks for sharing this with us! I'm gonna check some Lego stuff later today! :)
Thanks!
Awesome Job.
Do you have info on the circle part around the dish on the 4 legs.
Do you have more close up picture.
Great Work!!!!
Yes, it's Lego 55817 aka. Viking Wagon Wheel :)
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=55817#T=C
Great.
Thank you for the reply.
I look at the post at eurobricks,
All of the pictures that you post during the building process is not available anymore. Do you still have those by any chance. After looking at you post I start building mine but I have many technical issue.
I would love to see how you did some of the mechanic.
Very nice! I like lego too. How can i search on steemit lego blogs? The search tool not works on the site.
Hi, Thanks! I think you can click the tags like: https://steemit.com/created/lego