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Frohickey ā€” One Man Tank

Published: 2007-04-05 03:37:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 2325; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 58
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Description This is a 1/2 scale model of a one man tank design I built one time. It's about five feet tall and six feet long, approximately. It's made of foamcore board, corrugated plastic, vinyl storage tubes and other junk. The rivets are made from antacid tablets.
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Comments: 18

Caffeinewreck [2009-03-09 22:20:10 +0000 UTC]

I'm totally in love with this tank! <3 awesome steampunk model!

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Frohickey In reply to Caffeinewreck [2009-03-11 01:28:42 +0000 UTC]

You should have seen it driving around... Just kidding. At the time this pic was taken, it was barely able to stand on its own.

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Caffeinewreck In reply to Frohickey [2009-03-11 11:31:57 +0000 UTC]

Looks pretty solid to me! xD

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Frohickey In reply to Caffeinewreck [2009-03-11 18:23:50 +0000 UTC]

Only gravity is holding all up. I sprinkled dirt over ares where the paint had come off or where the join was too obvious. I hated having to throw it out afterward but there was nowhere to store it.

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Caffeinewreck In reply to Frohickey [2009-03-12 21:51:53 +0000 UTC]

what a waste

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Frohickey In reply to Caffeinewreck [2009-03-13 04:37:16 +0000 UTC]

I know. I wish I had taken pix when it was just built and newer looking.

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baRoN37 [2008-07-02 19:51:41 +0000 UTC]

Very good, I particularly like the caterpillar tracks. Iā€™m glad Iā€™m not the only one who uses odd things to build odder things. Hmmm, I never though of posting them on DA though... I might have to do that.

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Frohickey In reply to baRoN37 [2008-07-03 00:06:18 +0000 UTC]

Please do. I'd like to see what you've made. ( the tracks are corrugated plastic [called "coroplast" by one manufacturer]. Just cut along the parallel corrugations one one side only and the piece folds neatly without separating. I inserted nails in the joint spaces to simulate track links.) This thing looked better when it had been built; it sat outside for awhile until a lot of the tape joints gave out. I tried to put it back together and photograph it before I threw it out. Nowhere to put it.

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baRoN37 In reply to Frohickey [2008-07-04 15:43:14 +0000 UTC]

The tracks certainly look better than on the life size Johnny 5 I made when I was 10.
I'll dig around for photos.

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Frohickey In reply to baRoN37 [2008-07-05 00:10:31 +0000 UTC]

That would be cool!

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gibsart [2008-02-01 14:17:56 +0000 UTC]

That's wonderful great idea !

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KyraFritz [2008-01-29 12:37:19 +0000 UTC]

can.. I please take this to my school...
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I wont... blow anything up..
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Frohickey In reply to KyraFritz [2008-01-29 16:38:55 +0000 UTC]

You could drive through the hallways in this.

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cybernetichero [2007-10-11 17:09:32 +0000 UTC]

er... a dalek by any other name. Awesome build! Antacid tablets rofl.

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Frohickey In reply to cybernetichero [2007-10-12 03:46:52 +0000 UTC]

It was fun to build... at least after it was finished. The antacid tablets were a useful gimmick; cheap, easy to find and available in large amounts.

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cybernetichero In reply to Frohickey [2007-10-12 06:31:25 +0000 UTC]

I was Watching season 4 of Blake's 7 this morning (When the bbc was trying to kill it so they cut off the money supply) and I noticed that the walls of their hideout was lined with food trays and there was a cargo hold with a feature wall made of disposable aluminium roasting dishes.
I haven't scratchbuilt something in a long time but it's fun isn't it?

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CountofSanCarlos [2007-06-04 22:16:37 +0000 UTC]

Thats awesome!

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Frohickey In reply to CountofSanCarlos [2007-06-05 00:10:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. It was cool to make but hard to transport.

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