#siegetank

[thestarcraftobserver]

Need help building a 3D model of a tank? @ehl_art is way ahead of ya!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ We're absolutely loving the schematics for the tank. Each piece has a different pose, perspective, and breaks down the key details of what makes the siege tank all come together.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Our favorite part is when @ehl_art simply breaks down the leg coming out of the sides when siege mode is initiated.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Thank you @ehl_art for allowing us to share!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 👤Art by @ehl_art⁠⠀

[thestarcraftobserver]

When you're playing a game and kill off one marine on the map as you're pushing only to find out they brought the crew too.⁠ ⁠ 👤Art by Sashimisan: deviantart.com/sashlmlsan⁠

[siegetanksol-blog]

Siege function added!

All instructions will be later.

[siegetanksol-blog]

...and after at least 20 tries I finally found good mechanism of wheal support. It wasn’t easy to find a good solution with strong connection to keep all tank on 4 points. Some unsuccessful tries are here:

All of them had one big problem: they are not enough strong to keep tank’s weight. Finally, it’s just a mechanic and after some tries I made wheals support I need:

Good luck everyone and Happy New Year!!!

[siegetanksol-blog]

Let’s rock!

Okay, which step should be first? Of course buying some Lego... and after hundreds watched lego sets reviews I picked this one, second in a row biggest set:

Hmm, it’s not so familiar with tank, but this set have much more common with final idea then others. You can find full info by it’s identifier number (42009). And full list of pieces is here. Mostly important that I have now few big and small linear actuators as well as toothed bars, motor and about 2600 other peaces to make a mechanical skeleton of the tank.

Hope it is the last lego set I bought - all other pieces as well as motors and remotes will be ordered separately. $250 are gone forever from mu budget. Sad but true, but we still have $250 left :)

And of course I definitely had fun with assembling it :) ...after 3 days:

Here is some photo from my evening workshop, but here you can find much more interesting assembling video and review.

[siegetanksol-blog]

Ready to roll out!

Hi all! It’s a story about making a StarCtaft 2 Siege tank model from Lego. From scratch. No instructions. Only hardcore. I am not a lego geek yet :), and have no baggage of thousands lego pieces - all staff will be purchased by demand.

So, here are the goals:

Budget limit is up to $500 (USD)

Fully functional: Siege/Unsiege mode, movement, tower rotation and fire (optional for now)

Remote control for all actions

Minimum number of motors, actuators and remote controls

Only original unmodified Lego pieces

And the final: in the rare case of success this model will be sold on ebay auction as well as all other purchased lego pieces :)

Instagram is here.

Let’s rock!

[glug-glug-gulp]

by Mark Petzold

Is there anything you can't do with Lego?