ww1 tank building

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Superb

[Dave]

a) Very good work. Look forward to seeing it painted.
b) How heavy is it? Looks solid.
c) When will it be motorised? 
d) This isn't going in the painting competition is it? I mean I suppose it's a Pendraken product ...

I'm looking forward to seeing it painted, its hollow made from 1mm low carbon steel. 
It won't be motorised that needs doing at the start with machining work and I would have to look at a bike chain type system for the drive.
For the painting competition I could reduce the photograph size

Thanks for the comments, I've got the basics for the diorama started a old school table, extended the width to 900mm and kept the length at 1500.  Any ideas for making the terrain I was thinking of sand based paint with extra sand and PVA glue added?

Dave

[Techno]

The one true scale ?......Pah !!

Really is rather special, Dave....Great work !

Cheers - Phil

[Leon]

The tanks complete its gone off to the body shop for titivating and painting, will get a pic once its undercoated

Dave

[Leman]

That looks superb. It looks like it should be on a monument at Cambrai.

[fsn]

By my calculations, a 6' tall crewman would be just shy of 10' tall, and a 5'6" crewman would be about 9' tall ...

Techno! Oh Techno! Bit of a challenge for you.

[Techno]

If Leon provides me with all the green stuff....I'll give it a go. (No, I won't !)

(Last time I made some 90mm tall figures, so they could be pantographed down for 30mm 'plastics', was the only time I had an allergy to the epoxy in green stuff. Mind you, I was mixing handfuls of the putty.)

Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

By my calculations, a 6' tall crewman would be just shy of 10' tall, and a 5'6" crewman would be about 9' tall ...

Techno! Oh Techno! Bit of a challenge for you.

10 FOOT tall!!? Techno, you're gonna need a bigger shaper

[Techno]

I'd noticed that, Mike. 

It'd cost **** knows...... Just for the green stuff......and it'd never fit in a mould. 

I think Nobby has confused ' with ". 

Cheers - Phil

[Dave]

Latest pics, Craig from the paint shop has cleaned the rust off the steel and put a coat of grey zinc based primer on the tank.  Hope to get the next images midweek

Dave

[paulr]

 

[Dave]

Hope to get a picture of the tank, after research on the net, comments from the tank museum land ships etc, I've gone for my mark 4 in brown, black tracks.  so trip to halfords for the best colour to match milk chocolate.  Leon's got the pic (error occurred going to my address ).  To add are the white red white strips and I think letters.  Started display with a 900mm section of rolled barded wire, base marked out ready for tank and shell holes and part of a trench system.

Dave

[fsn]

A name, Sir! It must have a Name!

"Fray Bentos" would be stirring in it's ... trench?

[mollinary]

A name is a great idea! I set out to try and find some authentic ones with a variety of searches. I came across landships  - home a google site, which has everything you could ever want about WW1 British tanks, including known names, with serial numbers and tank types, in alphabetical order!  Wow!

[Dave]

A name, Sir! It must have a Name!

"Fray Bentos" would be stirring in it's ... trench?

What about 'dodgy dave'

Dave

[fsn]

Surely the only name would be "Milady"?

[Ithoriel]

Take your pick

https://sites.google.com/site/landships/home/lists/lists-of-world-war-one-tanks-by-name

Sadly, neither Milady nor Dodgy Dave seem to be recorded as potential names

I do like the sound of

"Dominion" a Mark V which on 8-Aug-18 attacked with a piper playing on its roof!

[paulr]

Kia Ora 19 Apr 17 – f, "Gaza" tank -  2Lt Winder – 155 brig – Attacked Outpost Hill, developed Mechanical trouble and returned safely

Gets my vote even if the wrong 'gender'

[Dave]

Latest pics and diorama

[fsn]

Looking very ... chocolatey.

Two questions: Have you decided on a name? What are you going to do with it when it's finished?

Sorry three questions: What's the next project? These riveted hulls are fine, but have you thought about something with a cast hull?