Adding some structure

Well, the tank has been sitting for sometime, which means it is time to work on it again. 

The first thing I wanted to do was to add a “floor” to the bottom of the tank. 

I achieved this by making some grooves out of 3mm plasticard, on either side to “support” the lighter plasticard.  This is a good idea, so you do not have to glue the thin card in a weird position onto the tracks directly.  Unfortunatly I forgot to take pictures of this step, but here is the completed floor.

The next step is to make an area for the roller to hide into the body.  This can be done simply by making an overhanging peice off of the front end.

Here too you can notice the roller.  I added on some shields from the Warhammer Fantasy Goblin Regiment.  The set is no longer sold through Games Workshop, however some gaming stores (like mine) still carried it.  If you can find one, I would highly recommend it.  Not only good shield peices, but the goblins inside are perfect for 40k grots.  At any rate, I made a simple pattern, alternating spike shields and regular ones. 

With that completed, I wanted to add a first structure where driver/gunners may sit.  Simple enough, cut out

5inchesx3inches and do 2 of those (being the front and back and then a 5inchesx1.5inches that being the top.  You will get a primative box that will set ontop of the overhanging peice we just added.

Don’t worry about the rough appearance so far, pretty much everything (in my style of building) will get covered sooner or later with trophies and superfulous things.

The last trick that I wanted to show was the addition of some orange juice pull caps to the interior of the front wheels.  When you buy orange juice, there is a plastic ring that is attached to a disk.  It looks like this

These work very well for spokes/hubcaps.  And I decided I would trim away the ring part, and use the disk for the front wheel of the tank, the ones that are slightly exposed.

As you can see that still looks rough, so I will have to go back and add something to make it look less “free floating”.

Thanks for looking, more to come!

 

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