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I've done some searching, and couldn't find another mention, so I thought I'd pass this on. I discovered a good source of cheap styrene spheres and hemisperes: Fishing bobbers. I had read awhile back a passing reference to a fishing bobber being used as the bottom of an iconic robot, the Neuspotter....

Interesting backstory, and the tank design looks promising.

Kylwell wrote:As a note, for those of you in search of inspiration or a turret, the shuttle part of the ST Vulcan shuttle would make a nice base to build a turret from.

So does the forward pod of the Klingon Battle Cruiser, inverted.
And the whole main hull of the smaller K-7 from the three ship set.

The fans from Brazil are on hold at the moment-I got distracted building this 'grav battleship' from the Grav Armor game. Its one of the Titan class of heavy tanks, described in the rules as a 'land battleship' akin to the ancient T-35 & Neubaufahrzeug tanks of 20th century Earth. I've always ha...

Disc-licous! Looks like a cool design-looking forward to seeing her in paint. Good backstory, too.

Just one teaser shot for the moment-these are the forms for the hulls of the three builds I'm planning*. Inspired my MaK concepts, the two smaller hulls are 1/76th, while the one on the right will be 1/35th. These are from a purely conjectural "Brasil", a member of the Galactic Federation ...

Ed asked me if I'd post his build pics-and here you go: HT-1 HT-3 and on the subject of the builds themselves, he said The attached pics are the major components of my hover tank ( you could say that they've recently arrived at the factory where they will be assembled into the working prototype ) At...

I believe thats French for "Don't tell Walter his cow is missing."

Looks interesting so far, and I much relieved: it looks nothing
like my builds.

Looking forward to it-its terrific so far. I don't know about modeling board ( is it something like Resnshape?) but for surfacing regular insulation styrafoam I've had good luck using Elmers Wood putty. Smooths with water, dries quickly, and its cheap. Still quite delicate, so I wouldn't reccomend i...

Kylwell wrote:Can we go back to talking about floating tanks now?

Well, I thought I was. I'll post my work when I get to it and keep my
peace in the meantime.

EDIT: and that was unwarrented snarkiness as somebody who
doesn't deserve it in the least. Robb, I'm sorry. Not one of my
better days.

You have heard about the Battle of 73 Easting, correct? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_73_Easting Not directly, and it appears I was wrong. Ground technology* and training seem to have been at least as impotant as airpower. EDIT: An interesting article from The Economist . I don't keep up w...

One Zero mused MBTs in Irag and Afcrapistan haven't been used for tank v tank mayhem. So do you need all the mass and armor and weaponry? Or does your hover-mayhem-device need to be more like a UAV .... lurking around unnoticed until that high value target appears? The lack of a desert Kursk was mo...

some of my earlier grav tank builds.

Old 69(1)

Old 69(2)

Old 69(3)

SSC drone command car (above)

drone command car (below)

TY-34

striped

Well, this should be interesting. I'm going with a MaK build as well,
though I'm not so far along. just started the forms this past sunday.

My stuff is going to be more along the lines of scout vehicles, in
any event.

here's the pages from the Starship Modeler store that list the number of engine bells, and other thruster types they carry. I've used both the Kotobukiya and Wave engine bells and the Kotobukiya releases tend to be a little more detailed, but they're both pretty good. http://www.starshipmodeler.com/...

I'd call it an assault gun as the main armament appearsss* to be fixed in the foward arc, but other than that, its a sharp looking design. You do favor the curvaceous in your aesthetic, don't you? :) I agree with you about FichtenFoo's Martian hovertank, but the Lunadiver is a space craft pure and s...

MacFrank has a very good article on DIY photo-etching on the main site.

http://www.starshipmodeler.com/tech/fh_pe.htm

Just as the tank increases in sophistication, so too will the land mine. I could see something more akin to a camouflaged launcher ( a fiberglass shell resembling a boulder, or a fallen log, for instance ) scattered about the landscape. A sudden variance in local gravity might trigger something like...

Argh. Well, back to the drawing board...

Looks nice-luck with the build.

HWR Mk II wrote:

ONE RULE! You CANNOT use a already existing tank kit off the shelf for the main hull components

Thats from his first post on the subject. Seems fairly clear to me.
( I added the italics for emphasis, but thats it. )

The final decision would be up to the originator of the challenge I, suppose, but I don't see why it couldn't be some form of support vehicle. I don't think there's a ban of existing armor kit components, just on their unmodified use- no Pzkw IV hulls with jets on the side, for instance. But if you ...

onezero wrote:
.... hmm. Do I have any neon green paint?

If you don't, a rudimentary lathe can double as an emergency paint
mixer.

I gotta ask-where is your current sig line from?

Thats going to make me go back and re-read Piper-I haven't picked up anything by him in years. No clear plan at the moment, though I'm hoping this challenge will spur me to finish rebuilding the vacuform box I started about five years ago. I have a form based on an old 'SF3D My Original' ( the fan d...

Such as...? Not raggin', genuinely curious. Any kind of Grav vehicle is almost certainly going to have to use some form of nuclear power, I thought...but reflecting on it, it would sort of depend on how your AG system worked. If its an active system, actually levitating the vehicle, then I could see...

I'll suggest we have seperate categories, and standards, for Anti-gravity
and Air-cushion vehicles.

This goes along with my "Why Are Somethings Just Not Made?" thread on this forum. Yeah, WHERE are the hovertanks and anti-grav vehicles? Star Wars has produced a couple-the Snow Speeder being the most famous example, the Trade Fed tank being another. Tanks having larger crews may be part ...

Something like this?

It uses the concept of the S-tank, but its all from sheet styrene and
the spares boxes.

Some of the best thinking I ever ran across on the subject of Hover
tanks and their gravitic descendants was in the pages of the old
Traveller supplement, Mercenary.

Indeed, Welcome to SSM! Very nice work!

Building kits is easy! Finishing them, thats work!

Building a disc-form is a tough place to start, though-good luck,
and remember your comrades are here for you.

I am now one of the faithful to this flock. This stuff works great, and sands much easier than Magic Sculpt, which seems like sanding concrete when compared to this stuff. :twisted: Is that the paste or the putty you're talking about? I've used A+B putty for years, and while I like it, it does get ...