Khargan Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 man you REALLY have to add in a home security camera system in it... drive it out the house in comfort shooting at annoying children... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Yellow Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 How much internal space is the 1:12 scale going to provide? Depending on how many rounds you want to fire etc. you may need a fairly sizeable CO2 canister. Would have thought air soft would have been much easier and a space saver. Could just cut up a cheap BB gun that has an electronic reload mechanism perhaps then stuff it in the turret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witty Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 A larger co2 tank shouldn't be needed, find a little 3.5oz tank (they're designed for pump-class paintball markers) and you'll easily get 200 shots, depending on the marker platform you scavenge for the project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crynn Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 If you pull this off you are a god! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 If you get the opportunity, I'd love to see the results of, ahem, a live-fire excercise. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NecronGovernour Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Remote Controlled driving and turret moving. -Laserpointer aiming for turret. .50cal paintball. Can't be long before this thing turns into an autonomous robot, patrolling the neighbourhood FOR THE Emperor. Great project! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyrMadclaw Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I will connect them with 0.5mm brass rods to make the treads. You'll need to be real careful with the torque of the drive engines. I'd be afraid that the shear point of the brass is a little too low and that aluminum tracks, with a little torque, will snap them like twigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Melvin Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Remote Controlled driving and turret moving. -Laserpointer aiming for turret. .50cal paintball. Can't be long before this thing turns into an autonomous robot, patrolling the neighbourhood FOR THE Emperor. Great project! Autonomous? You speak heresy brother. The Adeptus Mechanicus will censure you for that. All you need to do is lobotomize a squirrel and you can have Power of the Machine Spirit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinks Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Autonomous? You speak heresy brother. The Adeptus Mechanicus will censure you for that. All you need to do is lobotomize a squirrel and you can have Power of the Machine Spirit. Hahahaha i can see it now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
commander alexander Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 ahahahhahahahah, Thats Sig. worthy. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ring-around-the-roses Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Why lobotomize a poor squirrel, thats what little siblings are for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hieronymus Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 I will connect them with 0.5mm brass rods to make the treads. You'll need to be real careful with the torque of the drive engines. I'd be afraid that the shear point of the brass is a little too low and that aluminum tracks, with a little torque, will snap them like twigs. I'm not stupid. I upscaled my designs and goals a couple of times since the conceiving of this tread and what I said there would be for a 1:56 size model to build, but at the end of the day I want to cross with it and shoot. You don't need to worry about me building it to light. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel Company Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 As a journeymen machinist, I'm really interested to see how this turns out. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hieronymus Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 As a journeymen machinist, I'm really interested to see how this turns out. :lol: If you have access to CNC machinery in your spare time and are willing to work with metric sizes(the original miniature is metric; thank God.) I could send you the drawings when I have finished them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hieronymus Posted August 6, 2011 Author Share Posted August 6, 2011 http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a64/OlMoth/NieuweAssembly.png Looks like much the same as what I already posted I guess but I started again from scratch and on the right scale. What you're looking at is about 36 pieces of aluminium varying in thickness from 4 to 8 mm with a weight of 2,7 kilograms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_Heart_69 Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 We're all counting on you to fulfill our dreams we're too lazy/incompetent to begin thinking of carrying out. Best of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaplain belisarius Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 a remote controlled predator would be awesome! good luck and hope it goes well...;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hieronymus Posted August 7, 2011 Author Share Posted August 7, 2011 Obligatory update for this evening: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a64/OlMoth/Rhino2.png Simplified some parts and made new ones. Current weight: 4.5 kilograms. I think I'll paint it in Ad Mech colours when I am finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaplain belisarius Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 and have a techmarine or techpriest poking out of the turret? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan-096 Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 i reckon you should make more when youre finished. if you could legally sell these, they would go like crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood4thebloodgod Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 As crazy as GW is about selling their products online I highly doubt you will be able to sell them... but I would totally buy one if you could make it true scale :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Yellow Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Don't think you can get away with selling the kit, but pretty sure someone can commission you to make one (kit or tank) for them. Would be like GW trying to stop you from building and painting an army for someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hieronymus Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 I have never even thought of that but I'll keep it in mind if someone asks. This week I'll be ordering some industrial rubber to cast the tracks. The tracks will be milled aluminium pieces stacked on their side with cast rubber around it with the grip pattern that the miniature rhino has. When I finished that drawing I'll post it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hieronymus Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 I have been away from this project for some time due to school and gaming and still figuring out how to do everything. I know, I'm as changing as the wind and I have changed my mind on some issues again. scale will become 1:14 because 1:12 gave me very unconventional sizes I should use and fabricate and 1:14 lets me use stock material we have at the shop and that saves work and effort. Paintball autocannon and smoke generators in the exhausts and remote controlled is still the name of the game. But I'll give it extra armour because I like the revised Forgeworld kit and bought it. Sponsons are tricky to make the Heavy Bolters so I'm thinking about giving him Missile Launchers like the kind dreadnoughts walk around with for sponsons. But I also heard there might be a plasma cannon kit coming for the predator and that sounds nice. I have begun all over again for like the 3rd time, at least my drawing skills for this program get some good practice haha. The result so far and will continue with it.: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a64/OlMoth/PredatorReinforced-1.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightHunters Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Build it, just build it, so strong! FTE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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