How to make a tank from LEGO using the most common parts

Design kits LEGO are good because they are designed to build a peaceful technique. Bright cars, passenger and cargo planes, machines intended for construction and communal purposes, all this from childhood, accustoms the child to the idea of the preference for creative work. However, there is also the profession of a defender of the motherland, and, therefore, military equipment can also be modeled. This story is about how to make a tank from LEGO.

Element base

The details of LEGO, the so-called "bricks", are so universal that they are suitable for creating mock-ups of anything. Most of any designer consists precisely of them, but there are also special elements designed to assemble a specific type of equipment.

Before you build a tank from LEGO, it is best to understand what it is made of and how it is constructed, and then pick up the appropriate details.

The easiest way to use a specialized kit, which is designed specifically for the construction of armored vehicles. In the catalog they are, and thought out so well that the model is very similar to the prototype, for example, the Russian T-90 or the German "Panther" of the war. There is even an electric drive and a remote control. True, these kits are almost like a real tank, but this only strengthens the similarity. Another disadvantage is that in the shop windows of shops LEGO military tanks are rare, and civilian even less often (they do not happen). Since access to specialized sets is limited for the reasons mentioned, only one thing remains to be done: to operate on what is, namely, to take as the basis the most common range of parts. But the way to make a tank from LEGO can be borrowed from "military" technologies.

A real tank consists of their undercarriage, armored hull with engine compartment and a tower. Let's start with the first paragraph.

Chassis

High patency of armored vehicles is due to its caterpillar traverse. There may be certain difficulties. Caterpillars in LEGO are rare, but sometimes they are in kits for assembling excavators or tractors, still come in the series "Space Wars" as an element of the construction of the chassis of planet-walkers. In general, if they are, then it's great. And if not? How to make a tank from LEGO without caterpillars?

First, they can be made from the rubber of an old inflatable camera from a bicycle. It will not be so spectacular, but quite on the level. Secondly, there are wheeled tanks.

The chassis consists not only of caterpillars. The main thing - the wheels, or, to put it in the language of these tankers, rollers. They are of three types: leading (usually rear), guides (front) and support (all others). This is for caterpillars. And for the wheel they are all the same and are arranged in a row from each side. The number of support rollers in modern machines from four to six, and they are attached to the bottom with the usual part of LEGO, a square 2 x 2 with a semiaxis.

Housing and tower

If the chassis managed to cope, then all the rest will go like clockwork. There are many options for assembling an armored hull, but in order to make it more realistic, it should be remembered that it is proper to make a frontal reservation oblique, so that it is more difficult for the projectile to break through it. The same applies to the tower, which in the ideal case should create conditions for rotation. No special details are needed for this, but what is needed is imagination and spatial imagination. Well, patience, of course.

Tower tool

The main problems in the construction of the tower can arise when installing the gun. It is best if the barrel can be raised and lowered. To do this, the tower should provide a vertical slot in which it can move with a change in the angle of inclination. By the way, do not call the barrel a muzzle, so the tankmen do not say. If anyone is thinking about how to make a tank from LEGO, then it should be followed by professional terminology. A muzzle - this is only part of the trunk. Long enough and round in a cross-section of a detail in standard sets LEGO is not present, therefore it is executed from cylindrical "kegs", connected in series.

So, the tank is ready. By cars, and go!