Let's talk about how to make a tank of matches

How from matches to make a tank, a palace, a dollar, a well, wheels, lamps, vases? For many, it remains a mystery how ordinary sticks can become the foundation for masterpieces! But if you delve into this hobby deeper, then you can find many nuances relating to both the material and the features of making crafts.

How from matches to make a tank to a child?

Crafts made of this material help develop dexterity of hands and patience in children. Especially this activity attracts the boys, who love to build transport. There are three ways to create simple tanks with children.

1. Volumetric drawing tank. Start with what the boy can do. Let's draw a model of the tank. And then with the help of matches and glue, give the picture volume. Also with their help "build up" trees, clouds, road. In this case, you need to help the child with the preparation of matches of a certain length.
2. Create a tank model from boxes and paper, and then glue it with matches. As the case you can use the usual matchboxes.
3. A voluminous tank of matches. First, create a drawing of the model, dividing it mentally into geometric figures: for example, a rectangular barrel, a square cab and rectangular-oval caterpillars. With the help of glue, you can recreate the data of the figure, while in front of the tank it is made sloping by reducing the matches according to the principle of the ladder.

Remember that crafts can be made from solid matches, remove sulfur heads or cut them to the desired length. In the latter case, the details should be drawn using paints and brushes.

We make a simple tank of matches with glue

With the help of conventional PVA you can create masterpieces. To make a tank, you need to stock up a visual picture, a model on which we will recreate in a three-dimensional projection. To make a small transport, we need to build five cubes, the edge of which is equal to the length of the match.

Four cubes are distributed on the tracks, and the fifth determines the cockpit of the tank. First we make a platform:

• We glue two cubes, forming a long caterpillar;
• We put the two "chains" parallel to each other so that the distance is half the match;
• Cut the sticks of the necessary length and glue the caterpillars together (if there are gaps in the cubes, then simply insert matches between them);
• The chains are not joined along their entire length, leave 0.5 cm from the ends;
• Further in front of the tank it is necessary to make a bevel ("build up" a rectangular triangle of matches) in order to convey the correct image of the caterpillars.

On the fifth cube you glue a cannon out of ten matches in this order:

• 1 row of three matches;
• 4 things.;
• 3 row, like the first.

At the top of the cube, you can glue sulfur-filled heads in the form of a circle, forming a hatch of the tank. The last step is to glue the cube to the base of the platform. Everything, the machine is ready for battle!

Tank without glue: workpiece parts

We also build a combat vehicle from cubes and small houses, which are then connected by means of matches. Houses form the edges of caterpillars, and simple cubes are the connecting element and cabin. On these geometric figures a tank of matches is created. The instruction for creating a simple cube is placed below.

• Place two matches in parallel, the distance between them should be less than their length.
• On them lay the foundation of 8 sticks.
• The next row will also be of eight matches, but the heads should be put in the other direction. It turns out that the sulfur coating of the two foundations forms an angle.
• Make the walls, shifting among themselves matches, whose heads are looking around the perimeter of the cube.
• After 7 rows lay out the roof of 8 sticks - just like the foundation (the heads look in the opposite direction as compared to the floor).
• From above perpendicularly in the middle of the roof lay 6 matches, in the center of which place a simple coin.
• Hold it with your finger, from four sides fix its position with matches, "piercing" through the walls of the cube. In the same way, you cover 6 coins with the whole coin, which you then need to pull out, and carefully form the cube.
• Flip the square and work with its bottom, which will be the front side. From each side, lay vertical match rows head up.
• Further, also insert horizontal circular rows to fasten the structure.

Under this scheme, we make 8 dice.

Tank without glue: caterpillars and cabin

We continue to consider how to make a tank of matches. To form caterpillars, we need to build four houses of four cubes, laying out the roof.

• Insert the corner matches, while the vertical sticks, starting with the second, pull the heads upwards, forming a triangular roof (seven pieces stretched without taking into account the two extreme ones).
• Now in the triangular form, you need to insert matches starting from the extreme row, two pieces, then four, six, eight, eight, six, four, two. In this case, the heads alternate with the ends to form a pattern.
• On top of the spread eight inclined matches, crossing each other at the top of the roof ends with a sulfur coating.

From one dice you need to make a tank cabin:

• Do a sloping roof on one side, with inclined matches overlapping the entire surface of the cube. In this place, then we will build a muzzle of the combat vehicle.
• On the reverse side, make a ladder, pushing out five sticks for different lengths.

Tank without glue: assembly

Well, we almost figured out how to make a tank of matches. Now the last stage is left. We connect all the details.

• At the bottom of the house, insert four matches and attach them to the cube.
• In the same way, you insert four sticks into the cube and connect it to another "house".
• It turns out one caterpillar.
• You also make the second chain.
• In the free cube on both sides, insert four connecting matches.
• Carefully join this cube with the medial cubes of both caterpillars.
• From the bottom of the cockpit of the tank insert four connecting matches and thrust into the central cube connecting the caterpillars.
• Make a muzzle of the tank from the sloping side - from eight matches forming a square into which you thrust four more matches forming a muzzle.

As you can see, it is not difficult to build a tank of matches with your own hands. Just remember the three rules: 1) purchase all the material at once; 2) draw a diagram of your product; 3) collect your project slowly and accurately.