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The main frame is steel piping, the smaller framing was done with square piping. The frame is built into the chassis of the original Jeep and is strong enough to withstand a rollover. The "armor plating" is sheets of plywood painted black and bolted to the frame.Hotspur93 wrote:Is that all painted plywood with a steel frame, or is it a steel frame with pieces of steel and plywood?
This Jeep is one of the older big Jeeps. It has a V8 360 engine, so it doesn't strain at all and the mud tires means it can get just about anywhere. Believe it or not, with only two people, the tank is actually lighter than it was stock. However, when fully loaded, some extra leafs had to be added to the suspension to keep it from bottoming out. If you want to make a tank out of a 4 cylinder, I'd think it would work perfectly fine as long as it isn't used for a troop transport.Hotspur93 wrote:Nice, how well does the motor hold up and when fully loaded. Granted you probably won't go over 15 mph on any field for safety reasons, but does it take hills and rough terrain with ease? I would assume it did having Jeep as the base, but just curious. My friend and I were thinking about taking up a similar project and we were trying to think of the best and most efficient way to do it. Meaning that if we could have a Jeep with a 4 cylinder engine be able to support the weight when trying overcome obstacles we would shoot for that just keep the project cost effective.
Thank you! We did alot of thinking and brainstorming to set it all up.fallout11 wrote:Very nice work gents, smart of you to think of rollover protection (and hence possibility) on the front end.
Also nice use of the shower pan liner to shroud the cannon's mantlet.
Is the cannon a 2" bore? If so, have you looked at Nerf mini vortex foam rockets instead of the mini tennis balls? Sadly a lot of insured fields (example: Fulda Gap at CDWC) won't let you use anything else (and it was a fight to get them approved, they've since become a scenario pball standard). Not sure about the mini tennis balls (same as doggy toy 1.5" tennis balls?), but a regular tennis ball weighs several times as much as the Nerf round, and can actually knock someone unconscious at regular (~220fps) cannon velocities.
If in fact it is a 1.5" and you're using the pet toy tennis balls, I must say that is quite clever. How does it perform?
Say no more.Black Poison Airsoft wrote: Well, unfortunately, we keep details of the gun design and performance classified. However, let's just say we used a few tricks that no other gun has and the tennis balls we shoot are no heavier than a nerf football.
That was the only time the infantry took a hit on the way out. Me and the driver were trying to find where those bb's were coming from!Tiger wrote:It looked a lot more intimidating in person, haha. Was very fun to play against... "Tank is coming! Fall back and get the RPG here!"
My favorite encounter against it was when you guys pulled down into Honshu/Coronet (day 1) and our entire team ran back towards Coronet except for me and some other guy who ran the opposite way. We ended up on the top of the hillside, just above the main road, looking down at the tank. I was like "Should we go?" until all of a sudden the back door of the tank opens and we start spraying a rain of BB's down at all of the players exiting. Got a few of them before we were both taken out, but that was definitely one of my favorite highlights from that event.