Da Vinci's Tank - School Project Help

[jmilesr01]

My son, Sean, is building a model of Da Vinci's tank for a school project.  Does anyone know of any scale plans that might be helpful.  I like to encourage any modeling projects he takes on so it will be a fun project

Miles

[Luthaaren Von Tegale]

Hi J,
I've seen a book called "Leonardo's Macines" which is full of scetches of his crazy inventions including the tank, it's also got exploded 3d pictures which should help in making a model. Not sure if there were any dimensions though.

vT

[fastolfrus]

There used to be a replica at the Bovington Museum :

http://tankmuseum.org/home

can't find it on their website but they are usually helpful with enquiries.

[Svennn]

http://pc.blogspot.com/2009/09/cool-machinery-of-day-leonardo-da.html

[jmilesr01]

thanks for the help

[jmilesr01]

Here's a picture of the final product - it looks pretty good for my son's first scratch building effort.  The tank is built around a disposable pie tin.
[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sSBSm6tXEoI/TBIyomuEYAI/AAAAAAAAAcg/FKe37VQXKO8/s1600/IMG_0644.JPG/img]

thanks for the links, they were very useful

Miles

[jmilesr01]

since the picture didn't work here's a link to my blog

http://lairoftheubergeek.blogspot.com/2010/06/school-project-da-vinci-tank.html

[Calimero]

Here you go...



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Nice work BTW

[Operator5]

Very nice. Your son may have a future as a model sculptor.

[Calimero]

It just occurs to me that it could double as a 16^th Century UFO…

[jmilesr01]

I think it's really just a URO - "Unidentified Rolling Object"

Hmmmm, model sculptor - maybe I can structure his allowance around figures I need....

[mondria]

excellent working on the horse drawn blade thingie myself He made lovely weird stuff