Da Vinci Tank

[Tobsen77]

Theres a half Scale (i think) model at the Bovington tank museum, im sure it says on the plaque that it would not have worked 
Keith

Yeah right... and dragons can't fly. Pffff 

[white knight]

I guess my main practicial comment would be that given the number of guns, it's probably too small to accommodate the gear and number of crew required to make it move AND operate all those guns.

But who cares about that really? 

[BaronVonJ]

I did this years ago. Yours is closer to the original.
http://baronvonj.blogspot.com/2008/01/leonardo-tech.html

[Dewbakuk]

Would love to see some of those photos, Dewbakuk:)

Worked out how to get the photo's off my phone 

Here they are http://www.flickr.com/photos/28016805@N00/

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Those photos are just too cool.
I love the anti-ladder poles!

[Dewbakuk]

Those photos are just too cool.
I love the anti-ladder poles!

They are just begging to be put into a castle build aren't they

[Doc Twilight]

Great photos, Dewbakuk! Thanks for sharing!

Prototype experienced some mailing difficulties*, and is not yet here, but should be here shortly.

-Alex

* - Some sort of East German agent has been playing havoc with Tobi's mail;)

[Doc Twilight]

Well, Leonardo's tank finished it's tour of the far reaches of the earth and arrived on my doorstep today. Actually, it arrived at my front gate, and the DHL left the front gate open, which subsequently meant that the Dingo (Claudius) who had been outside sunning himself, decided to take the opportunity to go out for a walkabout around southern California...

Fortunately, both Claudius and Leonardo's tank are here, safe and sound, at the moment. This is a real gem of a piece, and it's a breeze to put together. Only separate bits are the cannon barrels. Methinks this will do well, me does. Hope to have it off to the caster, soon, but I'm still waiting for them to master the Filatov.

And incidentally, the most recent tests on Leonardo's design have shown that it -would- have worked. The problem with earlier tests was that not all testers realized DaVinci's little "trick". In addition to writing backwards, many gears were placed -backwards- so that someone who wanted to steal the design would fail at replicating it. It's amazing how many of Leonardo's designs have since been found to be quite workable by simply reversing the position of a gear, switching part "a", with part "b", etc.


-Doc

[white knight]

Still looking forward to getting this!

[Jonas]

It is also on my list of wants for the future 

[fastolfrus]

Theres a half Scale (i think) model at the Bovington tank museum, im sure it says on the plaque that it would not have worked 

Probably means that they couldn't get it through the tank assault course :~}