Da Vinci Tank

[Jonas]

It looks great, I look forward to have one in my collection 

[white knight]

I'll probably need to buy one too for my Empire forces. 

[white knight]

Could you perhaps put a figure in your next wip pictures to judge the scale?

[warhammergrimace]

I'd been thinking about building one of these for my Warhammer empire army as an alternative steam tank.

[Tobsen77]

Happy new year... and a small update...



Cheers,
Tobi

[Ray Rivers]

 

That is looking very cool.

[Tobsen77]

Hi... I finished it. I thought about adding rivets or nails but imho that wouldn't fit the "original".









Diameter is 8cm, height is 7cm.

Cheers,
Tobi

[Thunderchicken]

Nice work Tobi. Will these be going into production?

[Tobsen77]

Nice work Tobi. Will these be going into production?

Coming soon

[Dewbakuk]

Looks very cool. Not wanting to pick at it and I could well be wrong, but wasn't this supposed to be propelled by a horse inside?

[Doc Twilight]

Looks very cool. Not wanting to pick at it and I could well be wrong, but wasn't this supposed to be propelled by a horse inside?

There were two different methods suggested by Da Vinci. One of them used horses, the other used a crew rotating a series of gears in order to provide propulsion. Testing has shown that the second method is much more practical, and at any rate, it seems to be what Leonardo preferred.

-Doc

[Dewbakuk]

Wasn't aware of that, cheers Doc. A couple of weeks ago I was in Venice and stumbled accross a Da Vinci invention display in an old church. Some very cool models of various inventions including the rotating cannon deck for ships but I was surprised there was no model of the tank there. Took lots of photo's of the others though

[Doc Twilight]

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

There is an exhibit in DaVinci's home town (Firenze/Florence), and they have what they claim to be a full scale reconstruction of the tank. From the photos, it actually looks a bit small to me, maybe half scale. Certainly big enough to fit three or four, but not big enough.

-Alex

[Tobsen77]

There are many different versions of this tank floating around the internet, original sketches and reconstructions. I built this with the imo best parts of all versions

Thanks for your comments!
Tobi

[aircav]

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