Sherman tank home made

[Hein SA]

This is a scratch built running model Sherman tank I made just for the fun of it. I used balsawood for the main body of the tank and deatailing. It is propelled by the tamiya twin gearbox. It drives nicely indoors with fully functioning suspention. Enjoy



Starting construction.





































Can u see the diffirence?

[hongrn]

Your creativity is awesome. Thanks for posting the pics. Does the gun recoil when it shoots? Just pulling your chain there...

[ausf]

Considering the materials, that's one heck of a job!

Solid work, time well spent.

[Hein SA]

Hehe Thanx guys!

[TankLover]

Excellent built. You're very talented.

[ruben2005]

hi there if thats what you can do with balsa cant wait to see a tank kit you make top job

[MarkofZollo]

Fantastic work! With the right wheels and tracks it would be hard to tell the difference from an expensive plastic/metal model!
What sort of scale is it? If not known perhaps some rough dimensions?

Cheers, Dave

[Hein SA]

Hi Dave!
hehe Thanx man! Its about 30 cm long, i didn't work on a spesific scale, I just multipleid my blueprints until it looked about right for the tamiya twin gearbox The materials to build this tank cost me about 60 rands (thats 8 dollars roughly) without the gearbox, but as always the time is priceless!!

[MarkofZollo]

Fair enough, my Sherman in 1/16 is about 35cms long so that makes yours roughly 1/18.7 scale.
Really impressive, the hatches especially as I had a hard time making them. Nice work!

[Hein SA]

Here is a video of my tank driving around I use an "umbilical cord" to stear it with a simple switch controll. Was not worth making it rc.

http://youtu.be/V94tXpa4Iuc