3D sculpture of Knox Battle Tank
Knox Battle Tank
After some discussions on the Confontation US discord, the Knox interested several players, I decided to sculpt it in 3D. I have to say that even if it takes time, I find that the architecture side is easier to realize than a humanoid.
I tried to ask the rights to the artist of the profile (Guitton I think) but no return either by facebook or his website. So impossible to sell such a realization without the authorization of the author. Too bad, it will be free available for download.
Here are 2 pictures of the profiles I was inspired to create my version:
I'm not too enthusiastic about making a crane at the back because I think it's ugly and will interfere with access to the opening to carry troops. This might be an option for those who want to print it.
I feel like I'm getting younger by making Lego because I want to be able to do this at 32mm scale, so with the possibility to carry 4 to 5 figures ( ability included in the Confédé version). Now, thanks to the magic of digitization and 3D, nothing will prevent me from printing at the scale I want, as long as I don't go below a certain thickness of part to avoid breaks.
So, designing everything from scratch would be rather time consuming, so I decided to use about 50% of parts made by other artists and modify them and then create the missing parts.
Here are some specific pieces created for this model:
Testing the cabin from scratch:
Different steps:
In the end, this does not correspond 100% to the concept, but it is very close to it:
There are still a few details to deal with and especially the cutting of parts and connection systems (pins, rods, assemblies...) to be able to do a 3D printing and check that everything is well combined.
So, everything was going well until now with my Lenovo L340 i5/8GB/GTX 1050 3GB laptop, but as I keep adding elements, it's getting slow, sometimes I have to wait several minutes for some changes. I just ordered 16GB of RAM, I hope it will be enough, but anyway I can't do better without changing my machine and I don't have the means for that.
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