Hi Aaron You appear to have created the unnatural love-child of an M3 Lee and a Vickers Independent! The US did actually design a steam-powered tank in about 1918- it looked a bit like a British Mk V and the steam was intended to boost the guns as I understand it. Games Workshop do fantasy tanks, as do various other wargames companies, and there's a guy on YouTube who's built a working steam tank model which is rather nice.
Nice design! Phil P On Nov 28, 3:38 pm, Cobra <[email protected]> wrote: > Worl of Tanks online game every once in a while has art compitions for > "custom" player made tanks of varying genres. A previous contest was > for a "custom" WWII era US tank. One winner was the successful mating > of a T28 super heavy tank hull with the massive turret of the T29 > heavy with a 155mm cannon. Fun stuff, eh? > Well this time around the hot topic is that of Steampunk. (Think of > the steam and hydralic powered mechanations of the movie, Wil Wild > West. The one with Will Smith.) I decided to take stab at it and > downloaded Google's free 3D program, Sketchup. After fiddling with it > awhile I came up with this. There are a lot of details and other > features I would like to have put on, but I am only learning still how > to use it. Still I think it looks > cool.http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx165/cobra9431/GrizzlySteampunkTa... > The idea is that it is a tank developed in 1876 durring Ulysses S > Grant's term of office and armed with a 42mm Hotchkiss Mountain Gun > and a .58cal Gatling Gun. Armor is 25mm in front and 13mm on sides and > rear. Power is supplyed by Dual steam boilers and overlaping road > wheels offer skid steering movement. > I submitted it late last night (or was it this morning) and hope to > hear back in a couple of weeks on the results. There have been a few > realy good designs already. It's quite a bit ofun. > > Aaron F -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat
