Cereal Box Tanks: Grille

uhhhh - WOW!!! Now that is how to recycle some cardboard! That's amazing Kris, thanks for posting.

Takes the concept of scratch-building to a whole new level! Nice work...did you at least get to eat the cereal in the box?

 wow, that's awesome! Do you have anymore step-by-step pictures of how you fabricate the track links?

That's insane! Bravo on inginuity.

Hans would be so proud of you. I'd like to see him try it.

That is some work. Not sure if hans would be proud or jealous.

You don't do figures as well do you.

hey thanks for the positive comments. It means a lot to me coming from you guys.

as for the track links: I've been making these cardboard tanks for about 5 years now and the tread keeps evolving. For the Grille I found a pretty nice screen/mesh material at the hardware store and cut it into thin strips. Easy.

The tedious part is cutting out 300+ tiny little wedges for the twin rows of teeth inside the track.

For the spare piece track on the front of the tank I used cardboard instead of mesh.


Another one of my models that you guys might like is the MARDER III
(This one was actually featured in the FSM online reader gallery in October 2009. However I find the slideshow much more interesting than a single photo)

that is absolutley incredible!

WOW!.....   These look great. Nice job.

Nice, but Vance beat you to it on producing a Ho229 out of a paper napkin and a chapstik tube...

That's some amazing stuff. I also saw your Elefant and KT.

AKTANKS

hey thanks for the positive comments. It means a lot to me coming from you guys.

as for the track links: I've been making these cardboard tanks for about 5 years now and the tread keeps evolving. For the Grille I found a pretty nice screen/mesh material at the hardware store and cut it into thin strips. Easy.

The tedious part is cutting out 300+ tiny little wedges for the twin rows of teeth inside the track.

For the spare piece track on the front of the tank I used cardboard instead of mesh.


Another one of my models that you guys might like is the MARDER III
(This one was actually featured in the FSM online reader gallery in October 2009. However I find the slideshow much more interesting than a single photo)

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Somewhat similar in scope to the Grille. I can't decide which one I like better.

Also note the tread are of a different material/design.

KP

awesome, very resourceful! 

Bish

That is some work. Not sure if hans would be proud or jealous.

I think it's outstanding work... Paper models aren't my thing (I've scratch-built a couple, a 1/144th Avro Vulcan and a 1/48 Piper Cub), but I know talent when I see it...  It ain't easy building a scale model airplane from paper with nothing but photos to work from... 

So you could mark me down for the "Jealous" camp, Bish... That is, if I ever became a P.O.W.... 

Think I'll stick with injection-molded kits in the meantime...  Paper is definitely a medium that I'd have to relearn everything to accoplish...

Very cool......     thanks for sharing Kris

Here's a pic of me working on my Grille. Notice my awesome t-shirt.

My workbench is basically this blue tabletop resting on a bin of firewood.

A note about the Grille- There is only one surviving example remaining in the world. The next closest vehicle would be the munitionspanzer 38 t at the Patton Museum. However, both of these are believed to be in transit to new locations.

When I was photographing the Grille in 2007 I hardly even knew what I was looking at compared to now having built one from scratch. I feel like I now have every detail of that tank forever embedded in my memory.

haha, yes you probably do

that's some incredible work you're doing there, good job!

May I ask, what do you find costs more - on teh basis of similar build details?

I'm 'gobsmacked'...cheers....Kenny