Anyone wanna help an amateur?

QUOTE: Originally posted by Poniatowski devanshj, Welcome to the forum! We used to make solid wood tanks when we were kids. Like everybody else said, get some reference material for scale and go from there. We used to make the upper and lower hulls, turrets and tracks (we didn't do individual road wheels), all cut to shape, then detailed. This would mean adding hatches, fenders, exhaust pipes and such to the hull; hatches and main guns to the turret. We used what ever we could find from old tin toothpaste tubes, now they're plastic, to nails, wire, string, screen, card board or what ever to detail the tanks. Mine always looked like wood with a bunch of garbage added to it, but my brother and his friend made some really nice Tigers. It was a lot of fun. Ron

Well, Ron, now we know where you started learning your scratch building skills!

QUOTE: Originally posted by t3488g ausf: your joking about the Carbon monoxide binds faster with hemoglobin than Oxygen or Carbon dioxide. right? i'm 15 and i would probaly want poke my eye out if i heard a converstation like that[:0] here is a very good site for wwii tank blueprints: http://www.onwar.com/tanks/index.htm

No joke! And like I said, HE started it, not me.

Hey thanx everyone for the help, I will be lloking into all the details and as soon as I have success with something i'll follow it up. Any more suggestions are welcome...thanx again

ausf: your joking about the Carbon monoxide binds faster with hemoglobin than Oxygen or Carbon dioxide. right? i'm 15 and i would probaly want poke my eye out if i heard a converstation like that[:0]

here is a very good site for wwii tank blueprints: http://www.onwar.com/tanks/index.htm

QUOTE: Originally posted by ausf He says he can't wait until he's ten so he can get his first glue-together Tiger. Last week we had an hour long conversation about why Carbon monoxide binds faster with hemoglobin than Oxygen or Carbon dioxide...he started it, not me.

LOL! I could've used your help when I gave my kids the 'birds and bees' talk.. I think you'd have been much more informative than I was!

Ron

QUOTE: Originally posted by Poniatowski ausf... your son sounds like a cool kid. Ron

He says he can't wait until he's ten so he can get his first glue-together Tiger.
Last week we had an hour long conversation about why Carbon monoxide binds faster with hemoglobin than Oxygen or Carbon dioxide...he started it, not me.

ausf... your son sounds like a cool kid.

Ron

Welcome,
Spamicus hit on my suggestion, my 4 year old son takes my junk 1/72 kits, traces and makes paper models from them. Obviously that is pretty crude compared to what you want but it illustrates the concept. He gets to see how parts interconnect to form a structure and it's kinda cool. You might want to think about trying a Tiger I, they are basically a box with a horseshoe on top and you will find gobs of reference material on it.

devanshj,

Welcome to the forum! We used to make solid wood tanks when we were kids. Like everybody else said, get some reference material for scale and go from there. We used to make the upper and lower hulls, turrets and tracks (we didn't do individual road wheels), all cut to shape, then detailed. This would mean adding hatches, fenders, exhaust pipes and such to the hull; hatches and main guns to the turret. We used what ever we could find from old tin toothpaste tubes, now they're plastic, to nails, wire, string, screen, card board or what ever to detail the tanks.
Mine always looked like wood with a bunch of garbage added to it, but my brother and his friend made some really nice Tigers. It was a lot of fun.

Ron

Welcome Devanshj. Most any of the Osprey reference books on tanks have very good 1/76 scale line drawings of the subject. These can be up scaled with ease. Just a suggestion, you may want to get an inexpensive plastic kit that suits your fancy and build it. Then you'd have a very good idea of what it's going to take to build in wood. My two cents.

claymore68, Thanks for those links I will check them out and follow up on that, well its great to know you family near CMU, let me know if your ever coming by, but I wont be in America till atleast one more month I believe, anyways my email is devanshj@hotmail.com...thanx

devanshj: For ships try http://www.bluejacketinc.com/ and http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/shipplan.htm for starters.

For tanks it's a little harder. George Bradford has 1/35 scale drawings of armor available. These are 4-view drawings but could be good to get an idea or basic hull/turret from.

BTW: I have family living near CMU.

claymore68, I am actually interested in tans and ships equally, I also like autos but thats not something i want to do at the moment, I am really interested in tanks and ships both. what detail do I need to provide? sorry for making this hard but I am really very new to this and I am not very familiar with this, But i am very interested in model making, I have always been i just realised i should pursue it now....thanx for your time

to FSM.
If ypur primary intrest is ships head down to the ship category, there's a group there that are more than happy to help.

If it's tanks you want give us some kmore detail and we will help as much as possible.

First, welcome to the forums, we are glad to have you aboard.

Second, a good place to start any search is google.com

Finally, before we can send you all the information you will need, I think you need to narrow down your requirements. What era are you looking to model, from what country, and perhaps more specifically, what tank? These are some valuable questions to ask yourself before embarking on such an ambitious project. It will also help us get you the information that you need.

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