Building Tanks with Lego Bricks

Learn how to build the different parts of the tank including: wheel layout, tracks, hull, glacis, skirts and turret...

Created by: John P Canepa
Brick Building Professional

What Will I Learn?

• Building strategies for how to design the hull, the glacis and armored skirts, how to determine the layout of the wheels and how to apply tracks to your build.
• How to design and attach the turret including the main gun, mantlet, side armor, rear assembly and hatches etc.
• How to use technic gears and axles to add external controls to rotate the turret and elevate and depress the barrel/main gun.
• How to determine the layout of the wheels, add the correct track size track, add a bouncy suspension to your tank and source parts.
• Learn about key parts of the tank - The difference between Tanks and SPG’s - The effective use & importance of easy to remove sub-models and angled armor.

Requirements

• We highly recommend taking our intro course, "Building from Blueprints with Lego Bricks: Vehicle Edition"
• To optimize the courses benefit, it's best for the learner to have some experience building lego kits that include sub model creation and building their own custom designs.
• Be familiar with basic Lego brick building techniques and basic parts like bricks, plates and slopes.
• The builder will need the ability to research blueprint images and other related images from the internet and use an image editor to scale and print images needed to create a blueprint template.

Target audience

• Custom Model Beginners are welcome! Builders of every skill level will find the concepts, techniques and suggestions discussed in the class helpful and illuminating.
• The Lego model builder who likes to build their own custom models and wants to take their designs to the next level.
• The Lego modeler that wants to precisely build historically accurate real vehicles in minifig scale or 1:35, 1/35th scale - the information contained in this class can be used to model vehicles, planes, ships, buildings or any other model type no matter the size.
• The MOC or display builder that wants to build models all in the same proportion.