The Panzer V Panther!

After 2 weeks of cutting and gluing... This big tank is finished... It has 1. double layered wheels 2. commander's cupola 3. extremely big muzzle brake 4. side guards 5. removable gun and mantle...
This tank features sloped armour on all sides and was built to counter the T-34 featured below...

The Jumbo Panzer IV

After long times of waiting... I have decided to make the Panzer IV! But not as small sized as the tanks before...this one is 2.5 times the normal size of the others... The gun uses a wirelock gun and wheels are kept together by metal wirings...

The Bison I... The proposed Edmond sandcastle destroyer...

One of the newest tank now... The Bison I! Due to its huge cannon (bubble tea straw!) I installed I am able to shoot a small marble ball around 3-5m... Note: the cannon within the tank can be removed and be used conventionally..
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Revolution no.3! The Sherman Tank emerges...

Again metal wiring has helped me. I realised some tanks have wheels which is held below the tank chassis... So I used metal wirings to make bogeys for wheels, with surprising and satisfactory results, the tank wheels moved much better than last time!

The newest tank, and maybe the most notorious as a lighter... The Sherman Tank... This one's a Firefly version...

Revolution no. 2!

After long time of consideration, i realise that holding a chopstick and waiting to fire is not the way to go... So i had my chiseling set chisel a notch in the chopstick and used a U-shaped metal wiring to hold it in place until firing time...press on the metal wires... whoosh goes the chopstick...
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The Panzer V Panther

I decided to build this tank after the first T-34 cuz this tank's sloped armour and overhung gun is copied from the tank... Note the overlapping roadwheels!

The T-34/76 & T-34/85

These 2 tanks have the same chassis, but the turrets are different and they both have different guns. The T-34/76 is the one with the green colouring and the T-34/85 is the one which is unpainted.

The Hornisse

This tank is a Panzer IV chassis carrying a high velocity Pak 43 88mm gun, but the chassis is totally incorrect due to the distance between the wheels and chassis, the upperworks were remade and it has an ammunition bin.

The Panzer III

The Panzer III is a mainstay of the German tank divisions. Therefore due to its reputation I decided to build one... However the measurements are a bit off because its wheels are detached from the body, and I have passed the satay stick through the body so it is not accurate...

The KV-1

This tank originated from the Soviet Union, and is box-like in appearence, hence I decided it should be an easy tank to make. However I do not have the complete plans for it, and in the end the tracks' width was too short... The tank is spray painted in white to signify it's paint scheme in the Soviet Union during winter time.

The second Tiger tank

The second Tiger tank I decided to build was after collecting some experience from other projects, this time with a henschel turret. It proved more easy to build and was heavier, though the amount of wheels were around the same. The paintscheme was by a friend in school.

The First Tiger tank...

I was quite facinated by the tiger II tank since the first time i saw it online, so I planned to make one. However its construction was horrendous, not to mention the amount of wheels I had to cut. For the tank I had to cut 54 wheels for it, plus the turret was murder. After a while however, I felt that the turret was visibly unacceptable, therefore i scrapped the turret and mounted a superstructure on top to contain a gun...

The first revolution...

After the tank below, I realised that the rolled cardboard wheels had to go. Therefore I decided to do a little bit of testing. I picked up a picture of a Cromwell tank from a book and made a tank out of it. In the end the result was quite satisfactory, I had a new reliable wheel system...

Production moves to Penang!

Ah... Back here in Penang for Christmas... I had to stay over at my aunt's house for a moment because my house is under renovation... The first tank i made here was also the last tank to feature rolled cardboard wheels and the first tank to incorporate an operational gun. To use it, pull the chopstick pile back, load a 1cm satay stick into the ammunition chute and let it drop into the straw, then release the chopstick so it strikes the ammunition out of the straw...

Here is a picture of it: (note the rolled wheel configuration)

Humble Beginnings...

I remember when I was in Singapore, I was pretty bored... I do not go out often with any friends at all and my only time was only at home or school. Then the news came : I am moving back to Penang! Wow about time to as well, SJI school teachers are giving me a run for my money cuz of my grades! Time to jump ship... Well before the jump I still had some time to go, so i thought of the making of a tank... Since my mother was involved with Tupperware businesses, getting huge supplies of cardboard wasn't a problem.

At that time I had no expertise of anything, so the first creations are made of solely cardboard and satay sticks. The wheels are elongated, rolled up wheels which did not move well at all due to the edges. Plus i learned the valuable lesson of only using single-layer cardboard to make tanks, not double layered ones cuz they r just too damn hard to cut through. These first tanks are big and bulky and looked nothing like what they are intended to look like. The guns used are just rolled up paper to make a tube look like a gun.

Introduction...

Hi all, I am just a WWII tank fanatic who has been making all types of tanks out of cardboard since 2005, and due to developments in construction this blog has been constructed to show the evolution of production...

To start with, I would like to answer some FAQs...

Q: How do u get measurements for your scale?
A: If u studied in Singapore and gotten to secondary 2, there is a chapter called 'Similarity and Congruent'. With that chapter you can virtually make any model you desire.

Q: Where do you get your blueprints? Do you draw them?
A: Sadly, no. I am not a born artist. I just download them into powerpoint slides and print them out. To name just a few websites there are:

-www.onwar.com/tanks
-http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/1-Vehicles/Vehicles.htm

Q: What are your tools of the trade?
A: A 30cm long ruler, rubber handle scissors (you will know why later!), a compass, long nose pliers, cardboard, satay sticks, metal wires, masking tape, straws(7mm & 5mm), UHU glue, pencil & calculator.

Q: What inspired you?
A: Boredom, plus i remembered that my brother last time had a solid model of a tank made out of cardboard as well, and to mention, stress...

Q: How long does it take you to make a tank?
A: Depends on my mood...(I mean if I am stressed or not, not cuz I am a girl and have mood swings.)

Q: Do you have any other productions?
A: Yes... Artillery and Aircraft of WWII, however their numbers are in a ratio of 10:1 when compared to tanks so they are not worth a blog yet...

That sums up the introduction I guess...Lets move on...