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KAOS Mk III Tank: HELS Jabberwocky

  • 14th Jun, 2005 at 6:49 PM
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Jabberwocky framework, not including sponsons, tracks, top rigging or carapace. Top, left side and bottom views.
HELS Jabberwocky

HELS Jabberwocky at Otago in August 2004

HELS Jabberwocky at Otago in August 2004

The Project Pump page containing photos of Mks I and II can be found here. More in a couple of days.
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[info]lilmissmilitia wrote:
14th Jun, 2005 07:20 (UTC)
For some reason, I misread the paint on the ground as saying "No Chance" o.O
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[info]xenogram wrote:
14th Jun, 2005 07:25 (UTC)
No chance at all
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[info]mudlam wrote:
14th Jun, 2005 14:11 (UTC)
That looks much more finely constructed than the original battle tank. You're direction is improving with age. Or perhaps your minions have become more talented. (Don't front, we all know who's really in charge.)
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[info]xenogram wrote:
14th Jun, 2005 15:03 (UTC)
Thanks. The frame is pretty much unchanged from when you were cruising around in it; we built those sponsons, finished the detailed tracks and made a new cover (carapace).

It was a lot of work (and I do have some quite talented minions, even if the design was mine; I couldn't have done it without them), but it was worth it. Unfortunately, a lot of the bits (half the struts and all the bolts) went missing shortly after we shipped it back to Christchurch, and need to be replaced.

Those anti-shipping mines were a lot simpler to build, and you can swing them around your head too:
beachball anti-shipping mine
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[info]memcf wrote:
14th Jun, 2005 14:17 (UTC)
Needs bigger wheels. Those ones look like they might get stuck in even a bit o' mud. Modern baby buggies actually come with these mid-sized (1 foot-ish) knobbly tires. Apparently babies off-road. Maybe you can find some. Tires, not off-roading babies. You'd need to hook them up higher in the chassis so it wouldn't ride so high that the "tread" would not be near the ground, but that shouldn't be too hard.
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[info]xenogram wrote:
14th Jun, 2005 14:42 (UTC)
The wheels are fine. They're double pram wheels, about 15cm in diameter (the front and rear sets swivel allowing you to rotate the tank around the 8 center wheels). Don't let the picture fool you, this tank has mostly seen service on the grass, no problems.

If the wheels were larger we'd have problems with turning, we'd need to spoil the line of the tank with wheel arches or mount the wheels internally (which would either cause a structural weakness or require us to increase the weight and complexity of the structure)
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