Panther 1 35

[Willy Aucoin]

Themain purpose of this model is to build the most compact Lego tank with the Power functions system. The model is only 6 studs wide, the minimum width for having independently driven tracks. The model lacks a rotating turret, as the IR receiver is mounted in the turret. It was a fun model to design, as it was rather small, this made some interesting challenges for designing the suspension of it. The suspension consists of bogies, and each bogie is interlinked and suspended at 2 points, one in front of the M motors and one behind it. This allows the suspension to act like the torsion bars of the actual Panther. The model is very close in size to the 1/35 Tamiya Panther model that I have built. Even if the model had a Sbrick, and 2 micro motors, there wouldn't be enough space for a traversing turret/turret elevation. This will be my last MOC for this year, as I have finals coming up next week.

It would consist of the using the Ldraw importer plugin for Blender, improving model materals/basic components of applying Lego stickers as textures to a model, lighting basics, setting up a scene, basic animation and finally rendering.

Lovely! I most impressed when a (minifigure scale) model is motorized and also is very detailed. This fufills both "criteria." I remember Sariel made a Tiger I at this scale and would love to see the two together!

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