Red Alert 2 - Tesla Tank

Cortex
Okay this is very interesting!!

Spanjaard
really curious about it

S M
Exciting sequel after the Mirage Tank 😄

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Welcome, comrades. 🙂
First print was okay, but I think it is still a little bit too small and I need to scale it up.
I think I need to assemble the tank first, at least partially to find the right size for the Tesla coils.

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Lately I've been tinkering with the 3D printer and there is still a lot to learn for me. But is fun nevertheless.
I'v printed some new Tesla coils and glue them together. One of them is still fighting.
Super glue seems to everything else, especially my fingers but not the model I am working on. 😄

Because I keep breaking things and don't want to lose too many details from the T90's turret I am thinking about doing a "Single Coil" setup but adding more greeblies and detail to the turret. Like some capacitors.

James C
Interesting project 👀👍

Robert Podkoński
Fascinating! I am in, of course! 😉

Torsten
I'll take a look at that, looks exciting 😎

Konrad -
Ttssssssssssssstttttttt! I can hear it 😂! Love that game! Count me in here as well👍🏻!

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Welcome James, Robert, Torsten and Konrad.
Did some more work on this tank.
In the end, I strayed from the original design and tried my own interpretation of the Tesla Tank. You could say I just went with the flow.

Added some tin wiring to create some heavy cables as well as some kind of capacitors. So far, I like the look pretty much.

S M
Interesting direction with the design 👍 Of course the dual tesla generators would have needed a different kind of turret.

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Glad you like it. 😄
Good thing is I can still build a new turret and print some more coils later.
Lately, I realized that I aim too high when doing modifications and scratchbuilding.

Quite often I get an idea and don't know how to really execute it.
When I am stuck like this for some time I begin to lose my drive which I need to avoid. I'll try that by taking smaller steps and scaling down the project and modifications.

Torsten
The wires already look very good 👍

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Thanks mate. 🙂
I am done with painting and chipping.
For the colour I went for a mix of blue and grey and chipping was done with a neutral grey and dark grey.
Next will be some gloss coats and washes, followed by some flat varnish.

The Tesla coil is a bit messy, which became more appearent with the coats of Tamiya chrome-silver. I think I need to look for glue that works better and faster with resin.

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Tesla Tank is done.
The tank is still a bit too glossy, even though I worked with a flat coat after the oil paints.

I am not so happy with the base. Getting somewhat believable snow is a lot harder than I imagined.
But what's worse is that I made the cobblestone sidewalk completely wrong. The stones should be offset from one another but I just placed them in a parallel pattern, every row.

I decided to hide it under the snow because I did not want to restart the base (again).
I'll leave it for now and maybe make a new base later, when I got the snow under control.

The tank also received a nickname that I wrote on the right sideskirt and some kind of kill marker.
Still, it was a fun project.

Torsten
It looks good and the base with the snow comes well

S M
Well finished and nice detail that nickname 😄

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Thank you very much, mates. 🙂
Yeah, I think it needed some silly nickname.

@Torsten: Thank you.
I am not completely happy with the snow but it was the first time using these products. Maybe the snow in my future dioramas will look better. I'll probably need to use a whole jar to get the hang of it.

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Thanks Kathleena.
It's not my drawing. The picture of the original Tesla Tank is from the installer guide of the game, if I remember correctly.