JFG

Are we sure he's just not really big?

@Ω βгåғғ™: I think you mean, OMG JFG. cause I do.

That is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This makes me want to have sons so that they can get things like that for Christmas.
Wait, I'm poor.

I gotta say:

1) damn it all, if that doesn't make paintballing sound worthy of my time ( what with having a star and all)
2)needs firing demo
3)needs concrete slab armour... cue Bento.

And to think all I built in college was a Natty Light beer pyramid.

So... it's only half-scale then? Well... I guess that's... okay.

ALL HAIL THE MAIMDOZER.

'Cause it's too tiny to kill you. Shoot, I don't think it would even kill you if it ran you over.

That'd sure as hell hurt, though.

But if you lower your head, you can not see where you're going.

Someone add the Transformers soundtrack to that video!!! "Son of Killdozer"!!!!!

If Dukakis had looked half as cool in his tank in 1987, he would have received way more than 111 electoral votes!

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I need to learn how to post images!

Good job. But why do I keep thinking of 'Animal House' type possibilities here?

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Inside of those arrows above the , and . keys.

@ash78: I believe he has incorporated a driving window like the original had:

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How Jalop is your TANK!!!!

3-Cylinder: 1 point.
Diesel: 20 points.
0-doors: 50 points.
Tank Body: 10000 points?
Tank Tracks: 1000 points.
Rear: 20 points.
Paint ball Cannon: 2000 points.
Scuba Tank in a Tank: 500 points.
Neighbors calling the cops on you for your Tank: EFFING PRICELESS!

I love this guy!

@clinto: I wonder if he included the provision to be able to sit low enough in it to use the window, though…...

@clinto: Yep, hate for this to be just another low visibility not-see-mobile rolling down the street.

My first joke was too subtle.

I was going to write this off until I saw the the turret turn and FIRE!!!!
holy cow that thing is pretty frickin sweet

I'd be curious to see how it performs offroad, but the design looks quite a bit better than most of the paintball tanks I've seen. Unfortunately, most fields and games (even the big scenario games) don't allow tanks for insurance purposes.

F me. That dude is my hero.

Cool, would be great for firing at people who stop at roundabouts when there's nothing coming.

@graverobber: Gracias, now lets see if it works for the computer illiterate

"I paid $80,000 tuition to have you build a tank?!!!"

"Wait a minute! You built a TANK? My son built a TANK? HELL YEAH! ... wait'll the boys down at the Water Buffaloes Lodge hear about this!"

Blitzfarbekrieg - now if you could modify an ultralight to look like a Stuka...

Only one question: Can he use the diesel engine to compress more air for A) unlimited tank round firing, and B) compressor fittings at the back for infantry air-tank refills.

All in all, this is 42,942 kinds of pure awesome!

@BlownOring: COTD!

Once he gets mass production underway he'll be able to annex Saginaw like it's the freakin' Sudetenland. He could try to take over Detroit, but even a tank won't cut it in some of the neighborhoods there.

@stuntpuppy: No kidding, Kwame would put a cap in his a$$ if he tried to take Detroit

Are you kidding me. That's the only way he can make it from the North End down Dupont.

FLINT TOWN!

@DonSchenck: I built race cars while I was there, it's actually a pretty badass school if you can get over the total lack of the female gender.

I'm psyched that somebody mentioned Rube's on an internationally renowned blog. Anybody wanna check out the Ghettobillies?

Oh God the Ghettobillies, I think I have one of their discs still floating around.

Did Kettering have a Formula Student Team? What year did you leave there?

Fomula SAE, Formula Lightning (before it took a dump), SAE Baja, Robot Wars and of course after school tinkering.

I graduated in 2004.

I second Chuckybas. The fact that you mentioned Rube's and their shitty parking on this blog made submitting this article all the worthwhile. I actually rushed this guy (I was in another fraternity than him) my last term @Kettering (I graduated '06, a-section), and he kept asking me about our parking lot and all of our land behind our house, when I asked him what he wanted it for (expecting the typical 'I want to build up my truck/camaro/fiero/etc.'), he replied 'I want to build a tank.' I thought he was bat-shit crazy. Boy did I underestimate his resolve.

Didja know any Sigma Chi? Didja like 'em or hate 'em?

I hope it shoots Tshirts.

@Ben Wojdyla: My brother just graduated from Kettering this past December, and now works for Cessna in Wichita, KS.

@Adamskiy: Which, by the way, he wasn't originally planning on, as he's obviously a car guy....but Cessna's job offer so outweighed Hyundai's that he chose the former instead.

And then he also worked at Borg-Warner in Ithaca, NY for his co-op job.

I knew I should have gone to engineering school.

Why is it that tank-replica-building geeks always go for the Nazi tanks? How about the goddamn T-34 for a change?

Awesome, awesome, freaking awesome... though Tigers had gas engines, T-34's were diesels.

That is awesome... Proof of the things that can be accoplished when there aren't any female "distractions" around.

Also, the dork in me does have a bit of a issue with calling it a 1/2 scale replica. Thats more than a bit of a stretch... I'd agree with "has design cues from..."
I know... DORK.

Nice to see so many Kettering Boys on here! There was a motorized couch on campus for a while a few years ago.

Freakin' awesome. Had me an APC at his age, but I didn't build the goddam thing. FMC did. The Army gave it to me and told me to learn to drive it. I had to wrench on it, but hell, I could mow down pinetrees at 20 mph in the south Georgia woods driving it flat out with all my buddies riding in it. It even had a fifty-caliber machine gun mounted on the hatch. Every eighteen year old butthead's dream, and I still want an M113A1 . This guy built a real tracked (albeit smaller) armored vehicle of his own, and therefore gets to drive it whenever he wants. I'm envious. Saw him skid-steer it, and it didn't even throw a track. That means something.

Looks like this tank is build to 1:2 scale on the vertical axis and 1:3 on the horizontal. Still, should be a laugh to drive.