How do I get started on building a paintball tank? Are there any guides to what I'm trying to do?
I'm thinking of something like strapping an engine to a shopping cart or something
>>968652
I'd base it off a go-kart or a custom built frame.
Depending on how heavy it is i think any standard 50cc scooter engine will do.
For the hull make a rectangular frame and put sheet metal around it.
Pretty much to the same for the turret, just leave a hole to put the marker in.
Similar to this, only smaller.
>>968648
If you live up north. You can find snow mobiles for cheap. And make sorta a half track. Replace the sleds with wheels. And just cover the thing in like 3/32" thick steel plate.
>>968652
>engine to a shopping cart
cheating as fuck. pedal power or gtfo
two people two bikes, one per side as typical tread steering goes.
It's fucking paintball, just use plywood.
>>968674
correction; make sure to get "tactical plywood"
it makes a big different
>>968648
Go to www dot mortarinvestments dot com and buy a T-34, then mount Tippman 98's in every machinegun position (the main gun barrel is filled with concrete, so you couldn't work that.
OR you can do what my buddies and I did. VW Beetle, remove the body. Built a tube frame around it and fabricated wooden body panels to mimic the design of a Ferret Armored car. We were able to do this for about $1800 back in 2003, probably run you about $3k now.
>>968710
>mortarinvestments
.eu not .com
>>968674
Sounds like it'd be more difficult to make a turret out of plywood than sheet metal.
>>968710
>the main gun barrel is filled with concrete, so you couldn't work that.
Me and a few friends were thinking about this.. if you could be friends with a place that turned industrial sized ships propeller shafts. you could easily [not cheaply tho] have them turn you a tank barrel.. assuming the breech isn't fucked either. and you could find some way of removing the original barrel. [I don't know if they are screwed on, or just press fit.]
also I thought the barrels where filled with a termite/cardboard tube thing, and lit? Concrete doesn't seem like a sure-fire way of making sure the barrel never gets used again, cause I can name a few ways that you could get the concrete out without damaging the old rifling in the barrel..
>>968936
Let's hear 3.
