?What? Yes a tank, this has been sitting in the back of my mind for quiet some time and since the love of BF2 has come around I have the inspiration to mod a tank to fit a system in it for a local LAN party here in town, 36HourLANMadness.

Some of you know me as the local News poster, but for allot of the newcomers they have to look into my past threads to see the mods I have done or even go to my Biz venture with other forum member Twizted, and recently WordBiker, in creating DragonModz. Well once again I can say this and mean it, We do what we love and we love what we do!

The Tank in this project was picked up from a friend of mine at work and the day I had it in my hands I knew I wanted to do this project with it. I forget the make and modle but I will find out again...Here she is before she gets the cut job!

sweet, i always wanted to make something like that.

since it was radio controled, if it will still move after loading it up with the computer parts, it would be awsome to drive it in through the lanparty doors, and up on to your table,


what about a bb gun in the turret, SHOOT THE CAMPERS!!

Yes it will be driven into the LAN......and it does fire a little plastic dart..hehe

Lokie
That will be one incredible project to see in progress. I am anxious to see what you and Twizted have in mind.

Wow that thing is BIG!

Questions:
-Does it fit a regular a ATX motherboard(meaning it could actually be a gaming pc unlike a via miniATX board)
-Do you plan on using it for show, as a server or for your gaming rig?(im guessing server by the name of the thread)
-What ARE you planing to put in as far as parts go?

Suggestions:
Get the tank airbrushed. Rust, bulletholes....showdows...blood even.

Man I want that.

OK the low down is this,
Gigabyt amd64 board w/ on board video(tis will be a server so no GPU needed)
It is matx, we have an odd ball PSU that wil fit in the rear wheel well.
Twizted will extend wires where necessary to fit USB , the psu, led or 2 or three hehe.

More pics to soon follow....Would you believe I have 6 mod projects going on right now?

It's an M4 Sherman. Find history of an era applicable unit, hopefully a specific tank, and go to town. don't forget to add some sandbag "armor."


EDIT: Oh, add a loudspeaker like Donald Sutherland did to his Sherman in "Kelly's Heroes". Please.

When you drive that beast in, you gotta play Flight of the Valkyries.
This thing will be the ultimate mobile server.
Best of luck with this, I will be closly watching this one, this will get interesting.

Are you going to make the thing moviable, ie, add motors and a remote control so you can wheel it around?

SWEET A** IDEA! GrandpaNoob72 is gonna' get a chubby, I tell ya' what!

Pssst, Nerdz, it already has a motor.

Just a few ideas. Extrend the VGA. USB, LAN, KEYBOARD, and MOUSE ports to the back via wire. then you could do some sort of flip up door to hide them. Maybe you could build a small switch or wireless router into it for hoook ups.

Hell yeah! This one is gonna be interesting indeed. Can't wait to see how you and Twiz hook it up.

Quote: Originally Posted by hp07 SWEET A** IDEA! GrandpaNoob72 is gonna' get a chubby, I tell ya' what! Pssst, Nerdz, it already has a motor.

Yeah and some speakers.

This thing was driving before we did this and will after.....

The first cut was to make room for the serial ata, ram, atx plug connections to the mobo...the board will be mounting upside down....fits right on the edges.

Major cooling with a stealth 120.....

Man oh man, that is going to be sweet. I agree with the Flight of the Valkyries.

lokie ive said it before and ill say it again, your mods usually turn out to be some of my all time favorites, i cant wait to see how this turns out!

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Can't wait til' the Tank makes the Lan INTRO!

Another note; the M4's main gun was underpowered compared to the german medium/heavy panzers. Tank crews would put large pipe over the scrawny barrel to make the gun look larger to enemies, since the Tiger crews quickly discovered that the M4 wasn't that much of a threat to their forward armor. Using the fake barrel let US tankers convince the opposing forces that the Allies had upgraded/retro-fitted to a larger diameter gun. (I can't remember off the top of my head if the M4 was ever retro-fitted; I think a revised model with more balls was introduced later, near the end of the European theater.)

Also, someone else should mod a German Tiger or a Soviet T series model into an adversary for this thing.

Lots of potential... Looks to be quite promising.