Show your son how to make a plasticine tank

The usual situation: school holidays, the child spent the whole day alone sculpting something. In the evening, the son proudly demonstrated to the Pope the miracle of hostile military equipment in the form of a shapeless piece of soft clay. Respectfully praising the work and taking a deep breath, Dad thought about how to make a plasticine tank.

In 1943, the "Tiger" by combat characteristics was the best armored vehicle in the world, which had a serious impact on the development of anti-tank defense equipment and the further improvement of heavy military equipment. The article suggests an instruction telling how to make a tank from a plasticine, resembling a silhouette of the "Tiger".

In order to understand where to start, you need to have:

- photos of the object taken from different points;

- drawing machine 1: 1 (scale 1:72).

Before you make a plasticine tank, you need to stock up:

- a piece of plasticine sculptural or model;

- a stationery knife or a scalpel;

- pins;

- Flat screwdriver;

- tweezers;

- ruler;

- a piece of paper;

- with a needle.

To show your son how to make a plasticine tank, you need to divide the whole work into 4 stages.

Stage 1. Body layout

It is necessary to form from the bar of plasticine the initial template of the armored car body. This rectangular blank is almost 8.7 cm long, 3.5 cm wide and 1.5 cm high. If you have high-quality plasticine, then it will be easy to give the bar the shape of the case. In the "Tiger" it is quite complicated. So, the body is ready.

2 stage. Mock-tower

Give the clay a round, flat tablet shape. Cut with a scalpel the shape of the billet of the tower, according to the drawing. Try it on, attaching it to the body. Check with the drawing. Create faces and right angles. The form must match the drawing.

To blind machine gun in the back of the tower, a model of a cannon made of three elements, but you can also make a cylindrical shape. At the trunk inside it is necessary to create a hole (you can use a thick needle). Make a muzzle brake with tweezers and needles. It is necessary to make manholes, observation devices, the ventilation hatch and stick to the place. Everything is made from tiny particles of plasticine, the needle is put on signs and letters. The tower can be postponed, it's ready.

Stage 3. Model of running gear

You need to roll out a long cylinder of the correct diameter. Cut it into the rollers and apply a pattern to them. Tweaked tweezers make drawing more voluminous. In the center of each rink a small ring is attached. A needle on it makes holes - bolts. Each side of the running gear has 6 rollers. They can be pinned on the axis of pins, whose heads bite off bokorezami.

To make the caterpillar, a paper strip with a width of 7 mm is cut off. It is necessary to coat it with plasticine and apply a pattern and a relief.

Stage 4. Manufacturing of small details. Final processing

Details of the cover of the transmission compartment of the engine, the shelves are overhead, sight devices and other trifles are made from prepared plasticine rectangles and cylinders according to the drawing and photographs. From the pin you can make a machine gun and fasten it neatly on the tower.

Such a happy combination, like a child's imagination and the skill of the pope, can not fail to give positive results. Perhaps the first completed model of the tank will not be sent to the contest, but the next one will certainly be judged on merit. The hours spent together with his son are priceless.