An oddity for Defender of the Fatherland Day: a tank

Crafts for Defender of the Fatherland Day are made to give them to someone. Drawings of boats and airplanes hang everywhere on the walls of our compatriots. It is worth choosing something more interesting. The work for the Defender of the Fatherland Day should be a little more creative.

Here it will be told how to assemble a model of a tank from improvised materials. Such a tank will be an excellent gift not only from the baby, but from an already grown-up child. Such a tank is not very difficult, but long enough. It will also be a long time to stand such an article on the Day of Defender of the Fatherland.

Materials

For the tank you will need:

1. Many identical buttons of large diameter.
2. Clamps of any color.
3. Two plastic boxes of different sizes. Small should be somewhere in 3 times smaller than large.
4. A pen without a rod or a plastic tube.
5. Cork from the bottle.
6. Glue "Moment" or glue gun with rods.
7. Artistic acrylic paint.
8. A sharp knife.

Start

The homage to the Day of the Defender of the Fatherland "Tank" begins with the assembly of wheels. Buttons on four pieces are glued to each other flat. There should be eight wide wheels assembled from four buttons. Now these wheels are glued together with ribs. There should be two rows of four wheels.

Caterpillars of the tank are made of clamps. Four clamps are placed next to each other exactly. On them is glued vertically a row of wheels. Perhaps it will take only three or five yokes, it all depends on the width of the buttons. Then the clamps are tightened around the rows of wheels, and the excess is cut off.

Next step

In the middle of a large box a smaller box is glued. This will be the tank body. While the glue dries, you need to cut a semicircular hole on the side of the cork. It should start at the end of the cork. Now in the middle of the small box, a little glue is poured, which is spread out in a circle, the size of a cork. On the glue, first put a fountain pen or a tube, and on top of it a cork. The glued end of the tube should be hidden under the stopper, and it should exit through a semicircular incision.

Ideas

The finished hull and tracks of the tank are painted with acrylic paints depending on the desire and imagination. Green and red colors are usually used. Caterpillars are usually made black. They can not be painted, if you take the clamps and buttons of the desired color.

After the paint has dried, it is necessary to glue the caterpillars to the tank body. Ready tank can be glued to the stand or left, as is.

An odd job for Defender of the Fatherland Day is ready.