Catch that Tank!

It seems today is a day for catching up on many things... including my blog. I really do regret neglecting it.

Anyway, I want to back track to the very reason I started this blog. It's true I started this blog because it seems I'm always working on very random projects though, to be honest, I haven't been very good at documenting it here. So at the very least, I'm trying to write about the more interesting things I do, even though it's not exactly timely...

So the very first project that I meant to post on this blog was my cardboard talk. The idea of making a talk came about when we were talking about stage designs for SFC's 2011 PreConference ("I Stand"). It was an army theme, so we were like "why don't we have a tank?" and somehow the task was dropped on me. I went through various ideas... but I ended up settling on a scale model of a real tank to put at the entrance.

The blue prints downloaded from the internet and scribbled with scale measurements:

Here's some photos of the cardboard tank in-progress:

And the [mostly] finished product: (I was so excited to finish the body of the tank and put it together that I actually forgot that it needed treads :p)

This definitely was a fun project, though somewhat incomplete. I still have the tank a year later. Don't know what I'm going to do with it but I know I don't have the heart to throw it away.