How do I get started on building a paintball tank? Are there

I'm thinking of something like strapping an engine to a shopping cart or something

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>>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.

>>968660

It's fucking paintball, just use plywood.

>>968674
correction; make sure to get "tactical plywood"

it makes a big different

>>968648

If it's for paintball, build a steel frame for the drive train, then build the rest with plywood and MDF

>>968664 has a good idea

Or try finding a large drill press machine motor or two. Laundry machine motor, wheelchair motor.

>>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.