I have watched "The Tank" iterations since March 2018. Wow what an achievement. You are truly amazing. Thank you for all your videos.

People concerned about 3D-printing guns and Ivan is over here 3D-printing TANKS.

I have watched all your videos since the early days when you had just started... My god the commitment and passion that has gone into building this truly commendable. How many builds you had to redo... How much time and effort since years... Kudos and hats off

OK... That "like a glove" moment when you loaded it in the van. 👀🎇💪 More perimeters. 😁

need to add a camera on the "cannon" with targeting display to see what you are shooting at :)

The day we’ve all been waiting for. Looks amazing. Well done.

This channel is so underrated. Why you don't have over 1M subscribers is beyond me. Great content and fun builds.

2:54 Picard: There are 4 lights!

The fact that it works at all is epic! Now you need to cluster motors to get more torque and you need more ground clearance too!

Fantastic, Ivan! Really amazing work! 😃 For something 3d printed it took a lot of abuse there! Like a champ! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

I have enjoyed this build so much, can't wait to see the upgrades and how well it will do..

one of the best things I've seen printed so far awesome job dude, been watching since the start of this channel, in the last fours years of printing. the community has gotten so big with so much help out there and the designs are out of this world I'm glad i got into the game because 3d printing is just endless amounts of fun and learning too

Thank you for being a daring, hard working, and positive person. It's a beautiful thing to see.

I love Ivans approach to making. Rather than try and make a finished working product, he makes something knowing that it will likely fail at first. I think this is a crucial thing for makers to understand. When you make something you should expect it to fail. You even want it to fail. It is only through failure that we learn.

""It's not finished anymore" - I'm gonna steal that! Beside that it went all good, you had fun, you tested all things, you had new ideas! You had fun!

What a crazy projects! I am impressed how well the tracks held up!

It's really cool that even when it's "finished" you're still going to iterate on it and improve it! That is one of the fun parts of invention, after all.

Question: Did you consider using a TPU layer for treads at all, or even a stiffer polymer for the whole thread? If so, what made you decide against it?

Cool project now it's finish. next step: make cockpit with screen which display the view of camera on top of canon! 😁

S P A C E R S ! Well built, expertly engineered and cool project!

It is just great ! What you can do with a 3D printer is mind boggling, Miranda puts the BIG into the Big 3D Prints World.

Really looks like a FV4005 with the turret on. Love it.

The guy in the bicycle getting shot it's hilarious lololol

You should add a targeting camera with a small display or at least a green laser to mark your target:) Very cool build!

Need a crossover with The Chieftain! Oh bugger, the tank is on fire.

I am just waiting for the end result of him taking 6 of these to a park. 3 red, 3 blue. Some kids are going to have a massive blast.

... that gave a new meaning to running "out of track" ...:D

One of the very first videos of yours that I watched was you making a 3D printed hovercraft. I've enjoyed watching you and all of your videos, they are truly an inspiration of the fact that anyone can do anything if you put your mind to it. I'd love to see you put where you started to where your at now and create an amphibious assault vehicle ... that would be amazing. Even if you don't, you have still done an amazing job at building this tank. Definitely something to be proud of.

Suggestion: Upgrade the bottom of the treads to use replaceable TPU pads.

DANGGGGG That is one hell of a torture test! Nice work Ivan!

Have you considered using Carbon Fiber PLA for non-flexible high load parts like the treads? I've been using Sunlu's CF-PLA for ages, more for print quality than strength gains, but it's some strong stuff and it prints like a dream!

You should replace the tread links with TPU instead of PLA, TPU is pretty much unbreakable and super easy to print with

Excelente trabajo, el broche de oro para tanto esfuerzo!

Ivan, this is still a great project. I have forgotten, what is your material PLA or PETG? I build autonomous mobile robots (tracked) we are currently testing tracks made from Onyx with 8 layers of carbon fiber embedded. Keep up the great work.

I can see this being popular with tank paint battle games! 😆

So much fun watching the video! 😀

Police stops a white van: hello sir, what are you transporting today? Ivan: a tank.

Wow a lot of respect! I am building a mini tank as well and having stuff break and is steel! Seriously good design work to get those plastic parts working as well as they did

Excellent

Despite it's a early prototype 3d printed tank is not good at terrain, but it proves 3d printed tanks are effective and more fun, i hope they could make a advance tank design for off road and powerful psi gun in the future.

Awesome tank! And we get to see everything sped up, so it is obvious you have put a great deal of time and work into it, and it shows! Now the materials seem to be the limiting factor, not the amazing design!

Man respect, man, for testing it to destruction and showing it!

Tas "to loko" Ivan 🤣🤣👏👏👏crack!!!

This would be great for paintball. Put a acrylic screen all around with lots of layers of removable plastic film all around so easy to clean and people can only hit you when they get ontop of you. Would be a lot of fun.

maybe for the next edition, adding an augmented Reality targeting HUD? Basically just a camera at the end of the turret's barrel, and eyepiece with a crosshair

It did better than I actually expected it to Ivan, very nice build! Maybe mount a cheap video camera on top of the gun barrel feeding a small monitor just in front of the joystick, that way you can see exactly where the balls will go when you pull the fun switch.

The left hand needs a rest that has a monitor for a coaxial gun camera, readouts for battery voltage, ammo count, etc., and the light switches. Too much stuff under the gun control hand can get confusing and dangerous. The barrel re-center switch should be either under the right thumb, or on a tophat switch on the right grip. A mechanical brake that engages the inner teeth of the sprocket would work for a parking brake.

Well, stealth vehicle this is not, but truly amazing that an ambitious (and slightly crazy) person can design and print out complex creations like this!

Wow you got it to DRIVE! I am actually a bit speechless and don't even know WHAT to think. But kudos for PERSISTENCE !

I think either you’re gonna have to use a stronger filament or you’re just gonna have to get tracks that you can sit on your tank. But other than that, everything seems to be working fine that’s really the main thing that kept breaking while you were testing. Very good work I haven’t seen anyone work with filament quite the way you have.

Very cool. When you reprint the tracks maybe you could print a TPU Tread and bond that to the tracks to give a bit more grip and perhaps help protect the links from as much damage. For the suspension are you making the front suspension stiffer than the rear as the mass seems focused in the rear and the nose seems to dip when you drive forwards... even before the suspensions broke. For your cannon could you add a car reversing camera to the tip and put a little screen by the joystick to make aiming easier? The reversing lines would be kind of like a rangefinder.

All I can think of is two teams of tanks facing off against each other. Imagine the fun!

That's dope. Fun project :)

This is great Ivan!

Suggestion: make it better by increasing how good it is.

That is pretty cool. People must grin from ear to ear when they see you in the park.

Just outstanding! Are you prepared to sell the designs to the Ukraine military? They can make it a national project with citizens across the country printing parts on their Enders. They can use all the help possible and need a battle tank that's inexpensive to build, easily maintained, a canon indescribably destructive, an open cockpit easily to extract yourself before being in incinerated,and with minimal environmental damage to fit the EU green initiative! You got it man!

“How long do you want your print to be?” “Yes”

never ending story, I love it

GREAT !!! improving improving improving... im cant wait...

This guy lives rent free in my head. I will build something this cool!

you made a fantastic tank, it's beautiful. i don't know if it's useful but i have a suggestion, if you lower the acceleration, especially from stationary, you may reduce the force on the tracks and the plastic would survive longer.

Awesome Ivan :) I think the ball hopper for the gun makes the tank look a little too tall, though I guess that's unavoidable.

Sir I'm sure you hear this all the time but perhaps this is the straw to break the camels back but have you considered adding something vital? cause as a theorist of physics i would imply that plastic is not a good surface to urrrm climb leaves for fully optimal surface placement and the ability to obtain grip would allow said tank to navigate in an optimal posture when compared other tracked vehicles but the addition of little rubber strips but thick enough to gain traction you can glue them on with some industrial cold weld adhesive

*patiently awaiting 3D printed crane*

While it needs a little improvements, it's a great prototype. Make it of sturdier materials and I will buy it to defend myself against the zombies!

How does this not have a million views already?

Nice, waiting to see this. The police call that light up on top a "take down" for obvious reasons!

crazy and good projext,amaizing as ever

Genius at work

Would it be possible to 3d print some sort of Shock absorber? that would be great, and maybe adding some rubber bands on the caterpillar would make it more stable to drive. This tank is amazing!!

Ya man don't give, this is AWSOME. And I love the soud it males

“You wouldn’t download a car, would you?” Yeah no. I’m downloading a TANK.

what would be next level is if you casted metal tracks from printed molds

You are an absolute LEGEND for your madness! one question: what do you print your parts in?

How do you not have more views and subscribers. You literally made a all terrain combat vehicle out of plastic.

Dude, with this there is a slightly chance to win the Takeshi's Castel Show.

I think those tracks will need to be solid infill, preferably nylon.

You should add a sighting camera to the turret, then you can also record video with it. Love these videos!

Really cool build I like. The final should include 100% infill for areas that need it to be. The other areas could be lower infill like the side frame or center area for weight reduction.

how much does it weigh?? how much battery do you use? could you add a solar panel? how much did all that filament cost?? add rubber gromets or something to the bottom of your treads? fantastic build and respect the amount of time that went into all that!

man that is impressive

This is incredible

You need instead of low-speed option do a gear reduction for high-speed, so that the tank would have a high-torque option instead.

Very impressive motors and battery pack. Kudos to your interesting project. 😎

10:15 the tread left the chat 💀💀 it’s like getting shot from another tank

You are a gift to humanity. Thank you. ^_^

So cool to see it finally done! :D Really hope some day I'm able to print some of my models that big!

What a life's work Ivan ! Simply amazing !

Something tells me, at some point, you're going to CNC a set of treads from metal. ;)

Take a look at how real tanks have set up the track path and how each of the tanks wheels work, I'll bet it'll be educational in regards to your 3D printed mini tank. Great work so keep it up, I love this channel. But when you come down to off road, I suspect metal is the only thing able to handle the material stress that causes.

add some thin steel/ alu tread plate at the front/ spaced armor

I think you need bigger wheels to get higher off the ground and stronger chains with better grip and so that you can putt more tension on so the keep straight below the wheels and not give way to everything.

oh shit! now for something completely different

I was gonna say maybe you should add ridges or spikes on the track for better traction for gravel and dirt but then again since its 3D printed they would most likely break and you would end up with smooth tracks again. But regardless this is amazing to see it used in the forest and how it come a long all these years.

question: would this big hunk o' plastic be suitable for taking gun fire and or frontlines of war?

I imagine that the tank would be better if some parts were used to make molds. then you could, for example, have the treads be made of something much more suited to the task. I don't actually know what I'm talking about though so I have know idea what parts would be good to replace with what materials, assuming this is a good idea.

You could put a 3d printer in the back, so you can print parts that break in the field, also a way to convert the broken piece back into filament. Don't know the details, there's a lot to work through but a self reliant tank would be unreal. At the very least a small store of filament and printer.

This is why field testing exists. You're 90% there, just need more ground clearance, more robust suspension, and stronger motor. More torque in general but i feel a more powerful motor would do it without much other modifications to teh drivetrain.

When you have ironed out all the kinks you should release a 1/10th version for us to build