This whole project was built out of some table talk, a great idea and some scribbles on a piece of paper, which was lost before the tank was even finished! My goal was to make it drivable with the operator completely hidden, allow the turret to spin, and have reloadable 'shells' for the cannon.Ī good reminder is that you can build great things even if you aren't proficient with programs such as CAD. The coraplast is short for corrugated plastic pretty much plastic cardboard and is similar to foam board.

The unistrut and conduit were left over from previous projects and helped to keep the cost down for this one. It's often used for suspending things like pipe and electrical in buildings. Unistrut is metal that is basically square tubing, but with a notch in one side. The scooter was the kind that turns on a dime (just like a tank!) and is operated with a joystick. I had an old mobility scooter I could use, was given some metal unistrut (strut) and electrical conduit, and told we could get some coraplast to make the skin of the tank. The only parameters I was given was it had to fit through a double set of doors and it had to be able to shoot t-shirts and beef sticks.

To find out more about Mission 22, click here.Recently, I was asked to build a tank for a men's event I was helping with at my church. Strong Athletic was honored to make this shirt and is very proud to partner with Battle Buddies to help raise funds for Mission 22. There are many USA Veterans, Active Duty and Reserves who play roller derby. Mission 22 wants to bring that number to zero.'īattle Buddies is a Roller Derby organization that was created to provide support, information, and a continued sense of military community to our Roller Derby veterans and those currently serving in the military. Every day, more than twenty veterans are lost to suicide.

It was decided that 22% of profits from the shirt should be donated to Mission 22.įrom Mission 22, 'Mission 22 is a non-profit who combats the ever-rising veteran suicide rate. Lisa Benson, aka Debella Deball, a veteran of the US Military and a retired member of the Texas Rollergirls, asked Strong Athletic to create the Strong Athletic Veteran shirt for roller derby athletes who are part of the Battle Buddies group. This design comes in three different styles of shirt: A Crew Neck T-shirt, a Fitted Tank Top and a Racerback Tank.

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