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Churchill AVRE 1.7 by Uncle T

1,074 bricks.

My take on the British Churchill AVRE infantry tank (the AVRE should be a Mk III or IV but they look similar enough).

Info from Wikipedia, somewhat edited.

The Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) Churchill was a British infantry tank used in the Second World War. It was best known for its heavy armour (152 mm hull and turret front!), large longitudinal chassis with all-around tracks with multiple bogies, its ability to climb steep slopes, and its use as the basis of many specialist vehicles. It was one of the heaviest Allied tanks of the war.

The Churchill was used by British and other Commonwealth forces during the North African, Italian and North-West Europe campaigns. In addition, 344 Churchills were sent as military aid to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and more than 250 saw active service on the Eastern Front.

The Churchill was a versatile project and was used in numerous specialist roles, like this AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) version is armed with the Petard 29mm Spigot Mortar with one coaxial 7.92 mm machine gun and one bow mounted 7.92 mm machine gun. The Petard 29mm Spigot Mortar fired a No. 1 Demolition Bomb with 40 lb of explosives up to 250 metres and it was designed to blow through roadblocks, bunkers, pillboxes and other concrete, brick or earthen obstacles and defences. It had to be manually reloaded, and in game you need to respawn to reload.

The Petard is about twice the actual size due to game limitations like the smallest fuel tank being 1x1x1. But it works.

The tank had a crew of 5: commander, gunner, loader/radio operator, driver, co-driver/hull gunner, but this is a single player version so everything except the bow machinegun is controlled from the driver's seat (front right hand side, it's British after all ;) ).
Sadly since Bob is such a thicc boi it's very hard to fit three of him in the turret and for them to be able to see or do anything properly.

Controls.
Driver's seat.
WASD: Drive and steer. *
L/Headlights: Headlights.
B/Beacon Switch between AP and HE ammunition for the main gun (indicator by the driver's seat).
Alt + Mouse/Key arrows: Turret rotation and gun elevation. **
Fire action 1/Num 1: Petard 29mm Spigot Mortar. Elevate the gun at least a few degress before firing or you may blow up yourself. ***
Fire action 2/Num 2: Fire coaxial machine gun.

Co-driver's seat.
Fire action 1/Num 1: Bow mounted machine gun. ****

All hatches opened with button on or next to them.

Camera 1-2: Driver's periscopes.
Camera 3: Co-driver's periscope.
Camera 4: Main gun sight.
Camera 5: Commander's periscope.
Camera 6: Gunner's periscope.

A few notes.
* Tank steering works a lot better with tracks.
** I made it so you can't drive and control the turret at the same time since in this period shooting while moving was a desperate emergency measure at best due to the lack of stabilised guns; tanks stopped, aimed, shot, then moved again. You can however still coast along quite nicely on flat ground while aiming the turret if you go top speed. :)
*** No small RC unit means I can't give the projectile enoguh speed with a short burst and then turn off the thruster, so I rely on a downward thruster to simulate the short range of the original No. 1 Demolition Bomb.
**** Sadly the huge guns we have in the game makes it necessary to make this one stationary. I tried having it clip throug the hull but it often went wild and crazy, and opening up a big enough hole in the hull for it to be able to move even a little means exposing the co-driver to rain of both the water kind and the bullet kind, so it'll have to be fixed until we get smaller guns.
- The real Churchill had 11 double bogies, but since there are no axles and wheels small enough for that setup I've had to reduce them to 9 single bogies.
- The interior is low detail and what detail there is is located at the driver's seat, both to save bricks but also since there's three Bobs and a huge gun in the turret there's no room for anything else really. Also I'm not that interested in making perfect interiors at the cost of 1,000 extra bricks and 20 more hours of work that most people don't really care about anyway TBH. :)
- The real top speed of this behemoth was only 24 kph/15 mph, but I've added some engine power and thus about 15 kph to that to make it a bit easier to turn at lower speeds.

Feel free to edit, but if you reupload publically in any way please acknowledge the original creation and crator.

Have fun!