Whippet Tank

“Whippet Tank"  - I use to prowl many different junkyards looking for material or objects that suited my fancy for future sculpture.  I have lately been not allowed to enter due to the bloodsucking lawyers threats of prosecution .  Luckily I have hoarded tons of "objects", most people call junk, in an amount that will last till I'm dead.  On one of these hunts, I spied a lovely submersion liquid tank that had been used at a high rate of temperature for many years and left a distinctive patina that I admire.  I bought it for a few dollars and threw it on my own personal pile, behind my shop.  Many years passed and one day it's time was up and it was next...I have no clue how I determined this.  The shape always reminded me of an early WWI British army tank.  Sometimes I fight my first thoughts of inspiration and try to manipulate the object into something else, sometimes this works in this case it didn't.  It was a whippet and that was it, so I commenced to put treads under it.  This was not an easy task , luckily I had a good amount of Stainless steel conveyor belt chain.  I figured out how to add some pieces all 280 of them and then bolt them together - all 560 bolts.  This took a while and made my fingers bleed.  My kind of sculpture is not for sissies, it's not easy.  In the end, it takes two strong men to pick it up and move it, not part of the plan.  Other people see it as a modern purpose-built robot mainly because they have never seen a 1914 British Whippet tank.
 
NFS - Personal Collection of Rick Booth