"So, how small can you make a tank before it looks ridiculous?" A question I spotted at Malaveldt's gallery [link] (He's got awesome stuffs~ Go check him out and buy his book!! And buy me one too LOL!)

Well, I thought this might be something cool to pull off, since I rarely think of light tanks and such (Always with the 300 tonne automatons and 4 storey tall tanks with 10 turrets and such~ Apparently size DOES speak volumes in my books~) Took me awhile to find a way to squash the human body small enough to make a really small tank with a decent amount of armour~

Sadly, I have no access to a proper scanner or photoshop, so this'll have to do for now... I will clean it up and rescan it once I have the proper equipment~ So, on to the theoretical stats of this tiny thang!

Basically, it has a 2.5 litre straight 4 turbocharged diesel engine to run it, a 152mm low-velocity gun (until I find a ruler around here, I'll stick to this~ ^_^) and weighs approximately 2.6 tonnes and is mostly constructed out of aluminium to make it paradrop worthy~ It has a top speed of 60 kph and the driver's cabin is about 1/3 that of a go-kart. Theres a little sketch of the drivers compartment as well as the mechanisme for moving the gun off so the driver can enter/ exit the vehicle.

It's a relatively light vehicle, but it's usually dropped with a crate of add-on armour and reactive plates which the driver would quickly add on to increase the little tankettes survivability (some reactive plates are already attached on the frontal glacis plate of the tankette~) I shall dub this little bugger the "Crampwell" tankette, because... well, just think of squatting in the blighter for hours on end~ You will cramp quite well, I think~ XD

All in all, I had fun doing this~ Thanks for the idea, Malaveldt! You rawk!