How To Make A TONK 

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30 seconds in and I've already laughed at the reaction to Cat's suggestion of Deep Frame Diorama. This is going to be great

Love the amazing lore that you come up with for this setting, I find the image of these two tanks roaming around the wasteland not being able to destroy each other absolutely hilarious. All of your tanks and/or tonks give me an itch to get my bitsbox out and make one myself 👍

These would look great in a diorama, perhaps set in a deep frame?

They look great! Kinda like 40k grot tanks where you can really have a bit of fun building something! The safety feature idea is brilliant! Would love to see what else you can come up with. Have fun 🛠️

I love the way that the human's green tank came out. Excellent paint job. Also, nice shout out to Theo. Excellent vid, Bill!

MORE TONKS! also, fantasic paint jobs, I really like the respite tonk in particular

Woahh thanks for the shout out! Also TONKS looked amazing, gonna have to build myself one now... 👀💥

Bill I loved your Tonks. Please make more.

more tonks please. love your enthusiasm for building these

The tonks look like a blast to build. Great video.

I love the lore behind the tonks...forever locked in an unwinnable battle due to safety systems they can't comprehend, brilliant!

Did Cat say a deep-frame diorama?? I think that's an amazing idea. I'd love to see you try something like that.

Awesome build Bill! I love the backstory for the turrets!

Splendid build and lore!! Very impressed by the improvement in your painting skills!

I really enjoy seeing fantasy tank designs from people who may not know about tanks. It's a breath of fresh air

I love the tonks you made. Please go even sillier with the next two.

53 years old and love modifying toys, and am inspired by you and Crafsman. ❤

The lore behind those turrets is amazing

I love the Tonks!!! They turned out so adorable!

Thonks for the tonks

this was a video for Tonks! but I REALLY loved getting to see your sketchbook

Really cool builds and a fun backstory! I’d definitely be interested in seeing more tonks

The opening w/ Cat..... LOL! 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Love the tone and style of these videos!

I laughed when Bill said as long as it’s not a box of syringes 😂 I’m not sure if he realized that those little orange tubes are the covers off of a syringe, lmao ! My mom is a diabetic so I knew exactly what they were as soon as he pulled the box out !

Love the end results! And if you can't sketch tanks, then I'm arch Duke Ferdinand. Seriously though, your sketchbook is a thing of beauty, just from the little bit shown here. God bless.

I want to make one of those now. Beautiful master pieces.

I have no idea how I managed to avoid this channel for so long and I'm sorry, your style is absolutely amazing. I mean all of it: speaking, editing, drawing terrible tanks, all great (didn't make it to the main part yet but judging by thumbnail the result is also gonna be great) clap

been watching you for some years now.......silly HA with memory loss.....sigh.....you enable me to have building goals and very enjoyable.....thank you Sir.....

I really really really loved this video!! I love when you scratch-build in 28mm. Really I just love when you scratch-build anything. Excellent video!! Very inspiring, my partner and I are gonna have a tonk building date now and then we’re gonna play!!

Love the different styles for the tonks!

Thank you for helping me find my newest game to enjoy. My friends and I love it! Scratch building some tanks this week to probably start campaigns. Thanks again, and keep up the great content! 👏👏

great back story and good work. stay safe and enjoy your holiday. Don't forget to leave Cat food this time lol

Great to watch a British creator. Also hello from the Wirral 🤘

"As long as it's not a box of syringes I'm ok"😂😂😂

Enjoyable video as always, Bill, love the TONKS! Went to subscribe to @slimehousetv , but I was already subscribed. Anyone else bob their head or do a little dance in their chair when the "Scratch building" squeaky scene appears? That's the highlight to my week. Also, glad to see you are making enough coin to hire a hand model to do the build scenes...(Wait... those lovely flesh mittens actually belong to YOU?) *swoon* #ohmy #areyouenjoyingittellyourface

I would love a "Bill playing stuff" episode once In a while

Love this episode, please build more tonks!!

For rotating turrets, I'd probably go with magnets! Easy to affix, won't break, and I can switch turrets between tonks! I'd probably glue a slip of construction paper over each magnet to give a little friction and reduce accidental rotation. I wanna make TONKS now!

Amazing idea for the lore. So funny but also a great example of two doomed factions fighting for who knows why.

*So much Crafsman influence. I love it*

The turret safety thing is so funny

Its like this video gave me a shot of my old creative blood back into my system I loved the lore part 😊

Love your Tonks! Enjoy the Walls of Corn, it's my favourite part of the UK ❤

I'd love to just buy a print artbook of your sketchbook.. It's always so amazing ❤

14:08 *He's beginning to believe*

I really want to make some Tonks now! I don’t have random bits or painting skills though...

I had asked DD for a match of Xenos Rampant. Rusters vs the Body Horror Boys but I will totally take a battle report of TONKS!

Working on mine right now! It’s turning out way better then i expected!

Great Tonks, hope you make more in a future video.

Have a look at some real tanks of the inter-war period - some of those were batshit crazy, but cool as well. The Russian T-28 and T35, for example - mobile fortresses, or land warships. The French Char B, another land battleship. Also, the little Renault FT-17. The British 'TOG' I and II prototypes; Huge, ungainly, outdated, but ridiculously cool. There really was an AFV (Armoured Fighting Vehicle), that looked like it could have been made from scrap, by Rusters - the 'Bob Semple Tank' from New Zealand. So shonky, it's actually rather cool.

My mind is melting over the discovery of Dan Does...

Hello mate, I was impressed by your work, mostly because scratchbuilding is hard. You showed the comps and I was like "He already knows what everything will look like when finished to use that lot" and I was right. So I have nothing to pass onto you, apart from this, I have had cause to make a plastic thing spin within another plastic thing, like on your turret. I saw that you split and melted back and at the end seemed a bit unhappy while being happy with that aspect of the build. It's the melting part that takes time to get right, sometimes if you can have a shield behind the melted lip, not only does that stop any melted plastic catching on the other part, but it also leaves a gap. I actually do this a lot with turrets, like on battleship builds, so they can't fall out if it's a pond or bath build (make the plugs underneath from milliput). having a very slight gap helps with free circulation of the turret or wheel. Sometimes I've just put a blade down the gap to get rid of any excess lip, but a shield does away with all that faff, if you can fashion one to use.

MORE TONKS! Please and thank you :)

Bill I can't tonks u enough for all the things-theme song: the Hank Williams Honky Tonk:)

Very cool tanks, would love to see 2 more.

I really love these videos. I just wish that this hobby was more accessible for someone like me. It seems like you need time, space, and money to get into stuff like this, which is frustrating. I guess the best thing to do would be to start with tiny projects, like a few miniature trees or a single house, and work out from there?

Bill, thanks for this. Can you do a little run down of your sketching kit - pens, brushes etc. please?

This could not have come at a better time for me*. Thanks! I will now watch the video. - *Due to my son insisting that i build space goblin tanks for him to play with. He's 5. LOL at kids being 'not very interesting friends'.- Now wa

I love the lore there, it's super fun and clever, but also hilarious!

Watching this a year later - Morrisons in UK have teeny jenga for a quid. Will make loads of tonk bases with a couple of sets.

Does Cat have a house in Respite? You know, where he could be their unofficial king? Or mascot? Or vagrant?

The lore is excellent and deeply thoughtful as always! Balanced wow well with goofy ass dickery that both sides choose to leverage on eachother

Ik love those tonks looks Fun so if you want do some more pllssss 😊

I think a tumor version of one of these tonks would be quite interesting, along with a beadbot one - so you can have all the final factions. I mean just factions.

Amazing videoo, the editing is beautiful. Instantly subscribed jeje. Also, the tonks ended up looking fantastic!!

"sketchbooks dont have to be perfect, its not a finished piece" - the guy who's sketchbook looks like you opened a graphic novel

fun fact I forget which side of WW2 did this but there was a very crappy tank made that would carry its fuel on the outside. This meant if one of the canisters were shot it would burn the crewmen inside to death. Also cool tanks!

Tonks are fun. that story about why they can't hit each other is funny xD

Oh... Dan Does is your literal twin. WHO KNEW.

🗣️ MOAR TONKS PLEAZE

Most hilarious video about crafting things I've watched.

That's certainly not a box full of syringes. It's a box full of syringe caps.

Both tonks turned out amazingly, loved the lore about them too. I think it would be great if you could film a game with them at some point, maybe once you're familiar with the rules or have built a few more tonks.

Thanks Bill 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Great make, and great video quality

The sketches remind me a lot of the tank designs from battalion wars 2

My voice went exactly like that when I had a passionate infection… Deffo mr potato head eyes. Funny, funniest was when you, dead pan, said you weren’t insane. Fantonkintastic Bill!

Terrible?!?! 3:54 nah bro you are amazing at drawing them and love the vid I’m definitely going to make these❤

If I ever meet you in the street I would definitively treat you to a Freddo and packet of pickled onion space raiders!

It’s my favourite sporadic creator ! Happy to see a ya in my in box

I like tanks. Tonks are cool too. 10/10 good video

Would love this again dig cartoon idea im planning to clear out my war hammer may do this

I would like to see you build a big heavy junk bomber plane

Ancient IFF meaning they can never hit each other, that's great.

Reminds me of Boneparte from Dominion Tank Police. Fantastic anime if you are not already familiar

Fun Fact: if you stick a heavy weapon like an aircraft gun on a vehicle not originally meant to carry a weapon, the result is called a "Technical" (don't ask me why, I have no idea). The vehicle used as a base is typically a flatbed truck or lorry, rather than a scratch-built bulldozer with armour plates, but I guess you use what you've got. This comment is _not_ meant as a complaint, or an attempt to "correct" you. I just think it's fun that your backstory for the tonks in this episode has some basis in reality.

Bill Making Stuff vs Mr Does? Lesss gooo

Hay bill hope you see this comment 😊 If you do just know that I love your videos they very inspiring and are always fun to watch and if you ever get bored I thought I'd share a few videos ideas Perhaps make a miniature giant skeleton monster with or without a weapon or a walking tank As crazy as that sounds it would look really cool in my opinion Ok byeee😊

I would really enjoy too see builds inspired by a game called generation zero, I think the shapes of them fit you’re style and keep up the good videos 👍

RU-vid gave me a 50 minute add for Dark Winds at the 2:40 mark of your video.

Now Bill, it's your world, but the Respite-centric view of yours has to change. The "Rusters" as you call them, certainly don't call themselves that. It is a pejorative term used by the invader to describe a culture older than their presence in this planet. It's about time we see more from the native inhabitant's perspective. I'd love to see their bio-machine gods, their culture, their villages. Are they the original aliens in this planet, or were they the culture that filled the planet with trash and once invaders themselves?

do one with a single giant track in the middle with sponsons on the sides

2:58 Where on earth did you get that adorable wee square!? I need one

Ever since i moved into a snall apartment i have grown to like 15mm scale gaming quite alot lol so much less space requirement

7:45 I am enjoying it can't you see by my face

Cool stuff! Make the litch

Kind of want to see you turn a cheap thomas the tank engine toy into Thomas the Tonk 😆

Fun builds!