Enn'llien SteamTank (EGA Siege tower) miniature for RPG

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In a Pathfinder RPG campain, i'm playing a Half-elf Gunsligner/gunsmith and inventor named Enn'll Nothridge who's life work is to create a serie of steam powered medieval mobile artillerie ( in other words, tanks) which are named after him. This one is STUPID, (TLDR after this paragraph..) Basically i thought siege towers were created in a town and moved to the battlefield, but i was wrong, seige towers are made on site and are abandoned after, they are disposable... so my idea of saving time and effort by making it mobile is pointless: -it's made on site out of wood harvested also on site, a steam powered one does not help the army transport it effortlessly, it's cheap and disposable so making it though and reusable at the cost of a huge fortune is creating a problem to solve a problem that doesn't exist and since seiges last for months before the last attack, the army have litterally no better to do then to make wooden towers, no need for a premade one... (plus it needs speciallized worker to drive and maintain and have a high operation cost...) (TLDR a siege tower tank is dumb because it has 0 strategic use or advantages over the old design) But the idea seem cool so i decided screw it! i'll make it anyway! and since it's gonna be dumb lets make it SUPER DUMB! and added a building floor to it! I guess now you can use it as a commando all-in-one-good-at-nothing transport for extremelly high level advanturers, basically a full guild hall on wheels complete with real bedrooms, a well protected metal structure with 2 front canons for good mesure, and a collapsable seige tower that can be ajusted for different hight of fortification, which also has a balista on the top level, for whenever you get hired to raid a necromancer's fortress i guess... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ANYWAY! It is from my "Engine's of the Golden Age" series, which my character should build in his epilogue after the end of the campain, when he is Headmaster of his own univercity... (or maybe not that particular model because it's stupid...) and it's name is the "Citadel of Spite". This serie of tank is made on a new base that is a lot bigger then my past models, yet they are still at the same scale. Many part where resized (bigger body, boiler, pistons etc...) or duplicated for better support (support wheels, drive wheels, suspension, roof pillars...) The white patch in the photos are pieces of paper i cut and glue to the side of the seige tower collapsable sections to help the structure. The rail stopper part goes under the rails in the floors 2 to 6 of the tower. each tower section need a good sanding inside and out for them to slide freely in one-another. BASIC PRINTING INSTRUCTION FOR EACH PART ARE IN THEIR NAME FOLLOWING THIS LOGIC: [model name (base if common to most][part name][helpful assembly info, mostly left or right][ (need support) if needed][how many are needed if more then 1] ex: Base_driverod(need_support)_print(X2) Unlike my other models, tanks in this serie have no chain on their wheels so no need to add ropes on them, the support wheels are now all allined to touch the ground for more support and it can't realistically go over to harsh a terrain anyway. You can however add a string to connect each side of the front axel to the direction pulley under the tank. To avoid overcrowding the table during play, the models aren't to scale with 30mm miniatures, they are scaled down to 1:88 (a normal 176cm person next to the model would be 2cm high, i've just saved you the trouble of calculating that if you were wondering ;p )