Saturday, May 21, 2005

Scale Modeling of OGRE and GEV units: "Kitbashing, or the creation of something
completly new from the ordinary, has been a source of modeling ever since modeling first
became a hobby. %uFFFD Many times, artists would be upset that a company didn't offer a
model of a rare vehicle, truck, car, war plane, etc. and they would simply set about to
build their own copy of what they wanted using bits and pieces from other pre-existing
models to accomplish their goals.%uFFFD OGRE and GEV are some of the easiest and the
hardest models to kitbash.%uFFFD The genre would seem simple; a future war using somewhat
contemporary vehicles.%uFFFD The concepts are familiar; treads and hovercraft, projectile
firing weapons, electronics and armor.%uFFFD We have tanks, howitzers, and a host of other
familiar vehicles.%uFFFD And then we have OGREs.%uFFFD On a 1/35th scale representation, I
would see a Mark V OGRE as being about 8 feet long, three feet wide, and three feet tall.
%uFFFD An almost impossible item to kitbash, or would it?%uFFFD I don't know, I doubt I
have room for something like that, but we'll see...%uFFFD A 1/35th scale OGRE Mark V...
%uFFFD Hmmm.%uFFFD Interesting.%uFFFD Need a trailer to carry it to a Con.%uFFFD It would
never fit in the back seat, unless I made it modular.%uFFFD Hmmm."

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