Kickstarter Update

[al_kenobi]

Originally Posted by jfleisher

Maybe we can get decals for markings as part of a Kickstarter...

Decals for ogres would be nice, but on a miniature GEV, they would be unreadable.

[dwalend]

Originally Posted by al_kenobi

Decals for ogres would be nice, but on a miniature GEV, they would be unreadable.

Could a decal fit

M4/3 A2 R2 D2 ?

[wolf90]

Originally Posted by jfleisher

Maybe we can get decals for markings as part of a Kickstarter...

That's on my (personal) "to do" list.

We shall see…

D.

[Mack_JB]

Originally Posted by dwalend

Could a decal fit

M4/3 A2 R2 D2 ?

Isn't that mixing fandoms? :>)

[wolf90]

Ok…THAT'S funny.

Well played!

[dwalend]

Originally Posted by Mack_JB

Isn't that mixing fandoms? :>)

Wondered if I could slip that past...

[al_kenobi]

Originally Posted by wolf90

Ok…THAT'S funny.

Well played!

There are times I wish we had thumbs up/thumbs down buttons on the forums. This is one of them.

[Mack_JB]

Well, we have always believed vehicles have a rudimentary onboard AI for times when the crew is disabled ... what better way than to mount an R2 unit in each one?

[Tim Kauffman]

Originally Posted by philreed

The planned plastic minis are the same size as the existing metal minis.

I submit this illustration as a "For what it's worth/Not that anyone agrees/Maybe it may help/Ect" exercise in OGRE design.
I noticed the original designs, as awesome as they all are had a similar build to them where there is a overhanging of the chassis flat panel over the Tread Unit housings, usually, but not always of the front ones.
To my eye, which I humbly admit is not everyone's eye, that looked odd to me both from a asthetic perspective and actual functional design perspective.
It just looks like the tread unit housings should all be flush with the front and rear flat chassis panels.

A great example is if you consider the German WW2 Mouse...the way the treads and chassis design is with no overhangs. You would want to minimize those to avoid having any projectile traps that funnel a shot into a armor cavity where more damage would result, and it just looks better.
Also, you want as much Tread Units as possible underneath to minimize ground pressure, so why not keep the OGRE designs as is, but also increase the Tread Units underneath the overhang areas?
...and the front OGRE chassis are all larger mass than the rear chassis, yet the Tread Units are the same size/mass. That doesn't seem right functionally or look right Imho.

So, to illustrate, I made a composite showing original Mark3, Mark3B and Mark 4 with the FanMade tweek suggestion next to each one. This concept would apply to all the OGREs because they all have some sort of overhang but it's enough of an example for the others not done...you get the jist, so to say.
I also did some personal tweeks to the designs, which for the purposes of this post can be ignored.

I just thought I'd put this out here as something to consider before those cool new plastic OGREs go to the automated OGRE Factories for manufacture.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/128248...posted-public/

[schoon]

Originally Posted by jfleisher

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects.../posts/1598681

Congratulations Drew!

Sweet miniature goodness!