North
American Combine Ogre Mark VII “Ogre Killer”
Several years ago I heard of the mysterious Mk7 and
became very interested in what this behemoth would look like as there are no
official images of the Mk7. It was never officially produced by the Combine,
although plans were drawn up as the war ended. Steve Jackson posted tentative specifications a few years ago from GURPS Ogre and
a fan made a fantastic model shown here off of these plans. Another avid
fan produced a great counter for the beast off of the miniatures silhouette shown here. The
original load out was:
4xMB
(Main Batteries)
12xSB
(Secondary Batteries)
4xMR
(Missile Racks)
32xIM
(Internal Missiles
24xAP
(Antipersonnel)
4”
Move
96
Tread Units
As shown here in the Steve Jackson Games Forum, and originally in GURPS Ogre.
Later Steve Jackson released the Ogre Miniatures
Update found here, in it was a revised stat list for the Mk7 with the following
configuration:
4xMB
(Main Batteries)
8xSB
(Secondary Batteries)
12xM
(Missiles)
2xHWZ
24xAP
(Antipersonnel)
4”
Move
96
Tread Units
-In
addition the Mk7 has 24 reloads for the external missiles (reloaded by a ‘LT’
type drone), advanced targeting giving all weapons except for the AP +1” Range
and the ability to extend the range by an additional 2” if it sacrifices -1
penalty on attack rolls. It also gets a +1 vs. Cruise missiles.
I have dubbed this version the Mark VII-B
(unofficially, I just think its cool). Since it has such a different load out from any other Ogre I couldn’t help but wonder
what this version would look like.
With some free time on my hands I decided to start
construction on a model for the updated Mk7 configuration. I decided due to the sheer number of weapon
systems and especially due to the large number of external missiles to make my Mk7 have a three body
segment design rather than the traditional two bodies.
I’d made one other ogre, a Mk3-B before but I rushed
the job and made it in about eight hours straight when I was bored one day, here
it is next to a Mk3 and a Mk5
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Total construction time: 1 week on and off work every
night.
Materials: thin cardboard, crazy glue, model plane
bits, model car bits, nails, bolt ends, a ball bearing, sprue bits and even some
parts of an old G.I. Joe vehicle.
Building an Ogre Mk7 from scratch in 9(ish) ‘easy’ steps!:
Stage 1: First I cut geometric shapes out of a thin
piece of cardboard with scissors.
Stage 2: I glued the pieces together into a base,
and three body segments.
Stage 3: I added treads and lower extensions of the
body to the base.
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Stage 4: I added a conning tower with ball bearing
on top and the bases of all four main batteries.
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Stage 5: I added all eight secondary batteries (nails with the tip cut off) and
twelve missile casings (cardboard). Engine bits from a model car made the main batteries.
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Stage 6: I cut the ends off of twelve nails for
the missiles.
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Stage 7: I added detail to the third segment and
added both howitzers on the middle section as well as all 24 antipersonnel (6 are on the back beside the 'hatch'). I also added some texture to the area in between the sections with some plastic bits I shaved off of an old G.I. Joe vehicle.
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Stage 8: The final stage was to put squares of bug
screen over the outsides of the treads for texture.
Sage 9: I quickly threw together a missile reload
drone, to accompany the monster.
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Complete model: Let me know what you think!
Mk VII Reference Sheet (Stat Graphics courtesy of Ogre Miniatures Update):
Sprayed Black:
