{"id":608,"date":"2018-04-23T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teletraanone.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2018-04-23T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T20:22:28","slug":"g-i-joe-mega-bloks-awe-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teletraanone.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/23\/g-i-joe-mega-bloks-awe-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"G.I. Joe \u2013 Mega Bloks: AWE Striker"},"content":{"rendered":"

More MB Joe vehicles<\/a>!\u00a0 Don’t ask me why, but the AWE Striker was always a favorite vehicle of mine.\u00a0 It didn’t have much use in a battlefield setting, but for small recon teams and harsh terrain, it made a tad more sense.\u00a0 My grandfather had a street-legal dune buggy when I was a kid, and I loved riding around in that thing, so maybe that’s where my affection for it comes from.\u00a0 The driver that came with the original toy, Crankcase, was a zero.\u00a0 He never had any kind of role in the cartoon, and given that the vehicle only held two people (four if you hung two off the sides), he seemed like a waste of a valuable slot when you were loading that bad boy up for a mission.\u00a0 So I haven’t customized a Crankcase figure, but my Joe team hasn’t complained.<\/p>\n

For a vehicle that isn’t all that large, this design took far more time to create than I thought it should have.\u00a0 Picking out the right tires and\u00a0 deciding the correct scale of everything was more time intensive than I would have preferred.\u00a0 But by far the worst was the roll cage.\u00a0 There just aren’t many parts from Mega (or Lego) that allow for a good looking tube-frame roll cage that goes off at all sorts of unusual angles.\u00a0 I had to get creative, modify some pieces, and break most rules of brick building to get that thing right.\u00a0 But in the end, I think it turned out pretty good.\u00a0 I thought about painting the black parts green, but ultimately, I decided to let it look sort of cobbled together.\u00a0 It is a dune buggy after all!<\/p>\n

In the end, I was very pleased with the final results, and I’m glad I made a second one while I was at it.\u00a0 It slowed down the build doing everything in duplicate, but it kept me from have to disassemble the first one or re-engineering the second.\u00a0 Sometimes it pays to be slow.<\/p>\n

\u2018Til all are one, collecting is half the battle.\u00a0 (The other half is making things that should exist but don\u2019t.)<\/p>\n

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More MB Joe vehicles!\u00a0 Don’t ask me why, but the AWE Striker was always a favorite vehicle of mine.\u00a0 It didn’t have much use in a battlefield setting, but for small recon teams and harsh terrain, it made a tad more sense.\u00a0 My grandfather had a street-legal dune buggy when I was a kid, and… <\/p>\n

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