kitbashing

Steve Johnson's site also has details on kitbashing a model.

Sometimes, kitbashing has been used to create "art" per se.

Kitbashing, creating a model by combining different kits.

In addition to these kits, numerous manufacturers sell individual supplies for super detailing, scratch building, and kitbashing.

Kitbashing is a modelling technique where parts from multiple model kits are combined to create a novel model form.

Kitbashing is common in sci-fi modeling.

Kitbashing is another component of playscale miniaturism.

American artist Kris Kuksi also uses kitbashing to detail his maximalist sculptures.

Kitbashing or model bashing is a practice whereby a new scale model is created by taking pieces out of commercial kits.

They are very skilled in kitbashing and operating mechanical devices (mostly traps and weapons, like a walnut submachine gun).

An important aspect of kitbashing in model railroading is the reconfiguration of structure kits, most often to fit the geometry of a specific space.

As its name would suggest, Railroad Model Craftsman concentrates more on scratch building and kitbashing than its closest competitor.

Most hobbyists develop their skills by building kits, then progress to kitbashing, where various kits are combined to create a unique model before attempting to scratchbuild.

The ships' design precluded ILM's modelmakers from kitbashing other models to create the ships; the model was largely vacuformed.

High railers are less likely to engage in scratch building than their scale modeling counterparts, but many engage in kitbashing and super-detailing their buildings and structures.

Similarly, Borg starships (and drones) in Star Trek appear heavily "greebled" using leftover sprues from previous kitbashing and photoetched bits.

Bogie versions UB, UF and UP are available, although UB 42-60 require kitbashing to produce an accurate result.

Rick Sternbach constructed the model by kitbashing Ertl kits of the movie Enterprise, using parts from other models such as the VF-1 Valkyrie to add detail.

Examples of "Kitbashing" are the Blackpool "De-luxe" tram and Blackpool "Motherwell Open Top" shown here.

Bontrager, David A. - "The Newest Prototype Well Cars: An Abundance of Kitbashing Possibilities".

Like the Nova class dreadnought (based on the Omega class destroyer), this is the result of another technique which those at Foundation Imaging transferred from their earlier careers in visual effects (before the use of computers), called Kitbashing.