{"id":98268,"date":"2016-07-11T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T10:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=98268"},"modified":"2016-07-11T12:37:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T10:37:29","slug":"bethesda-built-a-real-life-bfg-from-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/98268-bethesda-built-a-real-life-bfg-from-doom","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda built a real-life BFG from DOOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bethesda has 3D-printed a <strong>1:1 scale model<\/strong> of the BFG from DOOM.<\/p>\n<p>The BFG is the biggest and most badass\u00a0gun in the game, and is constantly featured throughout the DOOM franchise &#8211; even appearing in the DOOM film.<\/p>\n<p>The model was 3D-printed by MyMiniFactory, who specialise in manufacturing and 3D-printing scale models.<\/p>\n<p>The gun is ridiculously large and unwieldy, measuring <strong>50cm wide, 50cm tall, and over a metre in length.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bethesda provided the manufacturers with the actual game asset of the BFG, allowing them to create an exact replica of the weapon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out the making of the massive weapon below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7vs9ILE8s7s\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to get cheap iPhones and cheap iPhone repairs in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/97888-how-to-get-cheap-iphones-and-cheap-iphone-repairs-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to get cheap iPhones and cheap iPhone repairs in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How soon fibre can overtake ADSL in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/97940-how-soon-fibre-can-overtake-adsl-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How soon fibre can overtake ADSL in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Pok\u00e9mon GO is more popular than Tinder\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/98224-pokemon-go-is-more-popular-than-tinder.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Pok\u00e9mon GO is more popular than Tinder<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethesda has 3D-printed a scale model of the BFG from DOOM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":98270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[20272,31,165,20270,883,17881],"class_list":["post-98268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-3d-printed","tag-active","tag-bethesda","tag-bfg","tag-doom","tag-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}