Pick your chicken (Imperial edition) ;-)

Revell-Fan · Nov 27, 2022

Thank you very much!

The engine section is finished:

B-1 gets some card to touch the rear of the B-2 box.

I noticed that the cover is not fully closed. I added a grey plate to change that:

It is a bit hard to see but trust me, it is there.

The cockpit interior parts come from UHU02's AT-ST. They had to be adapted a bit to fit.

I added a simple plate to complete the look:

The head is higher than UHU02's so it was necessary to add some height to the seats:

For the same reason they had to be pushed a bit back:

The flap at the front is folded up. The side pieces have two tasks: To texture the back side of the mouth region of the kit and to act as glue tabs.

The head is closed. Here I made a mistake: I worked too fast and closed the head without adding the internal side walls! Now what to do? I cut open the back and installed the walls.

Then I glued the back back to its previous position.

The "ears":

Please note that I used the small trapezoid piece that has to be cut out from the full circle to close the part from the back. So I recommend not throwing it away.

Rhaven Blaack · Nov 27, 2022

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!

micahrogers · Nov 27, 2022

Great work.

mijob · Nov 27, 2022

Again verry great job.

Awry_Chaos · Dec 6, 2022

Excellent work!

zathros · Dec 6, 2022

What you've done here is beyond impressive. The detail you added makes it possible to greeble this walker up to "Nth" level! Truly awesome!!

Revell-Fan · Dec 6, 2022

Thank you but there are still several things which I cannot address now because of the short time frame. There will be one or two more edits necessary to make the ultimate one.

Chuffy70 · Dec 7, 2022

...and then Hasbro re-releases the AT-ST yesterday!

Stunning work so far

Revell-Fan · Dec 7, 2022

Chuffy70 said:
...and then Hasbro re-releases the AT-ST yesterday!

I literally said the same thing yesterday! We are obviously in a state of walker feaver! :animated:

I have the first TVC release. It's a gorgeous model but from what I have heard it does not stand very well. Mine is packed away so I cannot comment on that. However, regarding the paper version I must say that it DOES fall over. I have added all joints necessary to give you some posing fun but once you are satisfied you'll have to glue the joints together. Because if you don't:

...

Well, which in retrospect is TOTALLY screen-accurate!!!

:animated:

Revell-Fan · Dec 7, 2022

Let's get back to the top hatch. The original kit has a simple paper strip as a hinge. I thought this was too unstable and came up with a more sturdier version consisting of two vertical and two horizontal struts and some paper clip wire.

It is important to dry-fit everything to make sure that the hatch is closing nicely. The length of the vertical struts need to be adjusted by the builder depending on the thickness of the hatch. The mounts need a hole. This is made by cutting a cross into the center of the circle and carefully widening it with a sharp toothpick. Then the wire is pushed through and cut to fit. Both ends are bent over to secure everything.

The horizontal struts are glued to the hatch, the vertical struts are glued to the head.

Let everything dry completely to make sure that the connection is stable.

The engine section gets two laminated strips with the wheels at the front:

The top shields are assembled and attached:

The neck tube is installed and the stacked cups are glued to it:

Awry_Chaos · Dec 7, 2022

Great work!

Revell-Fan · Dec 7, 2022

Now we are dealing with the chin guns. The original had no interior texture. I changed that:

Two extra parts were added:

The laser generator thingie gets two holes which are widened with a toothpick:

The oiginal structure was open, now it is closed. Too late I noticed that I cut the holes at the wrong end. This was fixed easily by laminating a piece of grey paper over the holes and making new ones in the correct positions. Two rods were pushed through the holes and glued to the part:

A plate was added:

The parts for the main guns:

And everything in place:

Revell-Fan · Dec 7, 2022

The side gun array was completely renewed. The first attempt failed because it was too detailed and unbuildable at this scale, so I had to simplify it. As a result I have chosen to build a simple box:

Two H-shaped mounts:

The original barrels were made of tubes. I think everyone knows how much I like making tubes... :hammerhead:

Ah well. To make them more true to the filming model I chose a different way: I cut out several textured rectangles and simply rolled them up. To give them a pointy tip and some structure I cut the strips to shape.

You may use toothpicks or wire instead.

The tubes were glued to the box:

One of the mounts was used to attach the side armour plate:

Four laminated circles were glued to the back to give the impression that the tubes go all the way through the box.

The other mount will keep the array on the head later:

Not perfect but it will do.

Revell-Fan · Dec 7, 2022

The well-known armour plates at the bottom are attached:

I copied the parts directly from Shunichi's AT-AT and recoloured them to match the lighter paint scheme.

The neck was prolongued a bit so that it does not bounce into the armour plate above the wheels when you turn it around. The head pivot is the only point of articulation aside from the opening hatch which will work on the finished model.