Scratchbuilt AT-ST with an Easter twist...

Rob1970 · Apr 20, 2014

Since the LEDs and some other parts I need for my A.o.S. Bus-build I wanted to do something else.
I promised myself something easy after I finished the Halifax yesterday. Yeah... sure...

Another forum I frequent holds an Egg-plane group build every year around easter. I don't have an egg-plane in my stash, so I decided to do something different...
I proudly present the scourge of the vile Rebels and fuzzy forest creatures alike...

The AT-ST!!

Uhm... ofcourse I mean The AT-EGGsT!!

What? You think the safety of the Eggpire is a yolk? I find your lack of faith disturbing...

Plotting out parts on a simple side-view drawing...

Old-fashioned carbon-paper to transfer the drawing to some 0.5mm styrene sheet to make templates...

Template one... three more to do...

Transfering all four terplates to the 2.5mm styrene sheet with the help of some push-pins and a scribing needle...

All the templates transferred and given a wash...

Ye olde fret-saw and jig...

First part done, only a gazzilion to go. No pressure...

A pile of parts that need to be cleaned up. Which leads to...

...powdered egg everywhere... on the workbench...

...and even more on the floor...

But I guess you can't break a Rebellion without making some legs...

Rob

Wayne Bakken · Apr 20, 2014

I have to subscribe just to see the eggciting conclusion.

robn1 · Apr 20, 2014

There's something you don't see every day, cool idea.

Rats · Apr 20, 2014

Wayne Bakken said:
I have to subscribe just to see the eggciting conclusion.

Eggsactly! This is a cracking build, and that's no yolk!

Keep up the good work, novel idea!

Rob1970 · Apr 21, 2014

"Day Two. They still think I'm an Ewok... I'm not sure it's the hair that convinced them, or the smell..."

Aaaaaanyway... legs all done. I fattened up the upper parts with a differently shaped layer of 2mm styrene on each side, and put a piece between the two shims of the leg-part below that to fill it out. I'll greeble the legs up later along with the rest of the structures when they are all done.

Made a template for the "shoulderblades" that attach the legs to the drive unit. Actually made two, one a tad smaller then the main one.

Two shoulders done. The middle layer is the main template, the top and bottom layer are made with the slightly smaller template to make the thing look less massive. Probably not cannon... but meh. It's my egg. As you can see I also made them less wide in the end compared to the templates.

Figuring out the shape of the drive unit...

Box! I mean drive unit... part of it anyway...

The rear of the drive unit has a very recognizable shape, and two very prominent exhausts. So, we make holes.

So glad I have a set of lock-smith files...

Stainless steel axle... nothing is good enough for my egg-walker...

Shoulder on.

Hmmm... now this shows promise...

Rob

Mike J. · Apr 21, 2014

LOL! Adorable!

joberg · Apr 21, 2014

Eggcellent job so far...love the scratchbuild stuff also

Rob1970 · Apr 22, 2014

Another day, another update. I actually quite like where this is going... so I am sure I am going to regret it at some point...

I angled the bottom of the box upwards and filled in the sides, then started to add more layers to the sides, leaving a space for the "shoulders"...

Three layers in total, all getting smaller and smaller...

...on both sides, making the sides 8mm of solid styrene thanks to Tamiya ET...

Scribed and washed in a centerline on both sides...

...and a lot of fettling, filing and sanding later, you get this...

Out comes the box of greeblies! I made a small selection of the more promising ones.

"Didn't you just make that whole boxy thing?" -"Yup..." -"The one you spent a few hours on, glueing, filing and sanding?" -"Yup..." -"And are you now cutting a great big hole into the front!?" -"Ayup!..."

"Don't worry, I'm gonna fill it with... stuff..."

Lots of stuff...

Hard to identify stuff...

Everything looks better with primer...

What the cluck!?

Tomorrow I am going to do something unspeakable to that egg...
Rob

Guy Cowen · Apr 22, 2014

Thats awesome

blakeh1 · Apr 22, 2014

Amazing!

Caretaker10 · Apr 22, 2014

Eggselent work Rob..

very curious what you intend to do to that poor little egg..

Rob1970 · Apr 22, 2014

Well... I've been staring and tinkering with it for an hour tonight... I have to translate a topless piramid/box shape to an egg-shape, making it look AT-ST-like and egg-like at the same time...
Yeah... that's gonna be interesting. I -think- I have the right idea, but only a lot of tinkering tomorrow is going to prove me right...

...or terribly, disastrously wrong...

I can hardly wait!

Rob

drjag · Apr 22, 2014

This is egg-straordinary work! I guess you've got to egg-speriment to make it look like an egg and an AT-ST, hopefully, you'll hatch a plan to get it right.
That's all yolks.

Voodoocaster · Apr 22, 2014

What came first the egg or the chicken-walker?:lol
looks great!!

joberg · Apr 22, 2014

As Daffy would say: you Thir are Sthupendthous! Love what you're doing with the greeblies!

Rob1970 · Apr 24, 2014

Today, we make yummy, yummy filled eggs!

Well, maybe not -that- yummy... Expanding foam is expanding! All over the place!!

I fished them out of the gooey mess and taped off the holes to let them expand and harden a little more. Took them about an hour to cure.
I used normal builder-type insulation foam from a can.

An hour later; 1 bad egg, four good ones. The bad egg somehow managed to expel all the foam I pumped into it... weirrrrrd...

Now... the task of translating an odd-angled box-shape into something that still resembles both...

Here's how that inner dialog went while I was pondering the problem last night as I lay awake in bed...

Rob: "Hey Rob's Brain! Come on, I need your help!"
Rob's Brain: "Wut? I'm busy..."
Rob: "I need to translate this odd box-shape into an egg, without the box losing it's distinct boxey-ness, while gaining a definite degree of eggtitude..."
Rob's Brain: "You what!?"
Rob: "I need. To translate. A box-shape. Into an egg-shape. Without the box losing it's distinct boxey-ness. All the while gaining a definite degree of eggtitude..."
Rob's Brain: "Eggtitude? That's not even a word!"
Rob: "Yes it is. I just used it."
Rob's Brain: "You made it up! Just because you made it up doesn't make it a proper word!"
Rob: "Fine. It's not a proper-proper word. But can you help me?"
Rob's Brain: *sigh* "Fine... here's what you do... *long-winded explanation* Can I go back to what I was doing now?"
Rob: "Yeah, fine. Thanks... What were you busy with anyway?"
Rob's Brain: *indistinct muttering*
Rob: "What..?"
Rob's Brain: "Thinking up fanfic featuring Scarlett Johanson as the Black Widow, fighting a super-villain that uses mind-control and a gun that sprays feromone-laced acid that desolves clothes..."
Rob: "You're a freak..."
Rob's Brain: "Hey, I'm -your- brain..."
Rob: "Touché..."

Sooo... I made a straight front and back for the body, with holes for the egg...

Tapered the holes and fixed them to the egg at an angle...

I cut a load of strips from 1mm styrene..,

Then I started adding curved bits of strip to the to the top, following the curve of the egg underneath. First one, starting in the middle...

...then two and three...

...and onwards untill we reach and overlap the end...

Then I laminated strips of 0.5mm styrene on top. Tamiya Extra Thin melts it down goooooood...

...and I did the whole thing...

And this is now all trimmed, sanded and quite solid!

Only three more sides to do in the same way... and then it's time for putty and sanding.

Rob

Teddz · Apr 24, 2014

it looks like the AT ST has a nose. Eggsemplary work my friend...

Rob1970 · Apr 26, 2014

I made eggcellent progress the last few days, filling out the eggy box-bit with an extra rib for support...

...and adding more layers of styrene...

...smooooooth styrene... (and my workshop/man-cave looks like I'm a very messy coke-addict... white dust -everywhere-...

...but it's getting there...

Yeah... proper eggtitude almost achieved...

Rob

Caretaker10 · Apr 26, 2014

That looks eggsemplary Rob..
Nice and smooth finish. How's your nose?? All the dust snorted up?

Are you going to add more detail to the legs?

Wayne Bakken · Apr 26, 2014

This just too eggstraodinary. I can't wait to see the next eggciting update.

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