This is just beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing, it´s a pleasure to watch and also great reference! I´ve never seen any good reference pictures of the tail plate and this solves many mysteries for me.
Then I removed all the inner ribs and structures inside the shell. It was a tough job.
I built a quick and dirty mockup of the chassis (the black parts on both side of the chassis are glued on the mockup but will be glued to the inside of the hull on the final models, those parts will lock the chassis in place inside the body shell and the detail plates will be glued on them).
In place :
Still a lot of job to do and another Chieftain to buy, but I'm pretty happy with the result so far !
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the BEST AT-AT EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!