Studio Scale stop-mo TESB AT-ST

[MonsieurTox]

Thanks Matt and Allan !

I worked a bit on it, I dressed the chassis with kitparts. It was really fun !
Ive also cleaned up the hero leg (took me 2 hours... :angry).
She starts to looks like an AT-ST now !

 

[ralphee]

Julien its looking fantastic, the chassis is such a pain in the *** anyhoo, but you have nailed it as close to the ref as can be, bravo!

lee

 

[MonsieurTox]

Thanks bro !

TBH I studied Allan's, Eric's and yours pics in addition of the ref pics to be sure of what I was doing because as you said, it's quite tricky ! (I broke the 312T plate while I was cuting it :s).

 

[ralphee]

Yeah that 312 plate is a bit of an ask in cutting, looks funky when all the Ferrari stuff is fitted though, always felt that was an inside joke from Joe to George, given his love of Ferrari's.

lee

 

[propologist]

any chance well see it set inside an ewok forest with rolling logs....? I always wanted those logs they used .

 

[ralphee]

any chance well see it set inside an ewok forest with rolling logs....? I always wanted those logs they used .

Your thinking ROTJ, and this is the TESB "Hoth" variant, very different animals!

lee

 

[propologist]

crap your right..i miss read the opening title., oops

 

[MonsieurTox]

So I bought a built C-600 off ebay (thanks bro ), it had an heavy coat of paint :

It was a tough task to de-glue the parts :/ I tried to strip the paint off, I still have some area to clean up !
I glued the rail parts at the back of the C-600 parts, parts are not glued on the armature yet :

 

[tk1608]

Brilliant stuff Julien !!

Phil

 

[MonsieurTox]

Thanks Phil !

Hopefully it will look better once painted :lol

I have to enlarge the cutout on the karl part but Im pretty done with the upper leg now, and while not 100% perfect, Im happy with the result :

 

[Scott Graham]

Looks awesome Julien!

Is that styrene sheet under the red F1 piece? I noticed on Allan's that he mentions it looked like a kit part, but I haven't been able to figure out what it is.

It's not a very visible part, so it's not a big deal. The mold line on the part reminded me of the morser truss piece above it. It would just be trimmed flat.

 

[MonsieurTox]

Looks awesome Julien!

Is that styrene sheet under the red F1 piece? I noticed on Allan's that he mentions it looked like a kit part, but I haven't been able to figure out what it is.

It's not a very visible part, so it's not a big deal. The mold line on the part reminded me of the morser truss piece above it. It would just be trimmed flat.

Yep that's sotck styrene on my build Scott !

Allan used indeed the Morser Karl part, the mold line looks good but it doesnt match perfectly the original part so I decided to go this way and scratch it

Not a big deal as you said cut it's not very visible indeed !

 

[eagle1]

Love it mate, fantastic seeing all the kit parts in place, nice clean work bro!.:love

 

[ckwanwoo]

Fantastic work Julien~!

I will expect you make another masterpiece.:thumbsup

thanks Eric.

 

[Rats]

Looks amazing Julien. Another top notch build....as usual from you!

Cheers, JT

 

[Scott Graham]

I want to post this to give a bump to Julien's AWESOME build! This is a great resource for obscure Star Wars pics. Here's a rare 3/4 pic of this AT-ST. Check out the other pics. Many never before seen: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...19871842&aid=-1&oid=28119871842&id=1221420061

LOL...didn't recognize it as the japanese magazine scan. The other objects on the scanned page aren't there. Doh!

 

[MonsieurTox]

Thank you all !

Yeah Scott, that's the same good ol' pic !

Ive been in trouble with my AT-ST head. I used an old can of Tamiya primer and it was thick and did bubbles all over the surface of it. The head was ruined. I tried to remove the primer (that's a lacquer so it's quite hard) with thinner, it worked well but some of the kit parts which had stress on it (because they were glued with a bend) broke in several parts (the M5 fender, I used the casting of Steve's kit instead of the original kitpart, I was out of M5). The 232 hatches of the front became soft so I replaced them with parts from a vintage 232 (sharper). The styrene of the head showed some cracks on the surface, only 2 but I fixed them. I hope the head doesnt suffer of more damage I havent noticed.

Well after 3 attempt at spray a coat of primer on it, I was happy with the result and I followed with the body/leg. The upper leg of the non hero side isnt painted because I have to buy another gepard for a part I need so it's unbuilt yet.

That's not perfect but Im happy that I saved the head (I was close to throw it in the air yesterday...).

Here's the pics :

 

[MonsieurTox]

She's almost done, I have some parts to add : hexagonal tubing (on the way), intake for the chin gun (on the way), Titan 90 part (on the way as I was not able to find my casting from Nice-N kit), part from the trailer on the right morser part (believe it or not but I lost the sprue lol), Entex part. I'm not sure what to do, this model obvioulsy had the M5 fenders on the non hero side and they came off during shoting or after. But I like the look it has w/o them.
She's not one of my fav model so I reckon that today I rushed the job to finish her. She's like she's, with her defaults. Now some pics :

And what I use to hold the knee pads :

Tomorrow I'll paint her, thanks for looking !

 

[Scratchy]

Beautiful work Tox!

She may not be your favorite, but it is one of mine. You can send it to me if you can't stand the sight of that AT-ST :rolleyes

 

[ckwanwoo]

Great multiple work friend~~!

I can also see the valuable of painting from your chicken :thumbsup

thanks Eric.