My favorite detail:
I was waiting to see if anyone noticed one particular detail I added to the kit. No one has mentioned it yet so I’ll just go ahead and post about it. See anything unique about this shot?
It’s the tiny Flakvierling parts above each “toe”. I hadn’t planned to include them, since I didn’t think I could manufacture something so small. However, fellow RPFer and resident AT-AT expert and computer modeler, Dragnink, offered me a way to get perfectly scaled Flakvierling parts. I traded some stuff with Matt for a file that he’d compiled, that I then sent to Shapeways, and here’s the result of that:
These things are tiny! And they’re perfect. Matt has modeled the part beautifully and they came out perfectly. The Shapeways order page said they were too small and wouldn’t necessarily print well, so I had to check the “Print Anyway” box and hope for the best. They were all flawless.
They are also much smaller than the parts cast into the hull of the MPC model:
If I ever build another one of these (hopefully Bandai will come out with an accurate kit and I won’t have to worry about that) I’ll shave off all the oversized Flakvierling (it’s such a fun word to type!) parts and replace them with Matt’s printed parts.
I think they really add to the feet, which were sorely under-detailed to begin with. Here’s another look at the final result, this time with snow added, (which I’ll get to in the next post).
So thank you,
dragnink, aka Matt Riegel, for the cool parts and for making my MPC AT-AT look that much better. And thanks for the very kind words in your earlier post about this thread.
David