Scratch built 1/10th scale AT-ST

Herofan

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Hey all, just finished this build last week. 1/10th scale, all hand cut acrylic ranging from 1mm to 10mm thickness. It got very heavy by the end weighing in at about 13kg, standing almost 800mm tall. I ended up making a base for it due to paranoia of it not being able to hold it's own weight. Took a total of 160 hours of lots of bandsaw, filing, sanding work. Quite repetitive too with needing to make multiples of plenty of pieces. Hope you all like it, it was a really fun build.
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Hey Herofan, was your "chicken walker" movable and had articulation before you mounted it on the base? Just curious....

Absolutely gorgeous!
 
Incredible job for sure:cool Love the "out of the production line" look. We've been used to the worn battle kinda look for so long that seeing a clean bird is a nice change!
 
Wow!!! Such a clean build, simply awesome. And I wish I had a workshop like that (yep I am truly jealous). Congrats on a class A build!.

PS: are you also doing R2s? Just seeing the ref pics on the wall ;)
 
Hey Herofan, was your "chicken walker" movable and had articulation before you mounted it on the base? Just curious....

Absolutely gorgeous!

While building it I was always concerned with what finished leg positions I would use to get it to balance and also look right so a made all of the leg joints movable but in the end I mostly permanently fixed them in position because of the weight. The head can still tilt forward/back and side to side, the cannons/blasters can all move and the hatch can open although it's just hollow inside.
 
Thanks Joberg, I always had the intention to weather it but after finishing painting I couldn't bring myself to touch it. Mostly due to not enough confidence in myself to not ruin it. Maybe one day when I'm feeling more courageous
 
Wow!!! Such a clean build, simply awesome. And I wish I had a workshop like that (yep I am truly jealous). Congrats on a class A build!.

PS: are you also doing R2s? Just seeing the ref pics on the wall ;)

Thanks Captain, yep, love my workshop, could always be bigger and more organised but I love it in there. I've been building a static R2 off and on for about 2 years now, too easily distracted with 'the next thing' to finish it. It's probably 70% there. I'll get there one day....maybe
 
While building it I was always concerned with what finished leg positions I would use to get it to balance and also look right so a made all of the leg joints movable but in the end I mostly permanently fixed them in position because of the weight. The head can still tilt forward/back and side to side, the cannons/blasters can all move and the hatch can open although it's just hollow inside.

Wow...just fantastic! I have a friend who gave me a handful of miniature hydraulic piston struts, and my first thought was to use them on the legs of a chicken walker, but I don't possess the talent, the patience, nor the 3-D printer to build an AT-ST...but seeing your build gives me inspiration to look further into modeling. Great stuff!
 
Wow, impressive. I know nothing about the ROTJ AT-ST.
Did ILM build a 1/10th for the crushed head and other actions? Was it the main scale for this model?
 
Wow, impressive. I know nothing about the ROTJ AT-ST.
Did ILM build a 1/10th for the crushed head and other actions? Was it the main scale for this model?

Thanks guys for the nice comments. Maxhebus, I'm not totally sure but at a guess it looks like about 1/10th. Brings a tear to the eye to see it crushed, for a good cause I guess. Screenshot_20170404-052948.jpg
 
Wow...just fantastic! I have a friend who gave me a handful of miniature hydraulic piston struts, and my first thought was to use them on the legs of a chicken walker, but I don't possess the talent, the patience, nor the 3-D printer to build an AT-ST...but seeing your build gives me inspiration to look further into modeling. Great stuff!

Hey disanto, this was the first scratch built model I ever made, while I have scratch built a fair few weapons, never a model. I loved the process, while sometimes repetitive, it's really rewarding. Do you own a bandsaw, bench disc sander (or similar) a drill of somesort, files (needle files are your best friend) Those are the main tools I used for the whole build. As far as materials go, I have an acrylic supplier that sells scrap. I buy it for $5/kg so the whole build, excluding paint, only cost about $60. I also had a small Bandai model i used digital calipers on to scale off and then a heap of rederence pics online to see more detail. As long as you have patience you should go for it!
 
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