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ESB AT-ST BUILD: "ka chung, ka chung, ka chung…" - Scott Graham - 04-29-2012
This is Allan Hansen's partially built project that I've taken over. Allan had built the head and top of the chassis - some of the most difficult and important areas to scratch and modify kit parts. Also, the kit parts were ordered very neatly into bags representing the subassemblies, which helped move things along in an orderly fashion. Allan also made possible placement of non-canon symmetry in some of the head parts on the right side of the head by using magnets to hold them on or pose it with them off, as is the stop motion puppet. Even the chin guns are held on with magnets.
Since all of that was taken care of, I've completed most of the rest of it the last two weeks. These pics show it as of last weekend. Since then I've made a couple of mistakes that I'll just have to live with. Hopefully they're not too noticeable and can be put down to "interpretation". Everyone seems to build them a little differently and makes them a little more neat than the original - which had hot glue blobs especially all over the right thigh area. The original was built in such a rush I'm surprised it held up for filming!
I'll post pics of this weekend's progress in the next day or so. I'm just placing the hoses and such now. They're the last parts to go on it. Oh yeah, and the little part that goes under the nebelwerfer arms in the upper thigh area. The feet and engine areas are just fit in place, no glue yet.
I ended up scratching the inner thigh plate that had me scratching my head and on an intergalactic search of obscure kit parts trying to find it. Life's too short, and I had to move on.
For the most part I wrote with pen on parts then eyeballed x-acto-ing or razor blading the cuts on parts. Only in one area did I waste an AMT flatbed part by cutting it incorrectly.
Now I have my own unstarted AT-ST to figure out what to do with. I'd like to make another, using this as reference. The other might be idealized and symmetrical instead of asymmetrical like this one. All I know is I can't get enough of building these. I also have a Neisen version I made a diorama of.
So far I've had a blast with this!
RE: ESB AT-ST BUILD: "ka chung, ka chung, ka chung…" - darkimmitator - 04-29-2012
Very cool !!!
RE: ESB AT-ST BUILD: "ka chung, ka chung, ka chung…" - Wombat - 04-29-2012
Nice looking build you have there!
I like seeing these sort of builds before the primer goes on. Really show what goes into getting something like this to look of how it does when completed. Looks like ya having fun, keep at it!!
RE: ESB AT-ST BUILD: "ka chung, ka chung, ka chung…" - Scott Graham - 04-30-2012
Thanks guys!
As of this weekend it's complete, almost. It still needs a part and all of the hoses are in place but not cemented. They have to be removable from the chassis portion in order to paint it all then assemble it.
The right side shows how minimally finished it is. I even added a couple more parts than it actually has just to make it look a bit more normal.
Many thanks on this build also to Quincy Cutshaw for putting together the armature and parts list. He was following up on what Allan, Lee, Jason and Julien had found earlier. With the armature drawings originally coming, I believe, from Allan. And Guy recently found one of the last remaining parts to ID.
I've looked at all of your builds constantly to help see what's going on with this thing. Thank you all.
RE: ESB AT-ST BUILD: "ka chung, ka chung, ka chung…" - JAWS - 04-30-2012
Doesn't need paint.
These replicas look awsome just in the raw.
Nice build Scott.
Thanks for posting & good to see you at it again.
RE: ESB AT-ST BUILD: "ka chung, ka chung, ka chung…" - Scott Graham - 04-30-2012
Thanks Jason! I actually don't want to paint it, but feel I must eventually. I have pics to show it unpainted. I have another AT-ST waiting to build. Maybe that'll be the painted one. I don't know now what to do!
RE: ESB AT-ST BUILD: "ka chung, ka chung, ka chung…" - Wombat - 04-30-2012
It would be cool to have one painted and one not but it'd be a hard thing not to paint it eventually. That final look is i think what we all are chasing most of the time. Still, it does look very cool as it stands now!
RE: ESB AT-ST BUILD: "ka chung, ka chung, ka chung…" - qcfoundry - 04-30-2012
musta been asleep -- Scott, what part did Guy find?
RE: ESB AT-ST BUILD: "ka chung, ka chung, ka chung…" - Scott Graham - 05-01-2012
Guy ID'd them a few weeks ago on RPF. Maybe they'd been ID'd before, but that was the first I'd hear of them being found. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Edit: oops. Probably shouldn't share it. I didn't find the part! Guy found both parts.
RE: ESB AT-ST BUILD: "ka chung, ka chung, ka chung…" - Guy Cowen - 05-20-2012
Thanks Scott, it is nice to be asked but no problem mate, as a rule if I want to keep an ID private I will so if I've posted it publicly then the more people that no the better.
I dont think I was the first to ID these but I never new them and I'd never been told what they where so I can claim to be not stupid if nothing else :-)
RE: ESB AT-ST BUILD: "ka chung, ka chung, ka chung…" - JAWS - 05-21-2012
Sharing is caring & progressing this art further by it.
Cheers for that to all.