AT-ST Rebuilt

Once the filler get dry I started to scracth the cockpit according to the cross-section draw I have of the AT-ST and using spare parts from other kits. I also used three fotograms of the cockpit from "the Return of the Jedi" movie that I found on internet... that's all the reference I had. It's taking shape now...

I also scratch the front desk of the cockpit with some metal (copper wire), resin left overs and plastic from other kits and opened the view ports of the front face.

A front pre-view... not very revealing, uh? well you'll get the idea...

And a couple of general view of the overall progress....

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Antonio Ces

I started to modify de main twin blaster cannon. This mods were concentrated in the rotation wheel, rear armor plate, energy feed lines and other details...

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Antonio Ces

These are the interior pannels, seats, front and back computer pannels of the entire cockpit... all of them are specially designed to be putted together and conform the cockpit....

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Antonio Ces

Thank you Aussie Muscle...

The next sequence of photos show how the 5 different pannels assemble into the head to conform the cockpit. I really glad you guys like it.

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Antonio Ces

The next batch of pictures despicts the detail added to the body of the AT-ST... to be fair with AMT/ERTL this is the only kit of this subject but, still, it is a very innacurate kit. Extensive modifications had to be made:

a) the left leg had to be cut off

b) some detail had to be added in the main engine section

c) hydraulics systems and main hidraulic line in the front

d) and other little details in the legs

After detailling the body I grab the cross-section of the AT-ST and I check the legs. Again the differences between the kit and the original (despicted in the book) were to far away so it needed intervention.... deep intervention specially in the legs ancles... in this batch of pictures I'll show to you the mods there.

First I cut off the shock absorbers of the ancles to the bone in order to start from the leg reconstructing the hole ancle. After that I added some plastic and brass wire to made a correct one as shown.

At this point I saw that the claws has to be modify as well... boy... more work comming up in next batches on pictures....

Greetings

Antonio Ces

Antonio Awesome work on the veteran kit! Very nice kitbash up in the main office, and considering the scale on this ( One of our club guys finished the large Studio Scale size resin kit this spring) its amazing. I think AMT worked off of photos and prduction drawings the model shop  had so it was really innaccurate with so little actual refernce.

How do you plan to display the model? Which one are you going fof here with the added plate, the ESB or ROTJ version?

Keep us updated! :D

David 

 Thank you PatlaborUnit 1 for you kind words... I don't know why any serious company took the AT-ST and re-issue it better than the AMT one.... I found the subject quite attractive for any modeler...

Answering your question.. I'll display it in.... sorry you'll have to keep waiting I wanna it to be a surprise (if you don't mind) to keep the suspense... jejejejjee... don't worry as I said in the beggining it is a finished project so you won't have to wait for me to construct it.... I'll reveale the pictures batch by batch every day in order to keep the step by step as close to reality as possible..

As I said as time passes by I was still founding error that, in my opinion, had to be corrected. In this portion of pictures:

a) detail added to the back of the head, detailling AT-ST's heat exchange and radiators.

b) replace the frontal shock absorbers by a new scratched ones more realistics including the pinstons and wiring.

c) the claws are badly detailed... with a little effort they can become what the should look like...

Greetings

Antonio

Ok, in this batch of pictures I'm back to the cannon and its mount. As you can saw the cannon that comes with the kit has being modified (earlier post) now I'll focus my attention in the cannon's mount and the lower part of the head.

First a previos look of the original mount

And the one in the motion picture Return of the Jedi

So I have work to do...

First the mounting`

Then the cannon's pivoting system matched with the one installed in the cannon

testing the fit between the to mechanism

and some wiring and hydraulics

And finally a view of the result looking now closer to the movie

Greetings

Antonio

Haha! Sweet!

Thats a lot of work to be putting into that kit, but its looking good. More! More!

You hard work and dedication to this Old AMT Kit is worth Commanding!!!

Can't wait for more updates...     the Details you added are exquisite!

Take care and hope to see more soon !

First of all thanks to Cosmic J and Schweinhund227 to their kind support.

Okidoki... now will start detailling the roof top of the AT-ST's head. Let's see the new batch of pictures. Some severe damages were made to the original roof top after I cut it off from the original laydown. So I had to made a new one.... only the cooling pannel has being saved.

Some extra detail has being added to the hatch

In the roof there's a hand railing... guess what the original is too thick... a new one from brass was made.

Greetings

Antonio

In this batch we'll construct the cheeck guns. Of course that the ones supplied doesn't satisfied my need for realism (and at this point you'ld got realized of that) and in order to finish with a nice writting more scratch has to be done.

The new items are both guns and new basement for each gun.

Now a hole view of the imporvements made.... we´re now getting close to the final result...

Greetings

Antonio

Hello Bobafet... thanks for your comments... yes I'm a little bit insane, jejejejeje... no, I don't think there's any aftermarket products for this kit. I believe in the old ways of the force (scratching) to get incredible things from old pieces and plain plastic. Indeed the cross-section books are outstanding, also the collection of books called " the art of Star Wars".

Boba Fett wrote:

Wow, just amazing. The amount of work you have put into that thing is insane! (I mean that in a good way.) Is any of that detail on the aftermarket? Or is it all scratch? Keep it up! By the way, cross section books are awesome! I see you were using them too. Just used them on my AMT Falcon when I detailed it about 2 years ago.

LOL! I was gonna use the term "madman" (also in a good way).

Very enjoyable so far. Good camera work too. Those close ups take a lot of the mystery out of your detailing; they sort of explain themselves if you know what I mean. Inspirational too.

Thanks much.

Thanks for your support and nice words fellow madmen, jejejejeje.... well let's start finishing this baby by painting and preparing the base. As you'll see in the next pictures I decided to put my AT-ST in the dark days where the empire had its victory on the freezed plains of hoth. 

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Antonio

Real quick comment, everything looks great, but what are the blue cabels? Power lines of some sort? In their current color, they look kinda fake. I would recommend black as it looks more, "Star Warzy". Also, if you want destroyed weapons like an E-web that got trashed, look for Star Wars miniatures. That would look awesome on the base!

YES! the madman modeling club! Our battle cry, "jejejejejejejejejejeje...!" Or we could do an Ewok scream! Aieeeeya! (sorry )

Thabks for your kind comments.... Bobafet, I don't know the htink is that I made a survey acroos my fellow modelers is Caracas and they voted for changing the color of the power cables in order to bring a little color into the diorama... I don't know I thought that the color should be blaw or dark grey but what can I said I'm a marketing guy so I finnally choose to follow the crow... I hope you'll still love the final result....

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Antonio

Ok so let's paint the head of our AT-ST and let's wash it a little bit... of course if we're doing it on the surface of Hoth just moments after the empire reahed the rebel base we have to make some scars and blasters impacts in da face. Those rebel scumb just damage the paint work.... damn....

Ups... I miss-up a little spot that I must re-work....

Ok so next photos are the final ones.... a little bit of suspense... don't miss the final pictures here...

Greetings

Antonio

Antonioces wrote:

Thabks for your kind comments.... Bobafet, I don't know the htink is that I made a survey acroos my fellow modelers is Caracas and they voted for changing the color of the power cables in order to bring a little color into the diorama... I don't know I thought that the color should be blaw or dark grey but what can I said I'm a marketing guy so I finnally choose to follow the crow... I hope you'll still love the final result....   Greetings Antonio

I do see what you mean with adding a little color, It just looks too clean! Maybe add a little wash to it will make it look better. Dude, I will love the final result! You are cool in my book!

So after a painfull proccess I'm proud to present you all my AT-ST Rebuilted. Thank you for your kind observations and comments.

Greetings

Antonio Ces

For those who asked if I'll let the top opened or closed.... here's your answer

 And the final complete view including scratched logos of the "Empire Strikes Back" movie (plastic), Empire's seal (plastic) and Star Wars logo (metal sheet).

A very beautiful build. I love it! Great job and thanks for sharing the work in progress discussions.

Charlie

smeagol the vile wrote:

As awesome as the model itself is, I must say your pannel lining/shading on the corners are way to dark and way to large, it looks like you took a sharpe to do it...  You should have tried a wash.

LOL! I thought it was spot on, just right.

Just goes to show, different strokes...

Very nice build Antonio. Fast, too.