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AT-AT Color Scheme
Posted by Tataki Sila-Jing on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 10:33 PM

I just recently built the AMT AT-AT but I want to paint it something other then white.

I thought a camo scheme but it's silly to try and hide something that big right before it crushes you.

I'm looking for suggestions on it.  A friend of mine thought it would be great to make it look like a crash test vehicle.  You know when the Empire was testing for safety and crumple zones. 

TSJ

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 11:18 PM

It's SF so ANYTHING goes, IMHO.

If  I recall correctly the AT-AT's in all the movies were a light-grey not white, but than most of their walkers and space-ships are either a light-grey or a blue-grey.

Go with a camo-scheme and feel free to mix colours to suit an ALIEN environment like blue and purple, yellow and green, etc.

The way I see it the SW Universe goes way beyond what we see in the movies.

HTH.

P.S.: I have seen even a pic of an AT-AT done up in German WWII markings in a pic(methinks it was on FSM too)

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Posted by SteelSnail on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 11:25 PM
It may be silly to try to hide it, but maybe not to disrupt it's shape.
I think I posted this scheme several months ago, but here it is anyway:


Or you could paint it black with white spots and add horns: it'd look like a cow Tongue [:P]

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 11:32 PM
How about marking it up as a bombing range target for the TIE Bombers?  There's a billion different ideas you can use, and there's nothing wrong with cutting loose with those ideas.

Just have fun with it!

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 11:32 PM

SteelSnail makes a very valid point. If you look at the destroyers and other warships during WWII their camouflage was designed to disrupt their shape and make them appear like smaller or multiple crafts. 

Remember some of the OLD Battle tech camo-schemes. How to camo a 12 metre tall robot, some of them had the lower half in camo and the upper half in sky-blue or similar.

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Posted by maxx1969 on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 11:56 PM
 Tataki Sila-Jing wrote:

A friend of mine thought it would be great to make it look like a crash test vehicle.



Now that would be cool! I like CM's idea to though.Cool [8D]
~Matt T Meyer
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Posted by Tataki Sila-Jing on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 2:04 PM
Thanks for the great ideas.  The target practice ATAT would be great, but I think it would almost be cool to get the Hoth Battle scene and make those ATATs target practice.  Then I thought change that scene to a desert and we can see how some of the Imperials blew off steam on Tatooine.  Which then got my mind thinking about the original ATAT which would be cool in a desert type theme so popular with the tanks these days.  Has anyone put the Hoth Scene together?  What scale is it in?
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Posted by kylwell on Thursday, November 10, 2005 9:18 AM
Thoguth I'd throw this one out there.

A somewhat subtle camo scheme.

http://www.alfredsmind.ca/atatpg.htm
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 11, 2005 6:07 PM

 SteelSnail wrote:
It may be silly to try to hide it, but maybe not to disrupt it's shape.
I think I posted this scheme several months ago, but here it is anyway:


Or you could paint it black with white spots and add horns: it'd look like a cow Tongue [:P]

Ithink it would look great with this scheme in the colours that are on the picture. Black, White, Grey & light grey.

Or what about Tiger stripes or cover it with light brown hair and make it look like a camelClown [:o)] 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:09 AM

for something of that size one would imagine that a camo pattern  would be almost worthless but as far as making it hard to see through gun sights, you could paint it up in a digital pattern much like the US Armies new pattern or the Marine Corps digital pattern. The only difference between the two patterns is the army one doesn't have any black in it because it fades fast.

   If you recall the movies, remember when they show the shots through the binoculars in Empire ( and other shots), remember how pixel like the scene was. just a thought.

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