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Star
Wars Imperial AT-AT All Terrain Armored Transport Walker
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This is a dream come
true. I always (now and as a child) wanted to have a model of this
fascinating vehicle. When my "dark ages" were over, LEGO
just started releasing their Star Wars sets, and I found all those
great custom models on the net.
At that time, my amount of light gray bricks wasn't very numerous.
Although I had seen the pictures of Shaun
Sullivan's AT-ST, I decided to build Bram
Lambrecht's rendition of it, because he had provided instructions
for it on the net and I never thought that I could build Shaun's
version with my brick supplies. Then I came across some pictures
of a Star Wars scenery (NETLUG
at MIT
Mindfest '99) featuring two AT-ATs (one by Shaun Sullivan, the
other by David Eaton).
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At the
same time a LEGO truck stopped at our local TRU to promote the new
Star Wars sets. Inside this truck also was a scenery featuring (among
a small Death Star and a Star Destroyer) two giant AT-ATs.
But I never ever
thought that I would have such a model myself some time, because
I simply didn't have enough (light gray) bricks. But then I found
a guy who was selling individual LEGO parts, so (still having the
AT-AT in mind) I crammed my bags with lots and lots of gray bricks
& castle slope parts until he stopped me. Back at home I rendered
a few pictures of Iven
Connary's great 3D model to use as additional reference.
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Although
I took the dimensions of the main body from Shaun's & David's
models, I tried to build as much as I could using my own ideas,
including the head, back and feet.
But sometimes it
was simply unavoidable to copy some of their great ideas.
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The neck
consists of four 5571/5563 rims and due to a special mechanism (see
pic on the right) the head can be put in (almost) any position.
At first the legs
had "knee joints" (using the "new" #30364/65
hinges), but for the sake of stability I made them stiff later,
so the model was able to stand on its own.
Model dimensions: length: 65cm, height: 55cm
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On the
right is Bram Lambrecht's original AT-ST. Later, when the instructions
for Shaun's AT-ST were available on the net (and I had acquired
even more gray bricks), I decided to built his AT-ST
to go along with the AT-AT.
And now he has updated
his rendition of the AT-ST to an even greater revision
2.
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