Shunichi Makino's AT-AT (Christmas AT-AT)

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The foot and ankle:

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Crab walk! :Grin:

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Now comes something which threw me off (the second alignment mistake I spoke of): The seam lines on the tubes do not match.

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The parts must be turned by 90° so that the hole in 68 is aligned with the seam of part 70:

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The circle on part 68 is a bit too small which makes the flaps showing. I cut the ring a bit shorter on the next feet. That helped a bit but it was not perfect.

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Tube #58 is pushed through the hole. I rotated it so that I could have a good look at the seam line.

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Then the ankle parts are attached.

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Please note that I did not fold the flaps on 56 yet.

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Then two small cylinders are attached:

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and two rods are formed:

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The piston 59 is glued to the 61. 62 is not glued but merely pushed inside 61.

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That allows the piston to move freely. It even rocks! :)

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I was curious to see how the model compares size-wise to the old mpc model kit. Here are a few pictures:

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That shot clearly shows: The papercraft is a bit larger than the mpc. I stand corrected because at the beginning of the project I thought both were the same size.

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A rear view. It looks like both models are the same size but this is due to the fact that I lifted up the plamo version which is now closer to the camera, making it appear bigger than it really is. You too can notice several differences in the detailing. I know that many parts are mirrored on the mpc. The paper model seems to have the greeblies and plates in the correct spots.

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The side guns served me as a guide to beef up the paper guns. I'll tell you the "recipe" in the next post. ;)

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A front view of the plastic side gun. You may use this to flesh out the paper ones which are completely flat.

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Plastic on the left, paper on the right.
 

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I saved the she side guns for last for obvious reasons. I printed two additional versions and started to laminate them.

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Instead of laminating the guns to a thin grey piece as suggested in the instructions I laminated them to 1mm card. I glued a mirrored version of the gun (printed on 160 gsm paper) to the back side.

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Then the "ammo" part of the gun was laminated to 1mm card and attached. The same was done on the back side using a reversed print. Last one circle was laminated to 1mm card and glued to the outside of the gun. The other side may remain without the circle because this is where the gun is mounted to the head.

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The inside of the chin guns were painted dark grey with a marker to disguise the white paper inside.

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The main parts are now stading by for final assembly. :)
 

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Now the legs were attached - and the AT-AT was ready (to go :Grin: )! :)

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One note: I found the upper leg joint and the ankle joint to be very unstable. The joints are handy to pose the model in a nice striding pose but I ended up glueing them together. ;)
 
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