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| This is the big one. The AT-AT is the largest and bulkiest kit SMT ever offered. This kit arrived in a great number of well detailed pieces with little to no cleanup needed as usual. Only a few parts needed to have some pour stubs sanded off. Assembly was pretty straightforward. The cockpit was bare so I kitbashed parts from several models to detail the walls and make a door and command post. I also rigged up a Super-Ultrabright red LED to light up the cockpit. If you are building this kit, I would suggest reinforcing the legs and their connections to the body underside. I and several other modelers had some problems with collapsing kits due to the extreme weight of the resin. It's not SMT or Alfred Wong's fault, it's just something that happens. Luckily SMT made stronger replacement parts. My AT-AT unfortunately took the plunge and needed to be completely rebuilt. In the fourth picture, you can see some of the reinforcing strips I used. For painting, I based the entire kit in Model Master Light Sea Gray. I then gave a medium dusting of Wal-Mart Flat White over they gray. This lightened it all up to the approximate color of the studio models and gave it a nice dirty look. I then proceeded to wash, dry brush and streak the daylights out of this thing with black and various shades of dark gray. For a nice, in-depth explanation you can check out my Techniques page. To finish off the kit, I put it into a diorama I had in mind since I started the kit. I sprayed an old cutting board gloss black. I then decided where I would want the AT-AT to stand and traced it's footprint. Then I cut irregular pieces of styrofoam and surrounded the foot prints with them and put some around the other areas of the base. I sprayed these extra ones black to represent rocks. I then coated the entire base except for a thin edge with thinned out white glue. I let it dry for a few minutes and then shook an entire box of baking soda onto it. I made sure to pile it up extra high around the styrofoam. I let this dry and blew off all the excess soda. This left a nice coating on the base and over the styrofoam. Some of the black styrofoam showed through and looks like rocks. The pieces around the feet look like snow that was pushed up by the extreme weight of the vehicle. To top it all off, I added some baking soda to various areas of the AT-AT where they may accumulate and then added the SMT Snowspeeder. This is one of my new favorite pieces. It really stands out from the rest of my collection. Unfortunately this kit is no longer available as SMT has ceased production of all Star Wars related kits. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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