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I've always loved AT-ATs. Ever since I first saw The Empire Strikes Back when I was little. As a result, I got this crazy idea - how cool would it be to have a little AT-AT running around the house? I harbored this idea for a while, but decided to pursue it a) when I had more time, and b) when I had a better grasp on how to engineer a robotic walker.
Requirements a and b have been fulfilled, so I just dove right in!
A company called fascinations has a line of tiny sheet metal Star Wars figures, one of which being an AT-AT. I had already bought one and assembled it for my father (and it now sits proudly with his clone trooper and R2), so I decided to buy another one, scan it, enlarge it, and then base the simple frame off of it. Other than a few mistakes made on my part in enlarging, changing, and improving the blueprints to be fabricated in styrene (rather than metal), it's worked fantastically.
I decided to start with the head, so I pulled the pieces of the metal model I needed, broke them apart, worked some photoshop magic to turn them into blueprints, and voila! I was able to cut all of the base pieces of the head:
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Requirements a and b have been fulfilled, so I just dove right in!
A company called fascinations has a line of tiny sheet metal Star Wars figures, one of which being an AT-AT. I had already bought one and assembled it for my father (and it now sits proudly with his clone trooper and R2), so I decided to buy another one, scan it, enlarge it, and then base the simple frame off of it. Other than a few mistakes made on my part in enlarging, changing, and improving the blueprints to be fabricated in styrene (rather than metal), it's worked fantastically.
I decided to start with the head, so I pulled the pieces of the metal model I needed, broke them apart, worked some photoshop magic to turn them into blueprints, and voila! I was able to cut all of the base pieces of the head: