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Ravendeviant [2020-04-19 17:30:16 +0000 UTC]

Before I can get to work building any model, first I have to do some research on the design to get good reference material.  During this research, I invariably make a number of odd unexpected discoveries.  For example, it's not uncommon for the movie miniatures used in SPFX shoots to be quite different from the full-sized mock-ups used for shooting with actors.  Then you start to ask yourself, "which one is canon?"     

I included the note about the "optional side hatch" because this is the hatch that Luke walks through on Endor, when they are bringing him to meet Vader in Return of the Jedi.  So that door is clearly present on some models of the AT-AT, but we don't see a corresponding door (at that location) on any of the walkers in Empire Strikes Back.  There are a number of panels that look like they "might be doors," but they aren't really big enough to be a door for a full-sized man, and they aren't in the same location as the one that Luke walks through.  So I'm concluding that this door is either an optional feature that appears on some models or maybe it was an upgrade that appears on later models.

Another interesting point:  The legs on the original models of the AT-AT seem to have been put together with a bunch of relatively conventional screws and other fasteners.  So as I was building it, (and trying to be as accurate as possible) I included these details.  Of course they would be gigantic screws in actual full-scale.  It's hard to believe that the Empire actually builds its monstrous high-tech war machines with giant screws, (and giant screwdrivers); so I guess we have to assume that these details just "look like" screws, but are actually some much more technically-advanced feature, and that any similarity to screws is just "coincidental."          

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tophxomi [2020-04-19 06:01:38 +0000 UTC]

I've always loved the AT-AT.

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