Bandai 1/144 Star Wars AT-AT

From Apollo and Soyuz, to Gerry Anderson, Irwin Allen, Star Wars and Trek to Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica and those strange, doe-eyed Japanese school girls...to any model kits you can think of, that only exists in imagination.
Post Reply
User avatar
iggie
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 23360
Joined: July 31st, 2013, 11:04 am
Location: North Somercotes, Lincolnshire
Contact:

Bandai 1/144 Star Wars AT-AT

Post by iggie »

Following seeing the new Star Wars film, I was inspired to build one of the excellent Bandai Star Wars kits. It was a choice between an AT-AT and the Millennium Falcon, but the AT-AT won :grin:
As ever with Bandai, the kit is excellently detailed and engineered and the fit is sublime! It is billed as a snap-together kit, and could indeed be built wholly without glue if desired although some of the joints may come apart easily without a little (carefully!) applied glue.
I painted it overall in Humbrol Steel Grey acrylic, with Gunmetal accents and detail, and then used a variety of Flory washes to add some streaking and general grime. It still needs a matt varnish but it's too cold and damp to go out to the garage and spray it at present :roll:

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

And posing with a Bandai 'palm-size' Snowspeeder:

Image

Image
Best wishes

Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
User avatar
JamesPerrin
Looks like his avatar
Posts: 13619
Joined: April 5th, 2011, 8:09 pm
Location: W. Yorkshire
Contact:

Re: Bandai 1/144 Star Wars AT-AT

Post by JamesPerrin »

Nice photos they make it appear to be much larger than it is
Classic British Kits SIG Leader Better to fettle than to fill
(2024 A:B 5:1) (2023 13:8:7) (2022 21:11) (2021 15:8) (2020 8:4:4)
ShaunW
NOT the sheep
Posts: 26118
Joined: November 26th, 2011, 6:11 pm
Location: Pontefract West Yorkshire

Re: Bandai 1/144 Star Wars AT-AT

Post by ShaunW »

Wow, that looks great, Iggie. Bandai certainly make some excellent looking kits of these Star Wars types.
Doing - Tamiya 1/35th Universal Carrier.

Work is the curse of the modelling classes!
IPMS#12300
User avatar
59North
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 1323
Joined: January 9th, 2016, 2:55 pm
Location: Canada

Re: Bandai 1/144 Star Wars AT-AT

Post by 59North »

A fine model, Iggie. I'm sure the studios will wish to use it when filming the next episode; it looks good enough for that job. Nicely photographed.
User avatar
iggie
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 23360
Joined: July 31st, 2013, 11:04 am
Location: North Somercotes, Lincolnshire
Contact:

Re: Bandai 1/144 Star Wars AT-AT

Post by iggie »

Thanks James, Shaun & 59'
It's a really enjoyable kit to build and remarkably straightforward. With some basic weathering it really looks the part very easily!
Best wishes

Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
Post Reply

Return to “Real Space, Sci-Fi and What-iffery”