Revell AT-AT easy kit and Snowspeeder pocket kit

[blakeh1]

The scale on these works out pretty close to 1/72 (or at least close enough for me)

I added the missing armor plate to the head as well as fixing/adding some other details. I cut the pins off the bottom guns and moved them forward to stick out more. The side guns I replaced the main gun barrels since they seemed to thick as well as tried to carve out some plastic that was there as filler to prevent undercuts on a single molded piece. I also replaced all the raised panels with scribed ones (except for the one right above the front window. I was worried about screwing that one up.



The only modification to the out of the box speeder was cutting out the air flap and scratch building the detail inside of the box so I could pose it in it's extended position. In fact I didn't even paint it ( other than repainting the cockpit and figures). Everything else is the stock paint job whihc I dull coated over a few times to make it look less plastic like and then scratched some of the pre-paint and added some oil washes and pastels to make get it more weathered looking



I'm not totally done with the AT-AT, but I put a quick base coat and some prelimnary weathering. I think I am going to go back and add some more surface detail, particulary for the legs before I finish the painting.












and a 1/72 Probot from RetroSF

 

[Junkie]

Nice. You know that head doesn't look so bad after all. I'm sure you've read all the critics of it. Adding that side plating made a big difference as did the scribing. Great job.

The Speeder. Which kit is that exactly? Is it also 1/72?

I have the Revell AT-AT and a Fantastic Plastic Speeder. Hopefully will get around to building them someday.

 

[Igard]

You've got some great models in your collection, blakeh1. This is a nice looking AT-AT. Great job with those guns and the mods to the head. Man, this looks good.

Nice work on the speeder.

And that prob-droid is awesome!

 

[blakeh1]

Nice. You know that head doesn't look so bad after all. I'm sure you've read all the critics of it. Adding that side plating made a big difference as did the scribing. Great job.

The Speeder. Which kit is that exactly? Is it also 1/72?

I have the Revell AT-AT and a Fantastic Plastic Speeder. Hopefully will get around to building them someday.

It's the Revell Pocket Kit version (not the Easy Kit that one is around 1/48 or even larger I believe). They aren't so easy to find at a decent price. In most cases you'll have to resort to eBay since they are from Revell of Germany and were never released in the US. If you do look for one, make sure the description has Pocket or "mini" in it otherwise you might get the larger Easy Kit version. You can also tell by the packaging, it comes in box inside a foil packet like this
http://www.amazon.com/Revell-EasyKit-Pocket-Snowspeeder-Model/dp/B0013FCH6G/ref=sr_1_2?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1330376305&sr=1-2

You can also tell by dimensions if people list it

The pocket kit is listed as
6.7 x 5.7 x 1.4 inches

The regular Easy Kit is 20 x 14 x 17.5 inches

Unfortunately some people price it most likely based on prices they have seen the larger easy kit go for

like this one...
http://www.amazon.com/Revell-EasyKit-Pocket-Snowspeeder-Model/dp/B0013FCH6G

It's more expensive than the this larger easy kit version
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Snowspeeder-Model-Kit/dp/B001K5XX08/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1330376305&sr=1-1

go figure

The pocket kit really is a very nice little kit, although you'll probably want to redo the cockpit, That is one area lacking

 

[Junkie]

Cool. Even at $22 it's still less than a resin one. I'm sure I paid close to, if not more than $40 for the fantastic plastic 1.72 speeder. Nuts.

 

[Jamaicanmodels69]

WOw that looks excellent great!!!!!
I just picked up the revell Tie it's fantastic
was blown away when opening the box!

Thanks for the break down in price and scales
much appreciated!!

 

[ModelMakerMike]

Yeah!
Awesome stuff!
I am getting back into the Star Wars mood.
And have been keenly interested in what Revell has been doing with the models. I have to admit when I saw them in the stores, they looked really cheap (based on the boxes), and I wonderedd if they were just re-releasing the old MPC/AMT/ERTL kits.
However, what I have seen on the forums, they seem to be a lot better than what I have thought?
Has anyone built any of the Revell doird kits? Such as the Tr-fighter, or the Tank?

 

[blakeh1]

They are definitely new tools and not just re-releases of the ERTL/AMT/MPC kits. Most of them are very good. The one drawback on most of the kits though is soft or missing details and a lack of consistency in scale across releases.

But then again I personally kind of enjoy scratch building detail for them and in a weird way have more fun building those then I do with Fine Molds kits since with the Fine Molds stuff I tend to do nothing more then assemble them.

The scale thing is the biggest drawback for me. I wish they really would stick to something other than fit the box scale

 

[ModelMakerMike]

I agree with both of your points.
It would be awesome if they kept them all in the same scale, or at least a couple scales depending on the sizes of the vehicles or subjects.
AND, I too get more excited with kits, that are maybe not of the highest caliber that let's you do more in the way of building/painting to make it more than what it was when you bought it. The best examples I can think of right now, were the Toy-Biz super hero models that were released in the early to mid 90s. They weren't remarkable, and had a lot of faults, but allowed more time to be put into building, puttying, sanding, painting.
I have some of them that I entered into last years Spring contest.

http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forum/index.php/topic,3236.0.html

http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forum/index.php/topic,3224.0.html

http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forum/index.php/topic,3238.0.html

http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forum/index.php/topic,3237.0.html

 

[blakeh1]

I have some of them that I entered into last years Spring contest.

http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forum/index.php/topic,3236.0.html

http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forum/index.php/topic,3224.0.html

http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forum/index.php/topic,3238.0.html

http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forum/index.php/topic,3237.0.html

Nice work! And now I know where your Avatar comes from

 

[ModelMakerMike]

Thank you, Blake

 

[Quaralane]

Those look pretty good.
Been thinking about the AT-At almost since it came out