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Revell snap-tite AT-AT Walker model kit #1859

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Clonehead:
Tamer, this one is for you..........
  Today, I'm reviewing the newly tooled Revell snap-tite ATAT walker model kit.
This kit is predecorated and snap-toghther so no real painting or gluing is required.
This kit contains 65 pieces and after assembly, measures 14 7/8 inches long and 12 1/2 inches tall and features movable legs, head, and laser cannons.
Upon opening the box, we have 6 bags, 4 of which contain sprue runners of parts and 2 of which contain 2 bigger loose parts each.
The 8 page set of instructions are fairly simple to follow and breaks assembly down to 9 steps. A couple of minor discrepancy's in the instructions are to be noted both occurring in step 6 of the assembly. In sub step A, leg part # 24a is misslabled on the actual part sprue as part #4A. In sub step B rotational leg peg #25a is used a second time where the part # should be listed as #25B. parts #25a-d are identical anyway so it shouldn't matter.
  There were several of the bigger parts like the sides and top and bottom pieces of the walker's body that were individually bagged but not connected to any sprue runners and therefore, not labeled with the numbers that are used for them in the instructions but they are easy to identify by the instruction diagrams.

I found not one bit of flash on these parts but found a few sinkholes towards the bottom of the D-shaped foot to leg slider-hinge pieces.

Clonehead:
Fit of the parts is fairly tight and only one part, one of the side slider posts going from a foot to a lower leg didn't fit tight enough to stay where it penetrates the leg so I glued it at the top. Only the bottom of this part needs to move as you move the leg, anyway. Assembly was fairly easy and only took 1.5 hrs.
  I was slightly disappointed in that while the side guns are movable, they are linked together through the walker's head and can't be posed individually. The chin guns are perminantilly mounted in place and have no reciprocating action what so ever. More of a bummer, there. The head swings from side to side and rotates clockwise and counter clockwise but has no up and down posabilaty.
 The 3 bump and post cam leg joints in each leg could have been better engineered for easier posability but with all of those joints and the d-slider pivot joint on the feet, this is easily the most poseble walker we have seen, thus far!
  I do believe that a decent stop-motion animation of this walker is possible.

Clonehead:
On a whim, I decided to pose this completed model next to the Star Wars miniatures version of the atat for comparison as they are similar in size. I was astonished to find so many differences as far as scale of these two walkers.
  While the legs on the Miniatures walker are thicker than the ones on the kit, the feet are smaller and the legs are the same length. The body and the head on the miniatures walker are both wider and taller and while greatly detailed obviously scaled wrong for the legs and foot size. The model walker, to me is appropriately scaled as far as feet,legs, body, and head. I have no idea why the Miniatures walker was made with these discrepancys.

Clonehead:
Comparison shots of the two walkers and with a titanium snowspeeder which is too small.
No scale is listed for this kit but I would have to guess in between 1 /72nd scale and HO/ 1/76th scale.
It's a killer kit, for sure, and will look great on display or in a dio. You ought to pick this one up, Tamer. Building it could satisfy that nagging need you must have to open something Star Wars, and as I said, this is the largest version of an appropriately scaled walker that is out there.

Clonehead:
I took these shots outside of the Walker model, today. I think this thing could be made to climb a set of stairs with it's great posibility.

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