[MOC] simplified full crouching AT-RT Another try May.27.2019

[JoeChu1980]

Mar.28.2019 updated rev13 Build instruction is made as HERE

May.27.2019 updated

Still be inspired by other fans' MOC, and kept on optimizing my design, the latest rev14 conception as below.

With piece parts in hands so far, some prototype were built to compare with last one (rev13), given up full studless, make it more compact.

Your comment are appreciated, and please feel free to let me know which one is your prefer.

And some more pic of this rev14, to show the pose it could be.

As usual, previous rev were edited as blow folders

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Jan.11.2019 updated

Dear friends, I confessed, after my last MOC revision, actually I still not satisfied with the shape, especial the legs. During the conversation with @Smitt500 and @Reaper, I realized how I lost the spirit of it, and why not give up the ball-joint and combine / ref. brickfanatics’ good idea? Here’s my MOC beyond the final.

And I do enjoy the way how brickfanatics’ design of MF sitting on it, does look great, thus I went further :) I definitely will apply it on more bestride MOC, e.g. 74-Z speeder.

The most surprised me is, even without ball-joint, benefit by legs multi-rotation directions, it could got one-leg-self-balance to represent RUNNING condition!

Also full-crouching-able, even better, the backrest could put down and fix in to my previous MOC LAAT/i very well.

 

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Dec.03.2018 updated

The latest MOC design piece parts arrived, and during my enjoying the INFERNO SQUAD, the scene of Iden riding AT-RT does inspired me to optimize the rear view of my MOC.

Here I took a ref. on it

One squad is my target, and so be it.

Now, we RIDE!

 

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Nov.30.2018 updated

Dear friends, here's my 4th modification of this AT-RT, and will take it as finial. To combine and optimize previous designs, and keep total width with 5.5 bricks.

Had a fun with Master Windu, who led the charging in TCW S01E21.

And only one thing I may further try, is to make some color change ref. the show... piece parts are on the way now.

 

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Oct.23.2018 updated

Dear friends, here's my 3rd trial of this AT-RT, try to catch the shape better and build it firm. (still, previous version was folded below)

Now the driver was set as sitting, and try pivot pins structure for the legs. and tried color scheme of dark grey leader.

expanded toward squad.

further more, to compare the crouching condition vs last build (left one), it will show less space occupied.

with this crouching condition, loading into my MOC of LAAT/i is a fun couple.

Once again, hope you enjoy and your You comment / advice are appreciated.

 

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Oct.11.2018 updated

Dear friends, since last revision of my AT-RT MOC, half year past and I was still working on polish the design. Now here's my V2 release. And former one could be review in spoiler below.

 

Still, full crouching function is the target, it will be stored in my LAAT/i and further AT-TE.

 

And to represent the running condition, one-leg balance is the other character I tried.

You comment and advice are appreciated, for my better polishing of the design, e.g. like @DrMuttonchops suggested, "... to maybe use a slightly longer bar for an antenna?" now I tried with 9322 fishing rod, and it does look better.

 

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Dear All, this's my 2nd topic on EuroBricks, and gonna try GIF on image hosting site.

5/16/2018 update: Got note from my AFOL friend, previous download link involved most Chinese interface, and google drive link was recommended, added to below. And shared on Rebrickable site as well.

5/15/2018 updated: Thanks for your comment, I will build my AT-RT with rev06 (slight modified) and share the the build instruction as below download link:

https://pan.baidu.com/s/1EtHJ5wIEdcMj8f4SiyWQ7g

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1upGceikhZmr07Tylx8_WdBuRjNI3KPZa/view?usp=sharing

And for rev05 "sitting mode", also share my instruction for your interesting, actually, you are welcome to build both of them, and compare. Your feedback and further improvement are appreciated.

https://pan.baidu.com/s/1BQIaaCRIyi1ZfhnuSZPjkA

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WjrqiCHOTZfn_MFCGeJTusQvzdm5xuVx/view?usp=sharing

 

During I MOC of republic gunship, I decided to deliver AT-RT by it, just like [the clone wars] S04E07 showed. Referred AT-RT MOCs on EB, most of them are beautiful and capture the features very well, but few could crouch completely, thus, I designed a simplified one, for your enjoy.

Benefit by the application of ball connection, more pose it could be, and even with only one leg running situation, it can find self-balance.

The only thing confused me is, I drafted 2 variation as following, would like to learn your comments, which one is better fit? I will collect your feedback, and finally publish the build instruction here accordingly.

The 1st variation designed driver "sitting" (Rex riding one), compare to DK book, pretty matching, but not as solid as next variation;

The 2nd variation designed driver "standing" (Cody riding one), a little bit looks like "high sitting" in DK book, and due to more close, so more solid it is.

Finally, your comment are appreciated, will decide this MOC by your support.

* another color blendent was designed for Cody's 212 battalion

 

Edited May 28, 2019 by JoeChu1980
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[Smitty500]

Neat little build! I like the use of mini ball joints and animal feet. It does truly "low crouch"  I don't know how long those hinge plates will last though. they seem to use their stability over time. 

[deraven]

Great design!  I agree with Smitty500 on the hinge plate longevity, but that can't really be helped and I don't see other good options that will work at this properly-scaled size.  Nice posing in your photos, too.  Thanks for sharing!

[koalayummies]

! A weapon to surpass metal gea... oh wait this is Star Wars

Nice little build and very entertaining GIF. Its fun to make hydraulic noises to it; psssh pfft psssh pffft.

[Fuppylodders]

I really like it! Its just the right size, and crouches just as intended, but looks good crouched too!  

Id say to go with the sitting one personally. But that's from a lack of playing but displaying perspective. If it was to be played with, I'd go with the standing. It still looks good enough with minifig standing.

Excellent and fun little design! Id say the standing one should be included if the at-te ever gets released. It'd be a neat little addition! 

[DrMuttonchops]

Absolutely fantastic, man! Certainly my favorite rendition I've seen, and one of the most poseable. I'm with Fuppylodders on the sitting model, but really both are great! The only criticism I can come up with is to maybe use a slightly longer bar for an antenna? Other than that, I love it. :)

[Forresto]

Could you post a picture of one dissaembed for recreaction? This is utterly ingenious. Best AT RT MOC ive ever seen.

[JoeChu1980]

  On 5/14/2018 at 6:27 PM, Smitty500 said:

...I don't know how long those hinge plates will last though. they seem to use their stability over time. 

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Thanks for your comment, it made me decided to go with rev06, a little bit less weight need hinge plate to support. And sure, to use brand new 73983 hinge plate is recommended, I will also prepare some more couple of 73983 for spare parts, replace once it got loose.

 

  On 5/14/2018 at 11:25 PM, Fuppylodders said:

...Id say to go with the sitting one personally....

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for easier support and solid connection, I finally go with rev06, but also share the rev05 "sitting mode" building method for your fun, in top main post .

 

  On 5/15/2018 at 1:23 AM, DrMuttonchops said:

Absolutely fantastic, man! Certainly my favorite rendition I've seen, and one of the most poseable. I'm with Fuppylodders on the sitting model, but really both are great! The only criticism I can come up with is to maybe use a slightly longer bar for an antenna? Other than that, I love it. :)

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Thanks  for your suggestion, I'm thinking about PN 2569 antenna, but no part in hand, the instruction download link was shared above, you are welcome to build and share your improvement.

 

  On 5/15/2018 at 5:28 AM, Forresto said:

Could you post a picture of one dissaembed for recreaction?

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beyond a pic, I would like to share build instruction, you are welcome to re-create.

Edited May 15, 2018 by JoeChu1980

[JoeChu1980]

  On 5/15/2018 at 1:23 AM, DrMuttonchops said:

...to maybe use a slightly longer bar for an antenna?

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Dear friend, just updated a new revision on the top post, hope you enjoy it.

[DrMuttonchops]

  On 10/11/2018 at 7:32 AM, JoeChu1980 said:

Dear friend, just updated a new revision on the top post, hope you enjoy it.

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Looks fantastic, the fishing rod looks perfect to me! The armor shaping in the front is a huge improvement as well, it looks damn close to the cross-section! Totally amazing. 

[Cylo]

Damn it looks cool, although the legs do look a bit plain, but I'm not sure if youu can do anything about it.

[ChiefPie]

Great design!

[JoeChu1980]

  On 10/12/2018 at 5:20 AM, JarJarBonks said:

Damn it looks cool, although the legs do look a bit plain, but I'm not sure if youu can do anything about it.

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what if some 2412 radiator grille be fixed at the legs' outside?

  On 10/12/2018 at 6:00 AM, ChiefPie said:

Great design!

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Thanks for your compliment

[Cylo]

  On 10/15/2018 at 7:55 AM, JoeChu1980 said:

what if some 2412 radiator grille be fixed at the legs' outside?

Thanks for your compliment

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Grills would look nice, have you tried using the dish pieces for the leg joints?

[JoeChu1980]

  On 10/15/2018 at 9:44 PM, JarJarBonks said:

Grills would look nice, have you tried using the dish pieces for the leg joints?

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not yet, do you have any suggest part number of the dish pieces? I suspect you may refer such like PN 6047 and 7048, aren't you? if so, I tried similar method with 30554 linking connection, but the limitation is the folding angle, hardly to make fully crouching. Here's my early version of this MOC

Actually, I do enjoy the AT-RT design from @Smitty500 and @Lars MOC,  good shape, only thing confused me is to get more moveable and crouching.

 

 

Edited October 16, 2018 by JoeChu1980

[Cylo]

  On 10/16/2018 at 4:17 AM, JoeChu1980 said:

not yet, do you have any suggest part number of the dish pieces? I suspect you may refer such like PN 6047 and 7048, aren't you? if so, I tried similar method with 30554 linking connection, but the limitation is the folding angle, hardly to make fully crouching. Here's my early version of this MOC

Actually, I do enjoy the AT-RT design from @Smitty500 and @Lars MOC,  good shape, only thing confused me is to get more moveable and crouching.

 

 

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You could use part 4740

[JoeChu1980]

  On 10/11/2018 at 10:32 AM, DrMuttonchops said:

Looks fantastic, the fishing rod looks perfect to me! The armor shaping in the front is a huge improvement as well, it looks damn close to the cross-section! Totally amazing. 

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Dear friend, I tried some more optimization on the front shape and leg structure, hope you enjoy.

[Cylo]

Its getting better by the second, love your lego watch! I really want a P1 Rex :0

[JoeChu1980]

  On 10/23/2018 at 8:58 AM, JarJarBonks said:

Its getting better by the second, love your lego watch! I really want a P1 Rex :0

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Thanks for your kindly comment, but don't know why, the pivot pins' structure was felt loose than hinge plate, though pivot pins could keep the pose as well.

[Voodoo713]

Looks fantastic! Looking forward to building instructions once your design is finalized!

[Cylo]

Looks great! Is there a way to make the front turret foldable though?

 

I would love to have instructions for this and your speeder bikes too!

[JoeChu1980]

  On 11/22/2018 at 9:15 PM, Reaper said:

Looks great! Is there a way to make the front turret foldable though?

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Thanks for your suggestion, I tried the folding gun design in my last MOC, and finally decide not to, just post it for you reference.

[Cylo]

  On 11/30/2018 at 4:20 AM, JoeChu1980 said:

Thanks for your suggestion, I tried the folding gun design in my last MOC, and finally decide not to, just post it for you reference.

 

 

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I agree, the previous version does look better.

[JoeChu1980]

  On 11/22/2018 at 10:17 AM, Voodoo713 said:

Looks fantastic! Looking forward to building instructions once your design is finalized!

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Thanks for your attention, so far the instruction still in process, will let you know later. But STAR WARS RPG just on, I may set that priority.

[Cylo]

This is looking great! I'm really looking forward to the final version!