Thanks everyone, I am pretty happy with how it is coming along. I have it disassembled and cleaned for spraying, but the weather isn't cooperating.
WOW! This is a beauty! I am loving this build! The greeblie and plating work is just superb. This looks like something the Empire would have built. Can't wait to see a primer coat on this thing!
Thank you, that is high praise IMO because I look at your work for inspiration for bits, "greeblies" like you said, and good ways to use them. You have a brilliant grasp of the visual composition of ships, speeders, dios, etc, and I have looked at your vehicles often to get a good idea of balance of bits, bashing and styrene. Thanks!!!
Well, like i said, i can't spray, so i might as well keep building. I am calling this tank a Scout Crawler. It is based on a vehicle Ken Pruitt made that was in Tomart's like 15 years ago. The 2 issues that his work was shown in were my inspiration to get into Star wars customs back in the late 90's, I still have ideas looking at his work that I would love to make. I just found those issues again recently, the same week I got a junker AT-ST in an eBay lot. I had always wanted to do this, but in all these years, i never got around to it.
His was just an AT-ST head on the vintage HISS tracks, I took it a little further by using part of the lower body of the Hiss and building a tank "box" around it to hang some armor from. There is still a lot work to do, but it is off to a decent start. It looks a lot lot bulkier than Ken's vehicle, but I am hoping that will die down a bit once it is painted.
