Sandcrawler
This one has been a project I’ve wanted to tackle for ages. Once I saw episode 2 of The Mandalorian, it became a red hot necessity to make it. I considered getting the Disney Exclusive Sandcrawler (since making one from scratch was probably going to equal out to the same price when factoring in styrene, materials, and time), but I wanted something that had SCALE...and making my own was too much of a good time to pass up.
Styrene and Testors Model Cement are the main ingredients. I used small, very strong magnets to create embedded closures for the front entrance and side access panel, and attached recessed furniture casters to the bottom so it can roll.
The dimensions are 30” long by 16” tall and 11” wide.
It has two removable panels, a sliding door/hatch, an escape chute (where the main access is between the treads on the left hand side of the crawler), and of course the forward gate/draw bridge/main hold access. The cockpit has a hinged canopy as well.
There is also an articulated claw that slides back and forth from the forward hold access.
This is probably my favourite thing that I’ve built of this sort. It’s basically a giant box, but it’s the type of thing that Hasbro probably can’t build this day and age, and it came out a lot better abd sturdier than I expected. And the kids love it (even my ten year old is kind of excited about it!).
Raw, pre-painted styrene WIP shot:
Thanks for looking!
