MrChef showed some interest in the stop motion AT-AT replica I showed on another thread and I wanted to see more so here some pics and infos...
I've been replicating several miniatures made for the original Star Wars trilogy. Those are studio scale replica this means they are built the same size of the filming miniatures made for the movies, with the same details (greeblies, which are mainly parts from model kits : tanks, planes, battleships, cars etc) and if possible, built the same way.
Here's an example of a TIE Fighter replica, for the movies they made a "master" so they can mold and cast several copies out of it so that's the way I went, I made a master then cast and mold it
. Some details may be familiar to you, like the Sherman suspension unit 
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). I was planing the whole model (250 cm long !) but only built that so far, it's already 120cm long by 120cm wide. Thousand of kitparts to identified, ton of kits to buy, sometimes just to use ONE part from it 
. I ended up buying about 800 kits released between 1956 and 1979. Mainly Tamiya kits, but also Airfix, Revell, Aurora, Nichimo, Hasegawa and a lot more... every detail is exactly the same detail than the one used on the original filming miniature :
