AT-ST - from paper card to costume

**DJStratoArt** · #1 10-14-2014, 09:04 PM

Here's a project I'm currently working on. I'm using Shunichi Makino's excellent AT-ST card plans from here: AT-ST and then scaling them up to a size that will fit my 9 year old. And me

Of course I need to make a few of my own special modifications to the card model to fit a person.

You can see my whole album here: AT-ST Costume

**Revell-Fan** · #2 10-15-2014, 12:04 AM

Hehehe! That's cool! Are you attempting to join the feet of the model and your kid's so that it really walks?

**DJStratoArt** · #3 10-15-2014, 07:12 PM

yeppers! I'll be working on the legs tomorrow. Just waiting on more cardboard.

**Rocky** · #4 10-15-2014, 11:13 PM

If some thing like that comes to my door Halloween, it gets ALL the candy!

Rocky

**DJStratoArt** · #5 10-15-2014, 11:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rocky

If some thing like that comes to my door Halloween, it gets ALL the candy!

Rocky

HAHA! Thanks! I just hope they can walk in the thing! But it's going to be used much after Halloween, I think my boys want to have some kind of Star Wars battle in the back yard. I guess I need to make a turret. LOL!

RunwayOneSixRight · #6 10-15-2014, 11:26 PM

Strong the force is with this tread.

-RunwayOneSixRight (Matthew)

**DJStratoArt** · #7 10-23-2014, 09:26 PM

Here is my continued work on the large AT-ST walker costume for my kids. I've been constructing one of the legs. Since my kids are short for the thing, I have to make some modifications. This whole costume is a scaled up version of a paper card model found here: AT-ST

RunwayOneSixRight · #8 10-23-2014, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rocky

If some thing like that comes to my door Halloween, it gets ALL the candy!

Rocky

I AGREE!

-RunwayOneSixRight (Matthew)

**Rocky** · #9 10-26-2014, 12:52 AM

I know you have already been thinking of how to attach the legs to the kids, when an idea struck me.
So I hope you don't mine if I put it out there for you because I know how kids play, and get in trouble, and fall.......(looks like their arms may not be a lot of help, so they would have to do some fancy foot work if they lost their balance.)
Anyway; the idea is to use dog or cat safety collars. The ones that come unbuckled if the animal gets it's collar caught on some thing! They would be durable enough to strap around a shoe and be walked on, and come apart automatically freeing the leg if stressed by too quick of a movement.
Cat collars are cheaper and come apart more easily, but are small.
Just thought it might save the costume, I mean kids...of course, save the kids.

Rocky

**DJStratoArt** · #10 10-30-2014, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rocky

I know you have already been thinking of how to attach the legs to the kids, when an idea struck me.
So I hope you don't mine if I put it out there for you because I know how kids play, and get in trouble, and fall.......(looks like their arms may not be a lot of help, so they would have to do some fancy foot work if they lost their balance.)
Anyway; the idea is to use dog or cat safety collars. The ones that come unbuckled if the animal gets it's collar caught on some thing! They would be durable enough to strap around a shoe and be walked on, and come apart automatically freeing the leg if stressed by too quick of a movement.
Cat collars are cheaper and come apart more easily, but are small.
Just thought it might save the costume, I mean kids...of course, save the kids.

Rocky

That's a good idea. However, this is kind of a low mobility costume. They aren't walking the streets with it but rather this is for a local costume party and at most they'd be in a fenced yard with grass with a lot of us parents nearby. But haha, that's funny about "save the costume, I mean kids...of course, save the kids." yeah totally. I think my boys want to use it as a fort after Halloween, but I have to put some stipulations and limitations on that so that it doesn't get utterly destroyed. So much work went into it. I want them to have fun with it, totally, but I'd also like to see if it can stay intact for a few years.

UPDATE!

Update! Almost done with the walker. I put an MFD (Multi-functional display) in the cockpit which is actually the kids Android Tab 2 tablet they play their games on. It's camera looks out the viewport and they can see quite well that way. Whoever is in it can actually see out better more so than through the two "eye" windows up front. Of course they can peek up through the hatch as well. I just have to paint and detail the torso and legs tonight. Cutting it close! It has to be done tonight all the way. My youngest son is a bit too small for the whole walker, but he can wear the head by itself, so he still gets to enjoy it. Keep in mind that I had to reduce the size of the walker legs from the original plans considerably so that my kids could actually wear it. But if I or my wife wears it, the legs actually stretch out nicely and it would look closer to the real thing with an adult. For kids, it's more in "crouching" mode.