Adam Savage's One Day Builds: AT-AT Walker Garage Kit!

Adam assembles the most beautiful garage kit he has ever seen: a studio scale AT-AT Walker inspired by the stop-motion miniature used for The Empire Strikes Back. The resin castings are impeccable given the complexity of the parts and the molds required to make them, and the whole kit is an absolute delight to put together. Adam of course adds his own customizations, and has a few mods in mind for future builds to fulfill its destiny as a tabletop diorama!

Shot by Adam Savage and edited by Josh Self
Music by Jinglepunks

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[mustang_orbit]

A walk-through of the cave with Mark Hamill and Adam would be interesting to see.

[CarboniteDreamer]

my dream is to make an AT-AT case to house my PC. I went to see Empire in theaters it blew my little mind at the time.

[rolandcox]

You do things in such of a get done manner. I always spend way to much time on doing simple stuff, trying to over do it. You're helping me out Adam, I appreciate it!

[mattiegough]

I live near Kendal in Cumbria, UK. and every time Adam does his Scottish accent he keeps slipping into Cumbrian. Im listening with headphones whilst I'm tinkering and it honestly is blagging my head!

[Gundumb_guy]

I actually can’t wait for the painting and weathering of this thing!!

[chrissteward]

@ around 24:00, the cylindrical cutouts in the brackets that hold on the back piece are intended for magnets to allow you to hold the back plate on without fixing it permanently so you could access the inside of the model if you where doing lighting, etc. That is my guess

[martinjrgensen]

I have never seen resin casting this good. This is unreal

[sethm]

You should pose wire, mysteriously suspended on its own in a couple loops around the legs - with the speeder angled, racing around it - just before the legs get all tripped-up. It would be so dynamic.

[berendharmsen]

For me, the question of the best special effects sequence was always a toss-up between the AT-AT attack on Hoth and the sequence of the Falcon being chased through the asteroid field. It's telling that both of these scenes are from the same movie.

My favourite shot from the Return of the Jedi is the brief sequence of Darth Vader's shuttle landing on Endor, ending with the AT-AT parking next to the landing platform. Starting with the Death Star, panning down to the surface of the moon, shuttle folding its wings gracefully, AT-AT walking up - the whole thing is just poetry.

[ChrisEllorris]

The holes in all those registration pieces looked like they would fit magnets quite well!

[SkyrayModels]

Love that kit Adam, looking forward to how you go about weathering it. Those pinned feet flaps could do with a smidge of pva glue to stop them flopping around so much, and they could be posed to give a more natural effect, especially on the raised foot.

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[hobocat]

Next time you put together two parts you want to hide the connection points with out glueing or screwing. You should look into neodymium magnets. You can get them awful thin and hold like crazy.
This is as long as the material is strong enough for allowing any stress the magnetic connections put on the structure.
They don’t have to be big to do a large job. Love your channel. Great videos and lots and lots of good wisdom on all sort of subjects. Engineering, fabricating, life, extra.
Keep up being you. Thank and have a blessed and wonderful day. Your awesome!

[johnlanger]

Empire Strikes Back is just the best movie there was. The special effects just pushed it to the top and kept pushing.

[ErichSchulz]

The model is just unreal, I can't wait to see you paint and weather it.

[jeffreyknutson]

I love watching you work on projects that you love to your core! I love it! And Star Wars to boot! Nothing but smiles here!

[dedenish]

Could you use heat-set inserts instead of tapping the resin? It would give a stronger mechanical connection while also allowing for multiple assembling/disassembling with out possibly messing the soft threads up.

[maeve]

I'm glad I'm not the only person who talks to themselves, whether a camera is on...or not. Plus, I do sing to my dog...

[tophermav]

In my humble opinion, the "toes" should have a little more resistance for easier and more accurate posing....
Beautiful kit, and Adam, you do an amazing job, yet again, with assembly and narration.
Can't wait to see you paint it.
Adam Savage, I know you can't tell us who made it but could you at least tell what that "spendy" cost to us would be?

[TheShornak]

YES, YES, ABSOLUTELY do a Y-Wing build. That beautiful model never got the attention it deserved.