Revell Star Wars AT-RT

Modeling Subjects Science Fiction
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I bought this kit before Christmas for a relative, hoping it might spark an interest in modeling. After Christmas the kit was unfinished as he didn’t seem to have the expertise to build it. I took it home and discovered how difficult this kit would be for a beginner. I had to use a small wooden mallet to hammer together the joints of the legs. The instructions were certainly not crystal either.

I have to wonder why Revell makes snap-tite kits geared towards kids when it takes a more experienced modeler to build them?

The kit is finished now, and it looks pretty good and stands on its own legs without problem. But why produce a pre-painted snap-tighter that is over the head of a younger modeler when they could produce a made-for-cement kit that you paint and weather yourself, and can be made far more realistic-looking?

~Dave

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I had a similar problem building a snap-tite Tiger I with my nephew.There is no way a kid was gonna get the turret together without assistance.You almost needed three hands.

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actuially, I found the At-Rt to be quite simple. I say that even having built and glued it without putting in the pegs for the leg joints, then having to mod them to slide in afterward. you just need to cut some things, thats all. I cut the torso from the turret, as the main one

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I found the model simple myself, but an 8-year-old Star Wars fanatic might be really disapointed in a kit that was too hard[:(]

I like the idea of putting the pegs in later though.[;)]

~Dave