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Image (1) -- Close-up view of the left exterior wall of the engine compartment showing exterior details. The large vent was construction entirely from stripe styrene with quarter-round styrene trim. The panel adjacent to the vent was constructed from sandwiched plain and scribed styrene sheets.
The engine compartment wall were constructed with .040 inch thick styrene sheet stock.
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Image (2) -- Close-up view of the interior of the engine compartment showing vent detail.
Note: I've been building vents like this for a long time and can relatively easily place glue the vanes in place without guides, however for the vent on the right side of this engine pod I will use my old method which uses guides.
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Image (3) -- Close-up of ball-turret opening being cut into front panel of driver pod. The front panel is 0.020 inch thick styrene sheet stock. It's much easier to cut the circles in 0.020 thick styrene than 0.040 inch thick styrene, and since the front panel is small and reinforcements can be hidden inside the pod the 0.020 will work fine for this section of the pod. The other walls will be cut from 0.040 inch thick stock..
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Image (4) -- The front panel is seen here completely cut out. The cut-outs laying next to the panel will be used elsewhere in the construction of the AT-PT model..
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Image (5) -- The first stage in construction of the ball -turret housing and the ball-turret. The ball-turret was constructed from a 1-1/4 inch diameter craft hardwood ball knob. The laser cannons in the ball-turret made from 1/8 inch diameter styrene tubing for the barrels and 3/16 inch diameter styrene tubing for the tips.
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Image (8) -- Close-up of the front exterior of the driver pod with turret in place and main view port framed in.
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Image (9) -- Close-up of the front interior of the driver pod with turret in place and main view port framed in (Front view). In this photo you can see the beginnings of the driver pod control panel.
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Image (10) -- Close-up of driver pod right exterior wall.
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Image (11) -- Close-up of driver pod left exterior wall.
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Image (14) -- Close-up of the painted and finished ball-turret.
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Image (15) -- Close-up look down the barrels of the ball-turret. As can be seen from this photo the bore of the barrels travels completely through the ball-turret. I'm toying with the idea of inserting transparent florescent acrylic rod into the barrels and placing LEDs at inside base for light effects.
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Image (16) -- Size comparison to Hasbro Stormtrooper figure.
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Image (17) -- Close-up view inside the driver pod. This photo shows the unfinished driver pod interior and what will become the control panel. At this stage in building the ball-turret is still removable to allow the driver pod to be painted without the need for masking. Also the engine compartment has not been attached to the driver pod yet and is being held in place by the miter-box seen under it. This is just to give an idea of what the completed pod unit will look like. There are still many details to add to both the driver pod and engine compartment at this point.
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Image (18) -- Overhead shot of the nearly completed driver pod.
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Image (19) -- Another overhead shot of the nearly completed driver pod.
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Image (20) -- Head-on shot of the nearly completed pod with driver seated inside. The green areas on the model is filler putty used to fill any unwanted seams.
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Image (21) -- Close-up view of the right exterior wall of the engine compartment showing exterior details.
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Image (22) -- Close-up view of the rear exterior wall of the engine compartment showing exterior details.