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AT-AT cutaway (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

from the Star Wars Incredible Cross Sections book. The original (Millenium Falcon in the cover) or this updated version.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of all those cut aways my dad had posted up in his shot of medieval castles and ships. They always had one guy pooping somewhere. Instinctively looked for the guy pooping in this one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Stephen Biesty?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Hell yeah. I remember we had these books when we were kids. I loved to just look and see the inner workings of the machines and vehicles used in Star Wars.

I think we had three of them, one or two for the prequels, and one or two for the originals, but I don't remember for sure.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Incredibly inefficient design

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

But very cool!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

General Veers would like a word.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

f in chat for Davin Felth.

[–] FatAdama 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember this page from a book I had growing up. What’s neat is the UCS Lego set of this has the blue seats. I forgot about this cutaway so I was wondering why they chose blue. Now it makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Playing the pen and paper rpg in the 90s, we had a lot of those books. Weaponry, vehicles etc, they were soooo good

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

The scale seems off. I remember these things being much larger compared to the height of a human.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anybody got a version of this with some more pixels?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sorry I know the resolution for the text isn’t great. If this was a book in my collection I’d had take a few close up shots. But the art was too good not to share.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The toe actuators seem overbuilt and overcomplicated

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Check out all the other parts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How exactly would the troopers be deployed on the battlefield?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Glad to see I'm not the only person who thought of the image

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They rappel down.
Please don't ask how they get the speeder bikes out of the garage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That depends. In games, usually the Troops rappel down.

When it comes to the speeders, they either fly out and glide down or the AT-AT might be capable of "sitting down" like a horse/camel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Forgot to mention it walks like a goofy camel

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Where does the woodoo hide go?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It’s donated to the Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this is awesome.

Anyone know the source? Are there different editions/prints to worry about if one were to go looking for the book(s) themselves?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s from the Star Wars Incredible Cross Sections book. The original (Millenium Falcon in the cover) or this updated version.

I probably should have put that in the thread opening. I am realizing I’m quite bad at this internet threading.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Theres a dedicated fan called Adywan whose made his own special edition version of the trilogy tastefully adding more effects.

Here's a clip from his version of the Hoth battle where he incorporates the side panel revealing troops inside. (Yes I know the aspect ratio is wrong, not my clip. 😁)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

What about all the skinny maintenance sections you crawl through in fallen order?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had the book with this illustration as a kid! It was one of my favorites along with the Death Star.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes the cutaway style is great. I wish I had the full book because I know it has tons of different entries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's too heavy for repulsor lifts? What do the spaceships use then? Why don't at-ats use that technology then?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Whenever you notice something like that, a space wizard did it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Or really shitty space engineers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The jedi had nothing to do with this

[–] the_artic_one 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"A powerful reactor provides the raw energy to move this weighty battle machine"

7 trillion moving parts are suddenly the better solution?

How do they move these things from planet to planet?