View Full Version : Scale of MPC/AMT/ERTL AT-AT?


jamesh1083
04-18-2005, 05:46 PM
Hello, I'm looking for some info on the scale of the MPC/AMT/ERTL AT-AT. I've just built the re-release version and wanted to put it into a diorama but I can't find good data on the scale of the model. Starship Modeler lists it as 1/Unknown. Watching the movie, it looks like Luke stands about as tall as the lower "thick" section of the walker's "foot." HO scale figures seem too large. N scale figures seem closer in size. What's the consensus?

By the way, how about the scale of the snow speeders in the Battle of Hoth action scene? They seem a little small to scale. Any opinions on that as well? Thanks!

Leet
04-18-2005, 06:42 PM
Try this (http://www.theforce.net/swtc/walkers.html#atat) site. It has a discussion on the discrepancy between the stated size in the literature and the visible size in the movie. Suffice it to say, it's larger than what the books say.

Y3a
04-19-2005, 11:11 AM
Maybe the AT-AT is "Z" scale at 1/220 ???

JamesDFarrow
04-19-2005, 12:07 PM
As far as I could find out it is approximately 1/100th scale.

So HO scale (1/87th) would be the closest.

James :)

jamesh1083
04-19-2005, 12:39 PM
Thanks everyone! The site Leet referenced is awesome and shows the same still frames I referenced watching episode V on an HD widescreen. Somewhere between HO and N scale would probably look good. BTW, the AT-AT foot is roughly the same size as the Battle of Hoth model snow speeder, which does make the speeder seem a little small, when picturing a person inside of it and then standing beside the foot of the AT-AT.