HJR's Imperial AT-SE

[HJR-Holland]

Hey folks,

It looks like I'm on a building spree, but in fact I'm just finally posting pictures of MOCs I've been building in the last 1.5 years, thought you should know

Anyway, I'd like to present my most challenging build of 2011, my version of the Imperial AT-SE, or "All Terrain Shock Enforcer".

Q: The what ???

A: The AT-SE. The All Terrain Shock Enforcer. You know, it was in The Empire Strikes back! Observe:

It got almost as much screen time as Dash Rendar's Outrider in episode IV

The Imperial All Terrain Shock Enforcer, or AT-SE for short, was designed a couple of years ago by Ansel Hsiao (aka Fractelsponge), a 3D modeler artist who made many renderings of 'known' Star Wars vehicles, but also made a vehicle thought up by himself, this magnificent AT-SE:

He even went so far and made a couple of films of this awesome vehicle. One example is here

You can check more of his awesome work on fractalsponge.net. His AT-SE can be found on this website

Now I recently read a topic about FANON vehicles, and in all fairness, I'm not a big fan of them. I never ever create things I make up myself, but rather stick to the hundreds of vehicles the Star Wars videogames, comics and toys have to offer.

However, this AT-SE just screamed for a recreation in LEGO, and so I started in January of this year with building this:

And yes, that does indeed stand on it's two feet. And yes, that does mean it is defying gravity (just like that green witch, but then some more).

Let's get into the details of this vehicle:

The head of the AT-SE is a lot wider than that of an AT-AT, but I kept the 'interior' similar to the 4483 AT-AT, still my favorite of the ones' released by LEGO:

I tried to keep the under side close to the original as well:

The top gun is huge, and can fit a minifig (although not as comfortable as the AT-AT pilot in front).

You can see a Technic gear; the top gun can actually tilt vertically via a small lever at the rear of the top gun:

Detail of the small guns (there are three in total on this vehicle). In the top-left you'll see another lever. This one turns the top gun horizontally:

Some on the Internet thought that the inside of the AT-SE would contain speederbikes or stormtroopers, but the vehicle's creator stated that the inside only contains mechanisms for the walker and the top gun. so that's also what I build on the inside:

Now I would have loved to make photos of this vehicle in a studio, but the fact of the matter is that my backgrounds cannot cover the sheer size of this thing! so apologies for the quality of the overall shoots. Just to compare it in size, here it stands along with the 8129 AT-AT and the AT-ST from set 8038:

I hope you all liked this one. And I look forward to Legostein's MINI version of this vehicle !

As always, bigger pictures can be found here

And yes, more is coming!

[CMP]

Weirdest walker I've seen yet, but magnificently recreated here. It fits into the style of TLG's AT-AT and AT-ST perfectly. Fantastic work.

[lego envy]

Looks real awesome, if i could do this i would make it...A+

[wokajablocka]

That is an wasome custome creation. You have re-created this well with all the details packed in nicely.

[Huntleyfx]

Wow, that is phenomenal I love the trilogy of vehicles.

[382nd Legionnaire]

That's really well detailed. Good job, well done. It looks more of a chicken walker than the AT-ST does.

[Werlu Ulcur]

Frigintastic, simply out of this world!

Interesting to see how big you made it. From the renderings I would expect something smaller, something between the size of an AT-AT and an AT-ST.

[Cpt. Dan]

Such a strange concept but an awesome build nonetheless. The detail on it is excellent and I love the turret on the bottom. Great work very cool

[XimenaPaulina]

I always admire your unique and very well-built Fanon MOCs HJR, and it's really refreshing to see rarely-seen Fanon vehicles like this two-legged version of the AT-TE. Great work once again! (and extra points for the Imperial logo mosaic)

[Brickmamba]

lol never heard or seen the atse before, looks a lil top heavy, anyways very nice rendition, good job

[DFOL]

Oof... that's one ugly fanon design! It looks like a huge mechanical chicken with an Earth style tank turret stuck on top.

But fair is fair, your recreation of the model is spot on. And you managed to match the building style to that of the official releases of the AT-AT and AT-ST, so it fits in with them perfectly. Gotta give you a big compliment for that!

[Masked Builder]

That walker sure has some weird knees.... You did a great job of rendering it in LEGO! I've never seen it before but it looks good.

[Vicmackey80]

Beautiful, the best star wars MOC wich my eyes looking!

[Diaaabo]

The original model looks like an ugly made from an AT-TE, AT-TE and AT-AP, but it still looks nice :)

[let go my lego]

Nice work!! I like the fact that your version is not bow legged.